Microsoft and Bethesda Offer Refunds to Redfall Players for Unreleased Content
Buyers of Redfall: Bite Back Edition are receiving refunds for purchasing the game. This is the result of unfulfilled promises after the game's development was finished.
The studio's final title can now be officially considered a failure following the shutdown of Arkane Austin. Microsoft is offering full refunds to buyers of Redfall in the Bite Back edition, which is especially noteworthy. This happens automatically on Xbox Series X/S (via Jez Corden on X), but Bethesda also grants refunds on PCs, although it takes more time.
The basis of this decision is simple: purchasing the Redfall: Bite Back Edition provided access to a pass, which in the future was supposed to enrich the game with two new characters and other digital additions. However, even after the release of the final update at the end of May, these commitments were ultimately not fulfilled. So the buyers didn't receive everything they paid for.
Redfall hasn't received all the promised content. Source: Bethesda.
The failure of Redfall wasn't a big surprise after the problematic premiere, but it was still a big disappointment for fans of Arkane studio. In this context, no one was surprised that the Arkane Austin team responsible for the game was another victim of Microsoft's large layoffs, and one of many studios that contributed to record layoffs in 2024.
