A Redfall player has received a refund for the game’s canceled Bite Back DLC more than a year after the game and the studio behind it shut down. The Bethesda-published vampire team shooter was an infamous failure, with Xbox ending development on the title just one year after its release. While a lot of time has passed since that shutdown, some Redfall refunds are just now reaching players.
At launch, the FPS struggled to impress fans and critics, with many players complaining about broken AI and low-quality cutscenes. After several setbacks and consistently low player counts, Xbox put an end to Redfall‘s development in May 2024 and shut down its studio, Arkane Austin. As part of that closure, the company canceled all planned DLC for the game, though it seems to have taken a while for some of the resulting refunds to roll out.
Redfall Player Receives Physical Refund Check a Year After DLC's Cancellation
A September 22 Reddit post from user WestDraw3952 shows they received their Redfall refund as a physical check over a year after the Bite Back DLC’s cancellation. After news first broke of Arkane Austin’s closure, Redfall refunds began rolling out in June 2024, roughly one month after promising players who bought the DLC would be compensated. However, it now seems like those payments were only for digital refunds, and some players who bought physical copies could have paid in cash, which would leave them without a digital payment method for Bethesda to issue refunds through. WestDraw3952 may not be alone in receiving a late check, either, as another user in the comments said they also got their check in the mail recently.
This isn’t the first lengthy delay involving the ill-fated Bite Back DLC. Before Arkane Austin shut down, Redfall‘s DLC content was still missing after a year after launch, despite some players paying $100 for the version of the game that was supposed to include the Bite Back-exclusive features. Unfortunately, the DLC would never see the light of day, and while some users might’ve thought their refunds would face the same fate after so much time, the extra $30 has come to some players at long last.
Despite its disastrous launch and sluggish physical refunds, the game may still have some life left in it. Redfall may no longer have any ongoing support, but Arcane left its servers online and rolled out one last patch, which included an offline mode, before closing its doors. At least one gamer recently expressed that Redfall is still worth playing, with the patches and bug fixes that did roll through while development was still active fixing many complaints people may have had with the title initially.