R6 Marketplace Status: Is It Down & When Is It Back?

The R6 Marketplace is down right now, and it’s been down for over five months. A backend exploit on 27 December 2025 forced Ubisoft to pull it offline, and the trading layer hasn’t come back since even as the game itself runs normally. You can’t buy, sell, or trade skins, and any Credits or orders you had open when it went down are frozen until it reopens. This page tracks the current state, walks the full timeline of what happened, lays out what Ubisoft has actually confirmed about the return, and tells you what to do if you’ve got value stuck in the system.

● Offline R6 Marketplace has been offline since 27 December 2025 Trackers like Stats.CC paused during shutdown Confirm against official Ubisoft marketplace once trading resumes

Is the R6 Marketplace down right now?

Yes. The marketplace has been offline since 27 December 2025 and remains down as of 13 June 2026. The rest of Rainbow Six Siege works fine ranked play, the in-game shop, Battle Passes, and operators are all unaffected. The outage hits only the player-to-player trading layer.

That split confuses people. The game came back within 48 hours of the December incident, so plenty of players assume the marketplace did too. It didn’t. Game servers and the marketplace are separate systems, and Ubisoft brought the game back while keeping the marketplace closed for longer security work. If you’re loading into matches normally but the marketplace won’t open, that’s expected it’s down for everyone, not just you.

What happened: the 27 December 2025 exploit

On the morning of 27 December 2025, players logged in to find inventories they didn’t recognise. Some accounts showed billions of R6 Credits where there should have been a few thousand. Developer-only skins, never meant for public hands, turned up in lockers. The in-game ban ticker which Ubisoft had quietly switched off in an earlier update started showing fake ban messages that hadn’t come from Ubisoft.

The cause was a backend exploit that duplicated roughly 2 billion R6 Credits across the game in a few hours. Within about thirty minutes of acknowledging “an incident,” Ubisoft shut down both the game and the marketplace to stop the bad data spreading.

Ubisoft restored game services within 48 hours, with a full transaction rollback that reversed the duplicated Credits. Players who received the phantom Credits and skins were not banned, since the exploit wasn’t their doing. The marketplace, though, stayed closed and it’s still closed today. Reporting from outlets like Engadget and Dexerto covered the shutdown and rollback as it unfolded; our What Happened to the R6 Marketplace breakdown collects the full account.

Full timeline

Date	Event
10 June 2025	R6 Marketplace launches in full alongside Siege X
27 Dec 2025	Backend exploit duplicates ~2B Credits; game and marketplace pulled offline
29 Dec 2025	Game services restored, rollback complete, no player bans marketplace stays closd
13 Jan 2026	Ubisoft confirms the marketplace returns “later in Year 11,” more info “in the coming weeks”
16–25 Jan 2026	Compensation window: players who log in get 10 Battle Pass levels, 4 XP Boosters, 1 Alpha Pack, 1 Delta Pack, and a “P10C” weapon skin
Mid-Feb 2026	Year 11 revealed at the Six Invitational, Paris
3 Mar 2026	Y11S1 Operation Silent Hunt goes live (Solid Snake guest operator) marketplace still down
2 Jun 2026	Y11S2 Operation System Override goes live marketplace still down
13 Jun 2026	Still offline. Return scheduled for Year 11, no confirmed date

00 Days

00 Hours

00 Minutes

00 Seconds

Expected return:

When is the R6 Marketplace coming back?

Ubisoft has committed to a return during Year 11 (2026) but has given no specific date. That’s the only confirmed information. Year 11 runs through 2026, so “later in Year 11” is a wide window.

The roadmap lists the marketplace’s full return as scheduled content for Year 11, without a date attached. Two of Year 11’s seasons have now launched Operation Silent Hunt (Y11S1, March) and Operation System Override (Y11S2, June) and the marketplace didn’t return with either. That leaves the back half of Year 11 as the remaining window, with community expectation pointing toward mid-to-late 2026.

A naming note worth clearing up: some early-2026 coverage tied the return to “Operation Twin Shells.” That was a Year 9 season from September 2024, not a Year 11 one the actual Y11 seasons are Silent Hunt and System Override. Treat any specific reopening date you see floating around as guesswork. A rumor of a 25 June 2026 launch has circulated on TikTok, for instance, but Ubisoft has not confirmed it, and unverified creator dates have been wrong before. Until Ubisoft says so directly, there’s no real date only the Year 11 window. The first place an official announcement will land is Ubisoft’s own Rainbow Six Siege news page and the @Rainbow6Game account.

What holders of stuck orders and Credits should know

If you had R6 Credits tied up in open buy or sell orders when the marketplace went down, those are frozen. Nothing settles while the marketplace is offline there’s no manual release, and no way to cancel an order or reclaim committed Credits until trading resumes. Your items and Credits aren’t lost; they’re locked in place, and they’ll be there when it reopens.

A few honest points:

Your inventory is safe. Every skin and charm stays tied to your account. The outage doesn’t delete anything.
Open orders are paused, not cancelled. A buy order you placed at 650 Credits is still sitting in the book, waiting, with your Credits held.
Third-party trackers are frozen too. Tools like Stats.CC paused their live price data during the shutdown, so any value you see quoted is a last-known reference from before 27 December 2025, not a current price.
Expect volatility on reopening. A long outage can spike prices on day one or flood the book as held sellers all list at once. Check live floors before acting once it’s back our R6 Marketplace Prices & Skin Value Guide covers how pricing works.

There’s nothing you need to do right now to protect what’s stuck no action lets you reclaim frozen Credits early, and any service claiming otherwise is a scam. The safest move is simply to wait for the official reopening and check your orders then.

How to tell when it's back

The fastest signals that the marketplace has reopened:

This page’s status banner. We flip it to UP and stamp the date the moment trading resumes.
Ubisoft’s official channels. The Rainbow Six Siege news page and the @Rainbow6Game account on X post any reopening first.
The in-game client. When the marketplace tab loads and shows live order books instead of a maintenance message, you’re back in business.

Skip the rumor mill. Creator videos and forum threads churn out “confirmed return date” claims constantly, and most are speculation. Wait for the official word, and ignore any site or message claiming you can trade “early” during the outage that’s a scam, covered in our Is the R6 Marketplace Safe? guide.

Can you still play Rainbow Six Siege?

Yes, fully. The outage is limited to the marketplace’s trading layer. Everything else runs normally:

Ranked, Standard, and casual matches unaffected.
The in-game shop (Bravo store) open. You can still buy current cosmetics directly from Ubisoft at fixed prices.
Battle Passes and seasonal content Operation System Override and its rewards are live.
Operators, Renown, Alpha and Bravo Packs all working.

The only thing you can’t do is trade cosmetics with other players. Pack drops, shop purchases, and progression all continue as usual, so you keep earning items you just can’t list or buy them on the marketplace until it’s back.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the R6 Marketplace down?

Yes. It’s been offline since 27 December 2025 after a backend exploit duplicated roughly 2 billion R6 Credits. The rest of Rainbow Six Siege works normally only the player-to-player trading layer is down. Ubisoft has confirmed a return “later in Year 11” with no specific date as of 13 June 2026.

When is the R6 Marketplace coming back?

Ubisoft has committed to a return during Year 11 (2026) but hasn’t given a date. Two Year 11 seasons (Silent Hunt and System Override) have launched without it, leaving the back half of 2026 as the window. Any specific date you see online is unconfirmed guesswork until Ubisoft announces it.

Why is the R6 Marketplace down?

A backend exploit on 27 December 2025 duplicated around 2 billion R6 Credits and dropped developer-only skins and fake ban messages into accounts. Ubisoft shut the marketplace down to contain it, rolled back the duplicated Credits, and has kept the marketplace offline for extended security work while the rest of the game returned within 48 hours.

What happened to my skins and Credits?

Nothing is lost. Every skin and charm stays tied to your account, and Credits held in open orders are frozen, not deleted they’ll be released when trading resumes. The December rollback reversed the exploit’s duplicated Credits but didn’t touch your legitimate inventory.

Will I be banned for the duplicated Credits I received?

No. Ubisoft confirmed that players who received exploit-duplicated Credits or skins were not banned, since the exploit wasn’t their doing. The rollback reversed the duplicated Credits across all affected accounts without penalising players.

Did the marketplace come back with Operation System Override?

No. Year 11 Season 2, Operation System Override, launched on 2 June 2026 without the marketplace. It remains offline, with the return still listed for Year 11 and no confirmed date attached to any specific season.

What to do next

The short version: the marketplace is down, your items are safe, and the only confirmed return window is “later in Year 11.” Bookmark this page we flip the status banner the moment trading resumes and watch Ubisoft’s official Rainbow Six Siege channels for the announcement. While you wait, get your account ready with our R6 Marketplace Requirements & Access guide, and read the R6 Marketplace Prices & Skin Value Guide so you know what your skins were worth before the floor reopens. Confirm any status update against the official Ubisoft marketplace directly.