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Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Update Kills Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and Other Ubisoft Games (www.ign.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As reported by VGC, Microsoft updated its support website to reveal it has placed a temporary block on Windows 11 for users with those games installed.

"After installing Windows 11, version 24H2, you might encounter issues with some Ubisoft games," Microsoft said. "These games might become unresponsive while starting, loading or during active gameplay.

"In some cases, users might receive a black screen. The affected games are Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Assassin's Creed Origins, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ubisoft sells cosmetic stuff in their singleplayer games.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Most of it gets cracked anyways though, but I guess lol shit reason for them but only explanation.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They only need to make sure it's difficult enough the average user can't be bothered to figure out the workaround. I'm sure without looking they made a considerate sum from the neglected children market.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

That's the truth, they wouldn't do it if they didn't make money off it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Only the ones that come with some ultimate edition, the store exclusive ones never do.