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

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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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[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago

Aren't all of these SP games? The fuck they need anti-cheat for?

[-] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

It's probably kernel level anti-piracy shit, but same results.

[-] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago

You know the cosmetics things that you could unlock using cheat codes 20 years ago in single player games ? You now have to pay for it. And they bloat your OS kernel to ensure that you don’t get those valuables skins without actually paying for it.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Lol yea long ass time ago, when crack engines where a thing or even console codes. The fuck....

[-] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

And a lot of the items were introduced on the initiative of developers without any coordination with Marketing team

[-] syreus@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

Ubisoft sells cosmetic stuff in their singleplayer games.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

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

[-] syreus@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

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.