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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 30 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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 3 hours ago

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

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 41 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] syreus@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ubisoft sells cosmetic stuff in their singleplayer games.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] syreus@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours 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.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] bilb@lem.monster 1 points 14 hours ago

I was curious too, and... Avatar appears to have a co-op mode. Not really high stakes for cheating.