Ubisoft’s PC woes have continued into 2025, with the widely much-loved Assassin’s Creed Origins struggling a review-bomb marketing campaign on Steam after a Windows PC replace rendered it unplayable for some.
In November, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 11 model 24H2 by accident killed Ubisoft video games resembling Star Wars Outlaws, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and extra. The difficulty was so unhealthy that Microsoft up to date its support website to disclose it has positioned a brief block on Windows 11 for customers with these video games put in.
“After putting in Windows 11, model 24H2, you would possibly encounter points with some Ubisoft video games,” Microsoft stated on the time. “These video games would possibly change into unresponsive whereas beginning, loading or throughout energetic gameplay.
“In some instances, customers would possibly obtain a black display screen. The affected video games are Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
“To safeguard your Windows replace expertise, now we have utilized a compatibility maintain on units with these video games put in. These units won’t be supplied to put in Windows 11, model 24H2 through the Windows Update launch channel.”
Ubisoft launched an replace to repair the issue in Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, however Microsoft and Ubisoft are each nonetheless working to kind out the Assassin’s Creed video games, and frustration has lastly spilled over into Steam consumer opinions.
Negative opinions for Assassin’s Creed Origins ramped up mid-December earlier than hitting a peak as we crossed into 2025, with the sport’s latest consumer evaluation ranking dropping to ‘Mixed.’ Overall opinions for the sport stay ‘Very Positive.’
Pretty a lot all of the latest unfavorable opinions complain concerning the Windows replace making Assassin’s Creed Origins unplayable. Until a decision is discovered, Ubisoft informed prospects to not manually replace to model 24H2 utilizing the Windows 11 Installation Assistant or the media creation device. If the sport stops responding, you’ll want to make use of Task Manager to shut the appliance.
Ubisoft’s Windows issues have hit the corporate at a very troubling time. The firm is reportedly in buyout talks with Chinese megacorp Tencent after a torrid 2024 by which it closed studios, shut down video games, and made mass layoffs. The firm’s subsequent massive recreation, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, was delayed into 2025 and Star Wars Outlaws failed to fulfill gross sales expectations.
Ubisoft’s shares fell to their lowest stage within the final decade in September after it made a sequence of dramatic bulletins across the efficiency of its video games. As properly as delaying Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Ubisoft introduced a return to Steam after a interval of PC launch exclusivity on the Epic Games Store, with Star Wars Outlaws lately releasing on Valve’s platform.
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