That’s not review bombing, that’s just leaving a negative review because the experience has turned negative.
They should direct their complaints at MS if that’s what broke their game, but I don’t expect the average Assassin’s Creed player to understand the difference.
Depends. Microsoft might be to blame indeed but I’ve seen several people saying Ubisoft has a habit of using undocumented non-public API.
If they’re not supposed to use it to begin with, it’s their fault when it doesn’t work anymore. That would certainly explain why it happens to almost nothing but Snowdrop powered games.
That’s not review bombing, that’s just leaving a negative review because the experience has turned negative.
What a stupid argument lol. Was this made by a 12yo?
“That’s not showering, that’s just you getting wet with tiny droplets of water”
And this is the ONLY game that this updated killed? If thats the case, sounds like a game problem to me.
I think it’s quite a few Ubisoft games that are affected. So kinda yes and no. But for me it broke Firefox and I had to roll back, so that update in general is just an awful pile of garbage
Knowing Microsoft, breaking Firefox was probably intentional
Seems to be other games too
https://www.techspot.com/news/105709-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ubisoft-games-fix.html
On another note being subbed to similar communities across fediverse kind of makes articles that popped up a day ago and sometimes longer show up again give me feelings of deja vu.
both articles seem to suggest that this is only (or primarily) affecting ubisoft games, which suggests that ubisoft might share some of the blame here. microsoft is very dumb for pushing out an update that breaks a ton of games, especially given how much they claim to love backwards compatibility. but ubisoft is also dumb if they are relying on undocumented APIs, as some of the other comments suggest they might be. microsoft already struggles to keep their documented APIs stable, so i can only imagine what happens with the undocumented APIs
The Resident Evil 4 Remake also doesn’t start with 24H2, there’s is a workaround to make it work though. Need to delete the CrashReporter.exe in the game folder.
ironic that the crash reporter makes the game crash on launch
Kinda random but it also broke Canon scan software
I know from personal experience it broke Star Wars Outlaws. Appears to have broken any Ubisoft games using that same engine.
I recall hearing about another game that was killed by 24H2, but I can’t remember which one off the top of my head.
Apparently Path of Exile 2 has very serious performance issues on Windows 11 24H2, to the point of being unplayable.
I know this is being played out like Ubisoft is getting unfair treatment here, but I’m going to be very unsurprised when the underlying cause is some bullshit DRM or kernel level bullshit that should never have been bundled with something as frivolous as a videogame
Definitely wouldn’t be surprised - MS have been making noises about reducing the level of access non-core Windows services get after the cloudstrike fiasco, and given MS’s patch stability lately, I would also not be surprised if something leaked out early.
MS working hard to acquire Ubisoft at bargain prices.
Don’t worry Ubisoft is also working hard to become a bargain to buy.
They are still on their obsession of NFT games that’s how disconnected they are from their playerbase.
There’s a ton of games with NFT from major publishers, surprisingly, only Ubisoft’s gets a shit ton coverage. Perhaps because they were dumb enpugh to publish as a first party, perhaps not. At any rate, It’s mobile fodder to hook wales, as a desperate company, Ubi jumped on the bandwagon to make some easy money. OTOH, somehow, it’s now fashionable to dunk on Ubi. That only happens with a significant amount of advertising dollars being sprinkled to create a narrative. Word on the street is it’s coming from Satya’s drive to monopolise the western publisher scene. It doesn’t surprise me one bit.
Can you tell me what “major publisher” released an NFT game recently? As in the last 6 months or even a year?
Also the most expensive “card” for this NFT game is supposed to be 50000$. So that’s also the insane pricing and pay to win model associated with that game that makes it particularly egregious.
But I’m genuinely curious to see those other NFT games recently published.
Straight from actiblizz, aka, Microsoft.
And that’s before mentioning King River Capital, an alleged MS Oceania investment arm that has been digging deeper than riotinto for a web3 success to sell to stockholders while avoiding the public scrutiny of demonstrably investing in web3. Xbox is happy to host most of their shitware.
OK so you didn’t find any NFT game by a major publisher.
I don’t know if you really like Ubisoft and you are gaslighting me or you just randomize your comment and throw random facts.
I focused on MS because it’s the object of the speculation here.
Others have done the same.
This FF NFT bullshit was released in early 2023.
Your original comment was about other major publishers releasing NFT games recently and you saying we were mean just to Ubisoft because
I checked anyway and couldn’t find any major publisher releasing that types of game in 2024. Only small NFT games from structures that are smaller than 100 people. Ubisoft has like 18k people working for them.
This update also stops Windows VR headsets (WMR) from working. They decided to remove the drivers from this windows version onwards (which is the only way to get them), so it turns them into $600 paper weights.
Glad I never picked one of those up and opted for the quest 3.
PC VR always felt janky to me anyway.
SteamVR really does all the heavy lifting for PCVR, even for Quest headsets since they relaunched Steam Link.
Yes I’ve used PC VR with my quest, but it’s not as nice as just putting the headset on and jumping into a standalone experience.
That sucks.
“Windows is better because it works with even several decade old programs”
So does Linux assuming its compiled statically.
In many cases, Wine on Linux is better for running decades-old Windows software than Windows 10 or 11.
This is why I returned Star Wars Outlaws on Steam. I couldn’t even get the game to start. Ubisoft has known about this issue for months now and continues to allow their PC games to be sold in an unplayable state. This is exactly the kind of situation class action lawsuits should be used in, too bad consumer protections are nominal at best in the US.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
