The Steam reviews of Assassin’s Creed Origins are plummeting – but the responsibility lies not with Ubisoft, but with Microsoft.
Ubisoft doesn’t have an easy time of it these days. Because the publisher is actually not to blame for the current review drama surrounding Assassin’s Creed Origins – even if malicious gossipers can now claim that this circumstance is the exception rather than the rule.
The problems with the annual 24H2 feature update, which was released for Windows 11 a few weeks ago, continue. While a good portion of Ubisoft games have since been saved, three titles from the Assassin’s Creed series are still affected.
Both Odyssey and Valhalla still don’t work if you have Windows 11 24H2 installed. Assassin’s Creed Origins is also affected and is currently feeling the frustration of the gaming community.
- On the official Steam page for the Ubisoft game, the ratings are currently plummeting. In the past 30 days, only 61 percent of the approximately 2,500 reviews submitted have remained positive.
- To put this into perspective: in the eyes of Steam reviews, Assassin’s Creed Origins is doing well with around 85 percent positive ratings and almost six figures of reviews.
Many of the comments these days criticize exactly the Windows problem mentioned at the beginning. The game would only run up to the start menu at best, before it inevitably crashes.
The fact that the cause can be found in the 24H2 update, as the Microsoft developers themselves have already confirmed, is only mentioned in a very few of the reviews.
The situation around the AC games is currently a hot topic of discussion on Reddit as well:
Windows 11 24H2 crashes Assassin’s Creed Origins, Steam ratings drop as users rage
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Aside from the fundamental dissatisfaction with the 24H2 update for Windows 11, possible causes are also being discussed:
- It is considered rather unlikely that it is related to the copy protection. Despite all the dislike for Denuvo, other games with the same DRM are not affected.
- Instead, another theory is gaining traction: the changes that Microsoft made to DirectX and DXGI (“DirectX Graphics Infrastructure”) in the course of 24H2 are being targeted as a fundamental problem.
- If this is the cause, it would also explain numerous other problems that have been rampant in the context of video games since the arrival of Windows 11 24H2. These include the faulty AutoHDR function and problems with the popular Steam app “Lossless Scaling”.
