Far too expensive

[LauraSaurusRAWR]

When you lose customers playing Anno since 1602 (like me), because you sell DLC for 350+€ you did it wrong.

Ubisoft seems desperate to ruin every single brand they have control over.
Next Anno will be... 80€ for the base-game at release and 1500€ for some DLC thats so small that its not even worth 20€, right?

If you want to up your revenue, you might want to think about the pricing a few more times...

[Tankfriend]

The 5 Year Gold Edition is currently discounted at 49,99€. That includes the main game and all Season Passes (i.e. all DLC except cosmetics that don't matter for the gameplay).
Literally hundreds of potential hours of gameplay time of one of the best games in its genre.
And it's not going to be the last sale, for sure.

Now, if that's still too expensive in your eyes - do take a look at what other kind of trash games gets thrown at you for the same price these days.

[LauraSaurusRAWR]

Originally posted by Tankfriend:

The 5 Year Gold Edition is currently discounted at 49,99€. That includes the main game and all Season Passes (i.e. all DLC except cosmetics that don't matter for the gameplay).
Literally hundreds of potential hours of gameplay time of one of the best games in its genre.
And it's not going to be the last sale, for sure.

Now, if that's still too expensive in your eyes - do take a look at what other kind of trash games gets thrown at you for the same price these days.

I am absoutely with you on your last sentence. Didnt buy a full-priced game for years (apart from divinity original sin 2).

I did see that package. But I love all the make-things-look-nice-stuff. I dont care for the 30th island to pack a few factories onto that to produce more goods so I can build more houses to produce more goods so I can build more houses to produce more... (you get the point).

The cosmetic things (that are scarce / non-existing) in the basegame are what makes building interesting for me. And Ubisoft knows that. So they are trying to abuse this by putting rediculous prices on these DLC, even though they take very little to no production time.

[ElPrezCBF]

If you're into cosmetic stuff, then the best you can hope for is a sale. Unlike many other games, Ubisoft's DLC practice is terrible, not so much in terms of prices (as high as they may be) but due to their lack of dynamic pricing where you pay only for DLCs you don't already own when getting the gold or annoversary edition. This means that if you decide to just get the base game and a few DLCs to try it before committing to the full package, you would have to buy the entire gold or annoversary edition if you want to try more DLCs later on, assuming that would technically work. Otherwise, you are locked into getting all the season passes separately at much higher prices.

To complicate things further, the game recognizes Steam and Epic as official non-Ubisoft DRM platforms that make purchases from each platform unique only to that platform, even though they all require activation on Ubisoft as well. To my best understanding, these non-Ubisoft DRM platforms are redundant since Ubisoft itself should be the sole DRM platform but this doesn't seem to be the case. Consequently, if you get the base game on any non-Steam platforms, you cannot purchase DLCs on Steam and activate them on Ubisoft because Steam technically recognizes only its "version" of the base game.

If anyone knows better and thinks that what I said above is inaccurate, I'm all ears.

[Smokerbait]

Originally posted by LauraSaurusRAWR:

When you lose customers playing Anno since 1602 (like me), because you sell DLC for 350+€ you did it wrong..

No, this is an issue with the DLC page and how the DLCs are offered. You do NOT have to pay 350 euro to get the all the DLCs, and I'm not talking about Steam sales, either.

You only need to buy the top seven items on the list in the DLC page plus Deluxe Pack, and you'll have everything. Every other item below that is included in those top seven, they're just listed individually in case someone just wanted one DLC from a Season Pass, and not the others, or just one cosmetic item, etc. So, there's a lot of duplication on that list.

So if you just bought the top seven and Deluxe Pack, at regular price, you'd spend about 154 euro to get every DLC.

[Sunroc]

Grab the gold edition and you get the full game experience with all DLCs you need.
All other DLCs are just nice and cosmetics without any gameplay impact.

[Pumpkin]

wait until this guy figure out devs planning to make GTA6 payed per playing hour xD

[Merianna]

i wanna throw uppp

[Myst]

OH LOOK just so happens to be on sale now!

[Star Paladin]

Ya, I have been waiting years to get this, but, even at 75% off, that cost is ridiculously outrageous (I was thinking of the Gold edition). When are game Devs going to learn, being greedy only losses you money (I and friends would have bought this long ago if not for their milking). Instead we got Farthest Frontier and Timberborn.

[Myst]

Originally posted by Star Paladin:

Ya, I have been waiting years to get this, but, even at 75% off, that cost is ridiculously outrageous (I was thinking of the Gold edition). When are game Devs going to learn, being greedy only losses you money (I and friends would have bought this long ago if not for their milking). Instead we got Farthest Frontier and Timberborn.

LOL ok devs have to pay their bills and thats a typical price.... Not greedy at all compared to the amount of hrs into the game....

you just a broke ♥♥♥♥♥

[Mularkey]

Originally posted by Star Paladin:

Ya, I have been waiting years to get this, but, even at 75% off, that cost is ridiculously outrageous (I was thinking of the Gold edition). When are game Devs going to learn, being greedy only losses you money (I and friends would have bought this long ago if not for their milking). Instead we got Farthest Frontier and Timberborn.

*Golf clap

Run along then, with your Farthest Frontier and Timberborn

[Tasango]

Originally posted by Star Paladin:

Ya, I have been waiting years to get this, but, even at 75% off, that cost is ridiculously outrageous (I was thinking of the Gold edition). When are game Devs going to learn, being greedy only losses you money (I and friends would have bought this long ago if not for their milking). Instead we got Farthest Frontier and Timberborn.

Definitely not "milking". $15 marked off from $60 is a phenomenal steal, as this game is definitely worth the price (I own it on UConnect, not Steam, I just visit the forum for news). The price even non-sale is decent for the game at its scale level--not devs being greedy at all.

[Star Paladin]

Bend over more for the devs of current games then. We are not. You sound like shills.

[Myst]

Steam Level 0 .... Private Profile... yeaaaaah youre a troll

[Tasango]

Originally posted by Star Paladin:

Bend over more for the devs of current games then. We are not. You sound like shills.

Yep. Clearly I'm suffering from many hours of satisfied gameplay and happiness, instead of crying bitterly on a forum. I'm obviously one of the ones who needs to reassess my actions....