I will never buy a ubisoft game until I need to download their launcher to play it.

[reoba]

I thought to buy Anno 1800, but when I saw that I still need to download their launcher and register in it to play this game - a big No. And I am not alone. Tbh you just losing money and reputation by your poor, players-unfriendly decisions. I hope that one day this basic, very simple idea will be understood by ubisoft decision-makers, but seems like they prefer to see their company die in agony instead of be at least a little bit wiser.

[asterix52]

Over 4 million people disagree with you. Given it was the fastest selling Anno game ever, I don't suppose they will miss you

[Primigenia]

I'm sure it would have sold much more without Ubisoft connect truth be told, I bought it 4 years after release exactly because of the launcher, then one day I found it at -75% with all the seasons, so I grabbed it, but I basically paid 25% of the original price just because of the launcher

[DaveA1963]

I only installed Anno 1800 yesterday and I'm already having issues with the stupid launcher!
There don't seem to be any servers available to enable me to logon and it won't even let me play offline. I logged in successfully yesterday and saved my credentials, so I should be able to play it without a connection to the 'net!
Maybe everyone else has a permanent connection to the web, but we travel full-time and often don't have Internet access. Bit of a deal-breaker for me if I can't even launch the game.

[Mindmaker]

Same here.
I see the game on sale, but then see uPlay and think "ehh, there are other city builders out there".

[Eddie Plant]

I too am passing on the game due to registration and launcher.

[Eddie Plant]

Ubisoft launcher and registration HARD NO

Anyone know why they still include this garbage and why they force more than half of their playerbase to never buy their games?

[Gregomoto]

Yeah i know, they do this just to annoy you.

[Gregomoto]

Ok OP, thanks for letting us know.
Tbh just get over it, stopp crying, install the launcher and enjoy a really beautiful game.

[dan0812]

Originally posted by Gregomoto:

install the launcher and enjoy a really beautiful game.

That's fine, if the launcher decides to work on that particular occasion.

Many a time it has informed me it's "unable to authenticate" and not let me access what I paid for. Based on the Steam reviews, I'm not the only one.

[Tuxedo]

Originally posted by dan0812:

That's fine, if the launcher decides to work on that particular occasion.

Many a time it has informed me it's "unable to authenticate" and not let me
access what I paid for. Based on the Steam reviews, I'm not the only one.

And those are the people who are usually suffering from the well known
PEBKAC error, and here is an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_error#

This Customer here writes about errors with the Ubisoft Cloud and losing his
Save game twice.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198061573204/recommended/916440/

I never had that happen to me, and i'm not even playing the Game on Windows
thanks to Valve and Proton of course.

Being aware from the beginning that the Game is very time consuming, one of the
very first things i have done to research where the Game stores the local copy of the
Save files, within the Folder structure of the Proton prefix.

Thanks to all the lovely and helpful people on that "so called" internet,
it didn't took that long to gain that knowledge.

So i just wrote a tiny script for rsync, and every time when i quit the Game
i run that Script to synchronize the Save files to my chosen location on my Disk.

And of course i tested it twice before, if i can recover that Save file before
i started my legit session. And not to my surprise it worked like a charm.

Yes i know not everyone out there can be or is "Computer savvy" but i'm
convinced a lot of those negative reviews are simply based on lack of
Computer knowledge.

I was putting almost 480 hours in Anno 1800 so far, never had any issues since
day one playing it, nor any authentication errors, and i did and still do enjoy the
Game in all it's glory.

Well done Ubisoft and i stay on my opinion that you have
created a Masterpiece of a Game.

[Mindmaker]

Originally posted by Tuxedo:

Originally posted by dan0812:

That's fine, if the launcher decides to work on that particular occasion.

Many a time it has informed me it's "unable to authenticate" and not let me
access what I paid for. Based on the Steam reviews, I'm not the only one.

And those are the people who are usually suffering from the well known
PEBKAC error, and here is an example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_error#

This Customer here writes about errors with the Ubisoft Cloud and losing his
Save game twice.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198061573204/recommended/916440/

I never had that happen to me, and i'm not even playing the Game on Windows
thanks to Valve and Proton of course.

Being aware from the beginning that the Game is very time consuming, one of the
very first things i have done to research where the Game stores the local copy of the
Save files, within the Folder structure of the Proton prefix.

Thanks to all the lovely and helpful people on that "so called" internet,
it didn't took that long to gain that knowledge.

So i just wrote a tiny script for rsync, and every time when i quit the Game
i run that Script to synchronize the Save files to my chosen location on my Disk.

And of course i tested it twice before, if i can recover that Save file before
i started my legit session. And not to my surprise it worked like a charm.

Yes i know not everyone out there can be or is "Computer savvy" but i'm
convinced a lot of those negative reviews are simply based on lack of
Computer knowledge.

I was putting almost 480 hours in Anno 1800 so far, never had any issues since
day one playing it, nor any authentication errors, and i did and still do enjoy the
Game in all it's glory.

Well done Ubisoft and i stay on my opinion that you have
created a Masterpiece of a Game.

Are you really jumping through hoops to justify non-functional savegames?

[andoblock]

Originally posted by asterix52:

Over 4 million people disagree with you. Given it was the fastest selling Anno game ever, I don't suppose they will miss you

They may have sold over 4 million copies but if it wasn't for the launcher and Denuvo they have the potential to sell a lot more but UBI will never know how much they might have got without the launcher and Denuvo.

And i don't buy anything that requires a third party launcher.

[Chad Chungus]

Originally posted by asterix52:

Over 4 million people disagree with you. Given it was the fastest selling Anno game ever, I don't suppose they will miss you

thats not telling of anything. they might agree, but like the game so much that they put up with it

[Skorpius]

I wonder which one is worse, Ubisoft or EA lol, both should be nuked from orbit

[Malagon]

Originally posted by Skorpius:

I wonder which one is worse, Ubisoft or EA lol, both should be nuked from orbit

They're both greedy woke companies with no regard for their customers.