Is this game worth playing despite all the Ubisoft issues?

[SwampDragon]

I bought this game a while back but was immediately put off by the Ubisoft hoops I had to jump through to start playing. Then I read the reviews ... It's being sitting unplayed in my library ever since.

I've enjoyed all previous Anno titles and it's time to scratch that itch again, but I don't have enough free time and head space to deal with launcher problems and getting locked out of the game.

Honestly now, is it worth it? Otherwise I will just fire up Venice again.

[dreammachine]

Publicado originalmente por dreammachine:

hey

is it better to get it directly from Ubisoft for their own Launcher?

cheers

I would really appreciate an option, as I understood it is a smoother experience to play it on Ubisoft Connect directly...?

thx

[admiral8q]

Publicado originalmente por Faded5:

The simple answer is Yes. This is the best city builderr i've ever played, last time i played anything close to this was age of empires II. it's not a coincidence that most of the negative reviews are people complaining about ubisoft, instead of the game, or gameplay. just haters. I'd highly recommend playing it and deciding for yourself, if it's fun or not.

Same here. I am getting almost too much into Anno 1800. Heh heh! It's as adictive (if not more) than the Civilization games. What I'm enjoying as an old-timer gamer is the pseudo "renaissance" merging with "Industrial age". Rather than medieval or "WW1/WW2" or "sci-fi future".

Those are fun, but I've overdone playing those style games. This is a nice change. Especially the airships as in a "what-if". :)

It has a HUGE learning curve. I'm most certainly not over that yet. But a bit at a time and it's more managable running a big empire in "real time" rather than turn-based.

(As for the ubi launcher. I have no problems with it. The only issue I would think is playing offline. Which you can do anyways.)

[Shadow Draxis]

I didn't read the thread yet but you can link your ubisoft account to steam and things just auto-launch. Haven't had to relog into ubisoft yet and i've been playing for about a month.