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Could not agree more.
Sadly, many AAA titles are rushed out today with little innovation to cash in on past popularity and little or no thought is put into making the new game refreshing and fun. I hope Anno doesn't make the same mistake. Speaking of Rome, Rome 2 Total War's launch was a disaster and it took months to fix all the major bugs. This goes to show that even with a popular setting like Rome, success is not guaranteed and the devs have their work cut out for them.
While the Anno series stands out as a relatively high-quality franchise, they will still not want to forego hundreds of thousands of customers on the world's most famous gaming platform. With that said, no steam, no buy!
Funny how Ubisoft flip flop every few years when they forget how detrimental it is to their bottom-line by excluding the biggest storefront of users.
Well, right now we're watching Ubi in panic mode so... yes.
However, Assassin's Creed and Outlaws is not gonna save them.
I'm seriously concerned for the development of 117 and even for the franchise itself. Ubi can't hold out much longer and Anno on Steam isn't gonna save them either.
It's not fun to watch the Titanic sink in slow motion, but yeah in the end they did this to themselves. They are the ones ignoring the iceberg.
Even despite all the controversy I will miss them though. I've been playing their games since the eighties. Let's hope for a miracle to happen (meaning a really good game)... but yeah, if they continue on this dead end road, it won't be for long.
Praying nothing bad will happen to the Anno series.
They didn't have to reinvent the wheel, Assassin's Creed like many other good game franchises they own have an already tested formula that works really well and people enojy playing them. Just shuffle characters and settings around, tweak a couple mechanics and there you have it, but no, they had to push politics into it and fill it to the brim with loot boxes.
The first thing any business owner will tell you is you never discuss divisive topics with the patrons, because they are, well, divisive. Talk about the weather and about french fries instead. Turns out attacking customers and forcing things they don't like in their throats it's not a wise business nor PR strategy
People needlessly bashing their heads in over other issues is just icing on the cake.
Still, people claiming that UBI is basically finished and crashing already are overly dramatizing the matter. The company is still running, and they're not just going to keel over and die any time soon.
The primary problem of AC is politics because it prevents the company to give their customers what they want. Every gamer of any gender, ethnicity or orientation is welcome of course, but that shouldn't be the major concern for the foundation of the game itself. People playing a samurai in feudal japan want to play as a japanese male warrior because of coherence and expectation, just like in odyssey, valhalla, origins and the trilogy they were greek, norse, egyptian and italian.
People buy games to sit back and relax not to be lectured or having their preception subverted/changed. And in fact this reminds me of a livestream for Anno 117 in which one of the devs said "people have this idea of Rome as very masculine, warrior like, very red, I want to change that"; Why? Why would you change that through a game? write a book instead on the historical reality of ancient Rome, I would read it, but it's not what customers want in their games, they want legionaries, togas, aquaducts and marble monuments.
25 years after being released Caesar III is still being updated by fans through mods, Rome total war 1 and 2 are still being played and modded by thousands of people after 1-2 decades, because they give players what they want. Other players might have other sensibilitiers and it's plenty of great games out there for them too, Senua's sacrifice, Life is strange, Gris, all great games, I own them all, but it's not that I'm expecting from a game with an historical setting. And that shows clearly that old games with the same old gameplay patterns and mechanics are not a problem if they are well balanced and engaging.
I played Anno 1404 and 1701 for hundreds of hours and I still go back to it, and I happily bought and enjoy 1800 too, meaning, that doesn't impact my future purchase of other Anno titles, in fact it's the opposite, exactly because I still play and enjoy older titles I like getting the new ones too because they have an identity, a recognizable gaming pattern but a different setting with a different sets of problems to solve and things to build.