Everything is a lie! There is no free play at all! ! Such a malicious company has no credibility at all

Come on, FREE weekend ( Ubisoft connect: insert KEY )

Origineel geplaatst door Ubi-Thorlof:

That's what we added the map to the announcement for! ;)
The Free Weekend started at 5PM CET, so, you should be able to download and play for free for the next few days now.

How we activate the game in Ubi Connect?

Apologies for the confusion with the game asking for an activation key.

Please try starting the game via your Steam library's "Play" button and selecting the "Free Weekend" version there. This should resolve the issue.


edit: the issue should be solved now, and you shouldn't need the workaround anymore

does the free weekend contain any of the DLC?

I'm so glad there are games like Anno around.

Origineel geplaatst door Kooper:

does the free weekend contain any of the DLC?

Nope, only the base game. Our reason here is savegame compatibility: If you wanted to continue your savegame after the Free Weekend (with the version including DLC), you would also need to buy all the DLC used in the savegame.
Since that doesn't seem very fair, you will just need buy the basegame if you want to continue playing.

Of course, you can also buy any of the DLC, should you feel inclined to do so, and activate them on that savegame.

Playing a game must be easy!! insert coin and play.
This game requires to accept infinite licenses you wont read, requires to install ubi launchers, requires to make a ubi account with many licenses...
This is not FUN!!

Seriously UBI developers, make it easy.
EDIT: No i wont read those large licenses i dont know what your going to do with my data, i just installed this game and i got an email on my personal gmail??? wtf???

Unistalled, unfollowed, no more ubi,

Origineel geplaatst door Ubi-Thorlof:

Apologies for the confusion with the game asking for an activation key.

Please try starting the game via your Steam library's "Play" button and selecting the "Free Weekend" version there. This should resolve the issue.


edit: the issue should be solved now, and you shouldn't need the workaround anymore

Nope, Does not do it. Tried launching it a dozen times, keeps going to Ubiconnect to create an account. Thanks for wasting my time. No "free weekend" option comes up when you click play.

Origineel geplaatst door Nastytaters:

Origineel geplaatst door Ubi-Thorlof:

Apologies for the confusion with the game asking for an activation key.

Please try starting the game via your Steam library's "Play" button and selecting the "Free Weekend" version there. This should resolve the issue.


edit: the issue should be solved now, and you shouldn't need the workaround anymore

Nope, Does not do it. Tried launching it a dozen times, keeps going to Ubiconnect to create an account. Thanks for wasting my time. No "free weekend" option comes up when you click play.

It did for me.

I already had an account, though. When clicking Play, there was first a small pop-up to select free weekend or the other option (don't remember now), then it went to some screen where it asked to link the account to Steam so that the game was available, or something like that, then the game started. So you do need an account, but no activation key.


PS: By the way, when starting it again now (through Steam), it skipped the selection window and went straight to the game. Maybe you need to reset some cookies or ini-files or something to make the selection screen reappear.

Cannot play this game...no UBISoft account creation possible

Ubisoft connect only as admin possible. deinstalled the game, not for me

nice 1 hour of game play. next day can't login anymore as launcher is off. perma on for single player. at least i didn't pay money for that crap

So pleased tried free version as cant get to work - click on Start and get message "cef.cookie_manager_create_manager could not be located". Looking on Metacritic a lot reviews mark down as never got to work after paying upto $150

How does Coop work? My friend and I are new to the game but we want to try coop together. Do we share one empire or do we each get an empire to control?