Anno 117: Pax Romana

It is not perfect and you have to lower your expectations a bit if you expect Anno 1800 plus DLC worth of content. But there is enough fun to be had to warrant a recommendation from me.

Ubisoft account login is is a cluster frustration, refunded this "game" with a angry mood. Bah

Trying to connect to Ubisoft is like trying to pull your own teeth. Very painful, very sporadic, always frustrating. Typical 20-30% success rate...

Its just a lackluster of a game. Does not compare to the other Anno's at all (wtf was that campaign?).

The game itself is well made and addictive. I found the campaign dragged on a bit and wasn’t a fan of the story / dialogue, but sandbox mode is exactly what I wanted in building cities, managing production, and figuring out systems. Unfortunately, Ubisoft Connect DRM makes the game unreliable to launch. I’ve had multiple instances where it would not start while using VPN, even though I was freshly logged into Steam, Ubisoft Connect, and Ubisoft’s support site. Ubisoft’s connectivity page for my game showed launch attempts hitting their servers with matching timestamps, so this does not appear to be an authentication issue. It's more like Ubisoft doesn't want customers encrypting their own data with a VPN. Which is ridiculous. Changing VPN servers does not consistently fix it, and the troubleshooting results have been inconsistent. The game has worked on VPN before, failed with VPN on, failed after toggling VPN off/on, then suddenly worked after repeated attempts. One time logging into Ubisoft website before game launch seemed to resolve it. I know there's at least a VPN issue because after turning VPN off tonight, game launched immediately. Turned VPN back on while game's open and get a connectivity lost error. All other websites were working fine through same VPN connection. Bottom line is the launcher/DRM blocks paying customers from accessing the product they bought. Great game with frustrating DRM. I enjoyed the actual gameplay, but I would not buy it again in current state.

Its a fun game but Ubisoft connect is the worst and ruins it. I can't even play it at all sometimes cause I just gett an error that tells me to try again later and even when I get it to work sometimes it just crashes randomly.

"This product cannot be activated right now, please try again later". I bought this game Ubisoft, thx...

This is the first anno game that I have to give a thumb down. It is very buggy almost one year after release, and the game looks good, but lacks charm of the previous anno games. It is sad to to see the fall of a franchise.

Mit unzähligen Stunden in Anno 1602, 1503, 1404, 1701 ist Anno 117 echt eine herbe Enttäuschung. Es fühlt sich beim Spielen einfach unfertig und instabil an, ständig bleibt irgendwas hängen weshalb man einen Spielstand neu laden muss, was dann ewig dauert. Brennt es in der Siedlung ist das Feuer auch dann noch zu hören, wenn die Gebäude neugebaut und aufgewertet wurden. Schiffe werden spontan zu Unsichtbaren Bootmobilen und die Geschichte hat mich nach gut 4 Stunden noch nicht wirklich überzeugt. Ich würde ja sagen, schade, aber mittlerweile muss man bei Publishern wie EA, Ubisoft und anderen großen Namen ja echt aufpassen, dass man keinen Sack mit Schei** bekommt. Geldgierige Konzerne, die nur veröffentlichen wollen und dann einen unfertigen Titel für 60€ anbieten. Lichtblick ist da nur, dass es ein paar interessante neue Features gibt, nichts was einen krass umhaut. Das neue Zeitalter ist eine nette Idee. Was hinzu kommt, ist dass die neuen Grafikmöglichkeiten das Spiel echt überlasten, permanent muss irgendeine Textur nachladen und man erhält deutlich sichtbare Brüche im Spiel.

a game made for DLCs, feels very shallow.