Anno 1800 Dev Tracker

I'm gonna do a pro move and quote from our blog from December 2022:
"While we do not have anything concrete to announce at this point, given the popularity of Anno 1800 it should not be a surprise that we are working on the future of Anno."

This statement is still true.

No idea where you read that, but there are no such plans. We (and other Ubisoft games) only returned to Steam in late 2022.

There are absolutely no plans to remove Anno 1800 from Steam.

And regarding the subscription topic: This comment was solely related to subscription models (Ubisoft+ specifically, Ubisoft's subscription service) and has absolutely nothing to do with games that were purchased "normally".

Thank you!

Expecting at least weekly updates on your city

Anno 1800 was far too successful to be the last Anno ever ;)

Not really, or at least it's not something that I remember us receiving reports about in recent times, sorry :/

Hey, as I wrote above, we're aware of the sentiment you (and others) shared, but due to the technical limitations, this is nothing that will be implemented for Anno 1800.

This little ad was produced for Season 4's third DLC (New World Rising), see the mentioning of Manola and electric scooters, back in 2022.

We (and Ubisoft as a whole) are focusing on the key languages which - from our experience and data - make up the majority of our player base and/or are relevant in specific regions (and unfortunately, Brazil is nowhere near the top 5, I'm not sure where you're taking your data from).

As fhackner3 said below, we have read the feedback regarding a PT-BR localization for future projects and will keep that in mind, but there are no plans to add more languages to Anno 1800.

Well, "next" project as in "the next one to release". So, yes, for us it's "current" and for all of you it's "next after Anno 1800" :P

The thing is: if we had done a Season 5 (design and technical considerations aside), any news on our next project would have been delayed even further.

Thanks for that reply after a year. A random stranger trying to educate me about Anno 1800’s development was just the laugh I could use today ;)

Exciting news, let me tell the team.

Thank you, Pop317, those types of comments are always great to read for us and very touching. Knowing our game provided several hundred hours of fun to people is fantastic!

Those types of threads are my favourites

While more work, we generally favour handcrafted worlds since they allow us to create a more special set of islands and balance them more in-detail. It's not very likely that we would go for a procedurally generated approach instead.

There are definitely some technical and design limitations to consider, but we also wanted to move on to a new project, yeah - and full development on a new game and large DLC for the previous game at the same time is out of scope for a team our size.

Didn't watch the whole stream but was very impressed by the mod already. Big fan of changing things up from how people play 1800 for years now - both with the seasons mechanic as well as all the rebalancing.

This mod might actually make me start a new game eventually, when it releases. Maybe even with another dedicated modding livestream from Mainz? We shall see.

Great stuff, my compliments to Taubenangriff and everyone else who worked on "New Horizons"

Heya!

Interesting topic, and with the amount of time spent looking at islands, I totally understand having even more variety available.

As some others have mentioned, there are existing modding projects (e.g. by Taludas) to reskin islands for another biome.

From our side, however, there won't be any new island models for Anno 1800. The process for creating an island takes a while and involves multiple departments, it's definitely only higher effort side of things. Plus, going by the comments, one or two islands likely wouldn't quite cut it (and islands would not classify as "cosmetic" content, they are one of the key gameplay elements of Anno).

Far more importantly, however, is, that we are at this point investing our development resources into our next project. That is our top priority.

So, I'll have to shatter any dreams of a map pack DLC, I'm afraid.