Anno 1800 Dev Tracker

Well, no one made the claim that Anno 1602 was a Ubisoft game. Anno 1800, on the other hand, is 100% a Ubisoft title, and thus qualifies for the "A Ubisoft Original" branding.

You are confusing first- and third-party publishing here. EA is for example the publisher of "It takes Two", which is developed by an external developer, Hazelight. So they are indeed "only" financing and publishing it.

Apex Legends however is of course 100% an EA game. Whose else would it be? Respawn is a fully owned part of EA, and all the people working on it are EA employees, just as it is the case with Anno 1800 and Ubisoft. It is literally the same company doing all the development that is also handling the business and publishing side.

Cheers,

Marcel

That is why Anno 1602 or Far Cry 1 would probably not be called "A Ubisoft Original" :) I believe the first Anno game properly published by Ubisoft was Anno 1404, with the previous games being published by Sunflowers, who worked with a wide variety of distribution and publishing partners around the world.

This was back in the day when games would sometimes have a different publisher per region, or even per country, while things are thankfully much more globalized these days (which means that Anno 1800 is called Anno around the globe!).

We currently have no plans to add support for DLSS.

It's something we are aware of.

There's no plans for new AI characters to be added, sorry.

We haven't announced anything regarding FSR-support for Anno 1800. We do however have a Game Update coming out this afternoon, slightly later than the usual time.

You can never watch Anno trailers too often!

It seems you are confusing some terminology (like publishing rights, which doesn't factor in here), so allow me to clarify.

Anno 1800 is of course 100% "A Ubisoft Original", just like every Fra Cry game since FC 2:

- Ubisoft owns the brands (and have since 2007, in the case of Anno)

- the games are (minus some outsourcing of course) full developed by Ubisoft employees in Ubisoft-owned studios

I sometimes still see a bit of confusion and inaccurate claims around this (like "Ubisoft is only publishing Anno"), but that is not true.

If a game being developed, financed and owned by a company doesn't make it their original game, I don't know what would :)

Anno 1800 was actually the first game to use the "A Ubisoft Original" branding back in February in our Season 3 trailer, so I am somewhat offended people didn't notice back then ;)

We will have more details on how we plan to release this closer to its launch this holiday season.

That's currently not planned, it'll very much be its own thing.

But keep in mind, we're far from having finished this little addon, so there still are open design decisions.

This will be smaller, additional game mode dedicated to this theme and mechanic. Not an alternative way to play Anno 1800, that would be completely out of scope for a Game Jam + considering we're planning to release it this year.

The former. Keep in mind, this is the result of a Game Jam and we have only limited time to develop this mode - for now we're busy with the remaining Season 3 content :)