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So Ubisoft will have the best reason ever to announce Season 3 Pass and we'll be able to enjoy new content even longer. Let's do this together!
External link →So Ubisoft will have the best reason ever to announce Season 3 Pass and we'll be able to enjoy new content even longer. Let's do this together!
External link →Dammit!! Is this post from some developer of Ubisoft!?
Was really hoping for announcement of a Season Pass 3, and a meaty expansion pack sized DLC with at least one more Asian/Indian themed session-this would have rounded off this Anno entry as an amazingly well-rounded definitive Anno game!
Given that games like Destiny 2, Division, etc. are seen as games as service, with a long tail of updates post release, I would argue that, despite Anno not being a massive multiplayer game, but rather a primarily single player/co-op driven sedate city builder game, Anno has carved out its own unique niche amongst city building games in the base building games genre and has its own set of dedicated fans, who will continue to gobble up any post-release content.
If the sales of Land of Lions bears this out, I hope that Ubi/BlueByte re-think its stance and potentially consider adding at least one other session, if possible, (alongside developing neglected aspects of this series like further variations of navies or maybe introduce land warfare to expand upon the military aspects or maybe update the diplomacy aspects of the game or have a scenario/mission pack dlc with unique scenarios similar to the ones present in Anno 2070 and 1404 scenarios with specific map templates, AI and difficult win conditions or introduce gigantic end game goals like specific session wise big projects and other end game time/money sinks to expand upon long term sessions with the game ) so that all major Euro/American/African/Arctic/Asian biomes are covered thereby making this the definitive city builder experience!!
Whether you count him as a developer is up to your own definition I guess, but that German post is certainly from someone who works on the Anno Dev Team and knows some things: me!
And yes, as stated in that German post, I see no possible scenario in which we would do another content-heave DLC like "Land of Lions" for Asia.
While you are right that there are extremely successful Games-as-a-Service titles like Destiny 2 (in which I have spent hundreds of hours, Warlock Life!), Anno 1800 is not one of them, and neither the game nor team structure were set up to support this title for years on end.
On the flip side, you can be sure that we have learned a lot about how to better support an Anno game after launch from 1800, and I am sure many of those learnings will be applied to future games from the team.
Sounds like a great plan, let's do it! My cats are always ready for more sales-based bonus treats as well!