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It is written at the top, of the giant full-screen ANNO 1800 logo where you press any button. Since the reveal of Far Cry 6, I think they want to insert Ubisoft Original in all of their own games.
External link →It is written at the top, of the giant full-screen ANNO 1800 logo where you press any button. Since the reveal of Far Cry 6, I think they want to insert Ubisoft Original in all of their own games.
External link →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 ;)
Sort of is, sort of is not. They have publishing rights but even Far Cry is a “Far Cry” from them being a “Ubisoft Original” since Far Cry 1 was built in a new engine (CryEngine) and developed by Crytek.
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 :)
Now i have to revisit that trailer again just to see it, dammit.
You can never watch Anno trailers too often!
That's pretty cool, i love what you did with Anno 1800, and I'm longtime series fan!
Is there any plans to maybe add an AI some season pass soon?
There's no plans for new AI characters to be added, sorry.
To clarify my position, which I agree now, is improper, is Anno 1602, the original first Anno, was developed by Sunflowers Interactive Entertainment Software. Ubisoft did indeed publish it as well as Sunflowers and a couple others. That was also my stance and conclusion regarding Far Cry, for it being originally Crytek property.
I see originality as the source of the original IP idea. But I agree, it’s improper and this was great insight! Thank you!
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!).
I was talking about Anno as a concept since the 1st game (which Ubisoft didn't add much to), which is far from an Ubisoft original even by the points you mentioned.
Just like EA shouldn't be able to claim that Apex Legends is their game. It's not, they just publish and fund it.
But whatever, your boss probably got some big money for letting them say that! xD
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
You guys are the greatest! The fact you are taking this much time to clarify this subject is outstanding! Thank you!
My pleasure :)