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The Anno Brand Manager as well as myself, the Anno Community Developer, sitting in the development team in Mainz and sharing your feedback and ideas with the whole team, including production, game design, leads etc.

Many changes, bugfixes and the Free and Season Pass DLC are all based on community feedback, even though it is unfortunately not possible to implement or follow up on every feedback or suggestions from our community. We still appreciate every contribution and beside forwarding your feedback, our other developers are present here and reading discussions and feedback collections.

Anno 1800 is indeed the fastest selling game of the whole franchise, so nobody should be worried about the success of the 7th Anno game and the near future. Developer rarely just "cancel" a whole series and I think there is a bright future ahead for the series. About the 9, let's say this Easter Egg of a rule would never be a reason to stop something, we even said that if we want to make an Anno game where the "rule of 9" would not fit into the title, we would drop the rule. At the end, traditions are great and part of the success of the series but our highest priority will always be making a good Anno game above all else. That does not mean that we are not willing to try out new things or even depart from the series at least for a while but currently, a majority of the studio is working on Anno and I don't see that change too much in the near future.