I love the Anno series of games. I love the art style and the game mechanics involved in city building. The combat systems are a bit rough, but I normally turn those off. The real challenge for me in those games are building a stable trade web between multiple islands.
Despite my love for the series, I haven’t and won’t be buying Anno 2070. I want to, I really do, but I think it’s asinine of Ubisoft to include their patented must-be-online-POS-DRM in a single player game that’s available through Steam. Why on earth I want to deal with two layers of DRM? Especially when the one layer that’s not needed and offers zero incentives isn’t even managed properly.
Ubisoft never disappoints me.
“Gee, everyone, we’re sorry that you can’t play the game you bought! Don’t worry, it shouldn’t happen very often!” – what I imagine UbiSoft is saying.
I agree. I think Steam is DRM enough, why the need for more?
Have to agree, Ubisoft has gone over the deep end with this one.
They’ve been in deep water for a while now, but don’t seem to care much.
Jaye – My guess is it’s too much work (in their opinion) to pull their DRM out of the game for the Steam version. Delusionally, they probably see it as a bonus.