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Anno Online
Released On: Jul 1, 2015
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4.4
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User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
4.4
23% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
31% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
46% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
4.4
23% Positive
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
31% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
46% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
A very relaxed browser-game with good in-game mechanics and economy. Relaxed, because you do not have to worry about other players will attack you during the night or away-times like in most browser-based strategy game. The user interaction are only beneficial. Even after years there is space for development or growth. This is my favorite browser-based strategy game.
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For a free to play game it is surprisingly free of the usual constant attempts to get you to pay for crucial "Extras" needed in other similar games in order to progress.
I must have played at least 40 hours and never found the need to pay for anything.
As for the game it's pretty much a game for patient players,with lots to do and a constant target to aim for.
A bit daunting at first but the longer you play the more things become clearer.
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On an over all scale of 1 to 10, I rate this game a 5. This is coming from someone that has played this game extensively and spent a good deal of real money on it over 2.5 years time since the game went into open beta on May 14, 2013. So here is the Good, the Bad and The Ugly ...
The Good:
* You can play for free the core of the game including reaching 4k imperials and unlocking all required buildings.
* The community is generally nice and helpful (at least on the U.S. server and this is the only server I can recommend from personal experience). I believe the helpfulness comes from the fact that many players are older and more mature in their dealings with people in general (or it could simply be because the game is so slow that they help others to keep themselves busy). Truthfully the only reason I kept playing the game past a month or so was from my liking of the people in general, not the game itself.
The Bad:
* You can play for free but please note that as a free player it will take you many months to do this and you will spend 99% of your time waiting for this and that to happen.
* This is a Ubisoft/bb game. They endlessly try to sell you 100% of anything that exists in the game without telling you you can earn those things for free (mostly). I suppose there is nothing wrong with this but be careful what you spend rubies on.
The Ugly:
* This game is generally laggy and unstable. For example many cannot even load the game without sitting at loading screens for up to 5 min or longer with nothing seemingly happening (this happens to me regularly).
* Zone Locks. Anno online has some issues they have never fixed since the start of the game nearly 3 years ago. One of those are Zone Locks. It is possible for your game for no reason to zonelock. This
means it had a critical or wild error and it "temp" locked. It might unlock, but I have seen in some cases where they are never ever fixed and although they "Might" give you some rubies, the months of time you spend doing things will all be lost permanently, and the pay back (if you get any) in rubies will not be at all fair.
* The game is filled with bugs that have also been around since pretty much the life of the game. Ubisoft/bb does not fix most bugs ever.
Additional notes of importance:
* Ubisoft bought this game in it's completed state as a builder but ubisoft never did anything to improve or add more "building" to the game. In 2.5 years all they have done is add Monuments (each 1 building takes about 1-2 months to build) so this is not building in any true sense. Also they have events in which you can spend a week doing pointless stuff (all of which will be deleted at the end of
the event) and your reward? Maybe 1 or 2 buildings which are only slightly better than the ones you can build for free.
* Finally, this has nothing to do with the original Anno series of games (which are all great games by the way). It looks like the old Anno series games but that is just artwork made to resemble the original games.
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Constantly scamming store made people buy things and not get them because item description was hyped, or there was a hidden cost increase when buying many of something so you'd need 3 transactions to even know what the price is --- and some people went for it not to lose the transaction. The worse scam was the "huge holidays only" island, which was only a large (you can get better for free whether you want ressources, ship port slots, or building space). The game periodically made the winning strategies having to be done in less and less days, until it was no longer possible to install a maxxed city on a huge island unless you spent 4h in a row doing nothing else but mindless clicking to a pre-determined plan available from unofficial walkthrus --- or lose your effort completely. The events frequently promised something that would make buying rubies super advantageous, but once you bought a huge island and installed for it --- the "milk to chocolate" event was cancelled and you lost your money to something with only very marginally better use than free stuff provided you'd stick around at least one year to break even on it --- with the game closing 6 months later for people who attempted it. OVERALL they utterly destroyed everything good about the Anno experience as previously brilliantly done in single player games. Also more recently they moved the game to mobile where mobile-only users are scammed and hating the events being nerfed after ruby buys ALL OVER AGAIN BECAUSE IT'S PART OF A PLAN. Avoid --- play the single player versions if you want a REAL game.
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The game progresses very slowly compared to other games like it. People get "zone locked" and often there is nothing to be done. That means instead of reaching certain levels and opening up new land, there's a glitch and you are unable to use that land. This really hampers you. If you buy in-game currency, it will take 4 - 8 months for the in-game ruby cutter to make it all available to you. The game is littered with clickable boxes that will make you spend rubies {super rare to get free rubies}, if you put a finger wrong.
The game is glitchy and I have a year old, very fast pc. It lags badly, the ship battles are horrendously glitchy.
I asked a mod about buying rubies to speed up the game play, they told me I should and never mentioned the 8 month wait to use the large bag of rubies.
It's near a scam playing that game.
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Summary Based on the critically acclaimed, award-winning franchise, fans now can experience all the strategy, simulation and highly-detailed animation and graphics the Anno series is known for in a free-to-play, browser-based game. Players can build and develop big medieval cities using the detailed economic system enjoyed by Anno fans. As they...
Platforms:
- PC
Initial Release Date: Jul 1, 2015
Developer:
- Blue Byte
Publisher: Ubisoft
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