Game's great, but the installation process was hell. Buying the expansion made it impossible to play the game anymore unless I uninstalled it. The workaround was to download an unofficial autopatcher to replace the official one. It's apparently been this way for years at this point, which should only serve as a testament to Ubisoft's sheer incompetence as a publisher. They could choose to pool some of their resources into fixing issues like this game's installation process (on top of the always online thing) or Anno 1404's memory leak issue (which has STILL not been fixed in the History edition, which they charge 15€ for, and has replaced the original game + Venice expansion, delisting them), but they just choose not to. Hopefully, in the years to come, the people at the top responsible for all these messes will step down and let smarter people handle it.

Game's great, but the installation process was hell. Buying the expansion made it impossible to play the game anymore unless I uninstalled it. The workaround was to download an unofficial autopatcher to replace the official one. It's apparently been this way for years at this point, which should only serve as a testament to Ubisoft's sheer incompetence as a publisher. They could choose to pool some of their resources into fixing issues like this game's installation process (on top of the always online thing) or Anno 1404's memory leak issue (which has STILL not been fixed in the History edition, which they charge 15€ for, and has replaced the original game + Venice expansion, delisting them), but they just choose not to. Hopefully, in the years to come, the people at the top responsible for all these messes will step down and let smarter people handle it.