Anno 1404: Gold Edition

There is enough about the game itself in the other reviews, so let me get to the biggest issue that is not mentioned enough here: The multiplayer is dysfunctional. Your online profile will corrupt randomly within hours of playing the game, making it impossible to continue a play session with a friend. Ubisoft support *in general* is able to restore that profile, BUT it will take them 2-4 weeks to do so. And the profile will get corrupted again within hours. Also Ubisoft will ask you for things like your account password and your cd key, which is ridiculous in itself. Unfortunately another great game ruined by a company that just does not care.

ANNO 1701 was an inferior game compared to its predecessors, and ANNO 1404 is pure spite doused in ketchup. Fetch quests in an economic simulator? Progression and strategy chained to cheerful NPCs and their bland exposition? Asking an NPC for permission to settle an island-type? Gag. This is not the interesting and open-ended gameplay of previous titles, it should be a cutthroat sandbox of supply, demand, and colonial war like 1602, and 1503. Now they all play like 1404 with change of costume. :( A very popular, but inferior game compared to its roots - you'll probably like it. I've "demoed" them all, but I can't enjoy this, or any title after 1503.

In general meaning I love this game. It's beautiful, nice sounds and music, gameplay, etc. I played this game years ago, now I wanted to back, especially when the price in last Winter Sale was REALLY GOOD (with big, nice discount). But I have a lot o problems with different buttons in game (here, with GOG version). When I pleyed this years ago with original CD I've nerer met problem with this. In this version in different time of playing I can't press random button. Once it is a buttons of buildings. Another time it's the button of marketplace which allows all population to level up. It's so annoying. Anyone have problems like this? Anyone may know solution for that? Anyway, this is still good game and I can recommend this :) Bast regards, fellas.

features; multiplayer and co-op That just aint true! I was hoping the game would have LAN but it only got leaderboards and screenshot sharing.........

I love the Anno serie and 1404 is maybe still one of the bests. But because this game is still only available in 32 bit it makes huge problems on modern systems. I have tried every 4GB memory path, every graphic settings and workaround with using DX9/10 etc... I have really tried everything but it still crashes in the endgame every 30-60min. So if you have a modern system with a 4K screen and want to play this masterpiece in "modern" graphic... forget it! The game will crash after a short time because the lack of memory... so sad. :( There are some reports that people are able to play it for a longer time periode with the 4GB patch but looks like this is not working for all systems. Had no luck with my setup in 4k resolution... and playing it in FHD on a 32" screen looks too horrible for me to accept. Win 10 Threadripper 1950x 32GB Memory GTX 1060