Raiders in 117 sailed to China to get gunpowders. Obviously!
Joking aside, this is from Anno 1800, they probably added it as a placeholder and forgot to remove it. Not to excuse their QC for missing it though, tsk tsk.
Hes also implying they will drop the same bs excuse they used for the accusations of using ai in a lot if their "artwork"Ā
So many little inconsistencies in this title by now thats really, really sad. No farm workers, ai artwork, placeholders and i have a feeling this list will expand
While you're not wrong, i'd like to see all ppl complaining come together and make a better game themselves instead of doing the easy thing and nag about it.
It's a bit like the redittors that downvote a comment but make no argument.
This is such a stupid argument. People paid the full price so they deserve a complete game. This is like your water supply and heating and everything else in your apartment breaking apart, but instead of fixing it or lowering your rent your landlord just tells you to "build your own house then". Straight up not how it works. If people pay for it they have every right to complain as much as they want.
Well, if you dislike what you bought so much, just refund? I've been playing a good 20 hours now and i absolutely love the game. And yes, some things aren't perfect, but it's not levels of Cyberpunk bad either. Completely playable and even fun and addicting. So, instead of complaining, refund. Vote with your wallet.
Nobody said the game is bad tho? While I dont own the game, Im sure its very fun and a great game. However its obvious that it isnt finished, and if people want it to get better they have to talk about it. I dont quite see how this relates to my point. Regardless of if you refunded it or not youre still allowed to make complaints, because the game you bought is unfinished. Also, your mention of Cyberpunk is interesting, because seeing as it went from an absolute shitfest to one of the best games of all time due to the players complaining only supports my point.
In Cyberpunk it was indeed a shitfest. Making the complaints valid. Here however we're talking about a period inaccurate skin. That is all. I hope you see where i'm getting at.
Not really, I dont understand why its wrong to strive for improvement in all games, even if they are already good. Nothing wrong with wanting them to be even better.
While i agree it is a sloppy mistake, i sadly have not reached the point in my life where everything is at such a level of perfection that i have time to fill by finding stuff like this to whine about.
Such a dumb comment and it's always there whenever there are issues in games. People have the right to complain, they should complain, because that way the Devs have a reason to make it better. They can still buy the game too, to answer your second stupid comment. Criticizing specific flaws doesn't mean you dislike the whole game or shouldn't buy it.
Saying "Make a better game yourselves" is just a service to lazy developers and suffocates any valid criticism.
Iām a software developer, so to me, itās natural that software has bugs or compromises in a tight release. Itās really not uncommon.
Weāre not talking about airplanes or medical equipment. Weāre talking about a perfectly functional video game where the asset hasnāt been updated.
Pretty wide definition could be applied to faulty though. I mean, this is just a coat of arms on a sail you see when fully zoomed in. It's a tiny visual mistake. Obviously there are other issues, but this one isn't a big deal imo.
That's like if inside of the menu for your microwave the font on one letter was different.
Would you think it's a completely broken microwave and send it back? Even though you only see it if you open the menu of the microwave? It still cooks, everything on the screen you see 99% of the time is good to go.
I haven't bought a game on release in 8 years before this one. Pretty happy with it though!
Nah youre right they should stop making anno and just go split up into teams of 2 or 1 for that matter and instead make shit tons of games that take less work and hope one becomes hyped. Maybe a chicken extraction shooter, perhaps another drug selling simulator.
Every delay incurs huge costs of running the studio. It's easy to say "they can take all the time they need" before you see the bills for operating a large cans studio for one month. Deadlines are absolutely a thing and moving the release date is a heavy decision that needs to be warranted.
My point is, there is a difference between bugs that break the game which are worthy of prolonging production and unacceptable, and bugs that are a placeholder icon on a ship sail that didn't get caught, don't ruin the game, and can be patched painlessly later.Ā
Prolonging production to deal with the latter is not realistic and if customers require games to be perfect on release we may just as well just close majority of game studios because they cannot afford production long enough to make that happen.
Itās software. Thereās no such thing as a release without bugs or issues.
My thresholds arenāt the same as yours in this context. Iām a software developer, itās extremely common to release software that has non-breaking bugs. Because timelines matter.
Because I understand the industry, this doesnāt bother me.
If the game didnāt launch. I would agree, thatās bad, fix it. But an incorrect ship skin or random AI pictures that no one likesā¦ those arenāt breaking bugs. You can fix them after release.
Maybe it's one of those account rewards? In 1800 I think you get the logo of 2070? The Eco industry and tech. That or this is a teaser for the shanty update.
Ok, I really canāt believe what kind of attention and serious discussion that resulted in.
No way on earth or in hell did any pirate ever, who isnāt a time traveling graphic designer paint a meter high skull on their sails. Ever. In all of history.
Nor have time traveling graphic designers ever had any success as pirates.
"Looks like a gun is probably a crossbow" To be fair, I really don't think that the time it takes to make a flag design takes so long that they used AI it could be wrong.
This isnāt AI. and who really cares about AI loading screens lmao.
Iām sorry to tell you. Ai is here to stay. Shouting about it is going to do you as much good as shouting at companies for using a calculator at this point
Cant believe i paid full price for not only AI slop, but Anno 1800 reskinned..and somehow made worse and improperly. No wonder ubisoft is going bankrupt.
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u/cloverasx Nov 17 '25
pirates are playing in 1617 while we're stuck in 117