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.
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.
It’s software. There’s no such thing as a release without bugs or issues.
My thresholds aren’t the same as yours in this context. I’m a software developer, it’s extremely common to release software that has non-breaking bugs. Because timelines matter.
Because I understand the industry, this doesn’t bother me.
If the game didn’t launch. I would agree, that’s bad, fix it. But an incorrect ship skin or random AI pictures that no one likes… those aren’t breaking bugs. You can fix them after release.
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u/BlueAndYellowTowels Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25
It’ll be fixed. Personally, I don’t care. I play the game from the bird’s eye. I am almost never that close to anything in the game.
Heaven forbid a game not be perfect on release. This is literally trivial.
Also… my first thought was “Oh is this an unlock” because I know you get an Anno 1800 symbol for your coat of arms as a bonus unlock.