Anno 2070 Update Preserving Features Even After Ubisoft Online Shutdown
Through the decades, city-building strategy games have managed to carve a loyal niche within the gaming industry with titles like Civilization and Age of Empires continuing to grow in popularity even today. Among the list of fan-favorite strategy titles include Ubisoft's Anno franchise. Recently, Ubisoft announced an update for one of its earlier titles, Anno 2070, that excited a lot of players.
Previously, Ubisoft stated that Anno 2070 would shut down along with online services and content for several other titles. Although the initial announcement stated that the shutdown was to happen by 1 September, Ubisoft extended online services by a month for some of these games. Additionally, Ubisoft Mainz, the developers behind Anno 2070 revealed that the game will be updated so that players can continue to play the game along with all of its features.
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As per the statement, the Anno developers initially tested its singleplayer components, special features such as world events and the Ark, multiplayer, and then eventually migration of player progression. Thereby, following an update to Anno 2070 fans will be able to continue playing past 1 September and «hopefully many more years to come,» says the development team. The announcement further mentions that the game will be in maintenance mode on 6 September at 6 AM UTC+2, during which player progression will be moved to the new version.
Whereas other older Ubisoft titles like Assassin's Creed will lose some of their content, Anno 2070 will retain player progression and all of Anno 2070's features. Further, the developers also state that the update will offer performance improvements to the game. Anno 2070 has been ported to
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