Back in the day when Ubisoft used something called SolidShield the process was even more fucked. I hope you come to understand how utterly broken the start procedure of Anno 2070 is. I don’t even know how this exactly works with Steam users, but I can imagine it doesn’t. Even if you manage to log in you will probably be asked about the key however your key might be linked to another account even though that account doesn’t have the game in their Uplay library. I put emphasis on key because that is our next hurdle. It is in my library, but I can’t use my account because the key is not linked to my actual Uplay account.
Now here is the fun part: I still own the game on Uplay. In my case it’s not my main Uplay account because it didn’t even exist back then.
You have to use the credentials of the account you used to register the game. If you choose your Steam credentials then you are also wrong.
#Anno 2070 game unrecoverable password
So what username + password do you use in Anno 2070? If you think you have to use your Uplay account then you’re wrong. Anno 2070 was caught up in the transition and somehow came out as an abomination where the login is more broken than Fallout 76 on release. But why do you have to log in to your account in Anno 2070? Some time around 2013 Ubisoft had the genius idea of switching up their entire account system. The login screen: You open a website, click the login button, enter your username + password and log in to your account. If you somehow did manage to convince Uplay to work for once you are now faced with the login screen. If you bought the game on Steam then you have to flip a coin and if it lands on heads you are fucked and Uplay doesn’t think you own the game. Once it’s done updating it will start the game which will start Uplay which will probably start the updater again.
#Anno 2070 game unrecoverable update
If that happens you are fucked because now the “Auto Updater” will try to auto update your game, even though it’s already updated. If you start Anno 2070 then Uplay will also launch and probably kill the process and start the Auto Updater. The launcher is a complete dumpster fire and worse than the League of Legends client. Back when Assassin’s Creed Unity came out, Uplay thought my saves were ephemeral, and I had to replay the first 5 hours of the game more than 13 times. I can not count the number of times Uplay had some error or bug that lead to me not playing a game. To get to the main menu you first have to start the game either through Uplay, Steam or by starting the Anno5.exe directly. So what do I mean with “you can’t fucking play the game”? Let’s imagine an obstacle course where the finish is the main menu of the game. It might suck that the multiplayer servers of your favorite game go offline, but you could at least continue playing the campaign or the community might start hosting servers. A studio abandoning their games is nothing new and often not a problem. Now look at this 10-year-old game that you can’t even fucking play and Ubisoft completely abandoned it. Why the game is unplayable #ĭid you think Cyberpunk 2077 at launch was bad with all the glitches and bugs? At least you could play that game and somewhat enjoy it. But the ratings reflect the current state very well: you can’t fucking play the game. This might seem weird considering I just told you how awesome this game is. If you never played the game and went on Steam you might notice it has a Mixed rating. I played this game to death, it is my most played strategy game and I have often look back at the fun I had while playing. The game released in 2011, and I bought the Königsedition, a special deluxe edition containing the base game, the Deep Ocean DLC, a poster and the entire soundtrack on 3 CDs, back in 2013. This post remains available for the sake of preservation and because it’s funny reading the ramblings of an angry person. This post was written before 3.0 and the proposed solution only works with earlier versions. Edit (Sep 2022): Update 3.0 has made this post obsolete.
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