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MasterOfTheTide
03-14-2010, 11:10 PM
I just bought this game and 2 of my friends did as well. There is a bit of scare that the activation process won't work, but they are unfounded from what I have seen. All 3 of us activated both products and played LAN and multi player just fine. The Anno series are some of the best RTS games ever made. I have 1701 GOLD and Dawn of Discovery GOLD on my steam account and cannot get enough.

Thinking of buying it? Go for it!

Note: Only bad thing is that if a new one comes out by Ubisoft with their new draconian style DRM I won't buy it :(
ZeroDarkHundred
03-15-2010, 10:07 AM
Game is awesome.

I was interested in The Settlers 7 but Ubifail's new cloud drm killed any interest I had in it.
Saolite
03-15-2010, 10:29 AM
I was going to get this game, but Ubisoft's new DRM crap is really making me want to not buy -any- of their games, wether they have it or not. Plus all the horrors of not being able to activate this game. Bleh.
exist887
03-15-2010, 11:36 AM
Game is awesome.

I was interested in The Settlers 7 but Ubifail's new cloud drm killed any interest I had in it.

It's ok, I've played the beta for Settlers 7 and this game is still better.
cisguy
03-15-2010, 12:58 PM
The game activated after I reallized the following. I purchased the DOD Gold. I checked the Serial Numbers or Product Keys on both Dawn of Discovery and DOD:Venice. They are clearly different keys. To play DOD, you right click on DOD:Venice and Click Play DOD. If you click on DOD and click play, it always launches DOD:Venice. No worries, Settlers did that too. However, DOD tried to activate with DOD:Venice Product Key, no go of course.

Everything worked as expected. The issue is on Steam where you launch DOD, it was using DOD:Venice Key, and of course that will not work for activation.

Regards, cisguy.
candu
03-21-2010, 05:42 PM
I have a question about LAN games. i currently have a copy of DoD but am debating if i want to buy Venice or not, all relying on the LAN capability. now i know with all games in the past you can play LAN with only one copy of the actual game and i would like to ask if that is true with DoD Venice? if you would know of this please let me know.
JosiaMFire2
03-21-2010, 09:32 PM
You can play lan with several PC's with one steam copy of the game. You just have to go into offline mode in the other PC's.