StabilBruder

I get the feelung that they are really putting some thought into this.

Unfortunately, that tempts me into buying Games I allready own.

It would be nice if we could use an online profile from the "old" 1404 in the new one, to be able to hold on to our old achievements...

Hey, so here’s how it works. You should still be able to use your old original 1404 profiles. The History Edition should just recognize your previous profile, and carry it over!

DarkDragonAC

What about "By Royal Command" and "In the Name of the King" expansions? Are they going to be included as well?

Only "New Islands, New Adventures" is included, as it is the official expansion created by the Anno 1602 developers. Back then you could often find semi-official (or entirely illegal) mission discs for popular strategy games in shops that had nothing to do with the original developers.

In the case of "In the Name of the King", I think many of those missions were created by community members, and published via a German PC gaming mag. I am myself not familiar with "By Royal Command".

But, in short, the History Editions will include official content created by the original developers that we own the rights to.

Hope that clears it up :)

DarkDragonAC

The Settlers IV: History Edition does include Community Pack though (fan-created single-player campaigns). "Im Namen des Konigs" is in fact from a different publisher but it was authorized by Sunflowers. Similar situation to The Settlers IV, that's why I was hopeful. Thanks for clearing it up.

I am not involved with Settlers, so I can't speak to what happened there, but Settlers IV was published by Ubisoft itself back in the day, so maybe that made things legally and licensing-wise easier for their History Edition.

These projects can be quite legally tricky unfortunately, as things were quite different back then than they are today.