If you do get Anno 2070 + Addon, get the ARRC mod and Annocokie And yeah, I don't care where it's on. But I have had a lot of bad experiences with uPlay and Steam and none with Origin so far.
And you should wait for the next steam sale, because Anno 2070+Addon is always a very good pack deal then.
.....it's possible to not have bad experiences with Origin? What?
Okay, this is basically what happens when I try to ponder that concept:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ7pUADoo58Steam though is the main one I dont get; I've been using it pretty much since it's been there, have some damn silly number of games on it, and usually attach every non-Steam game to it for the sake of convenience. Not once in all these years has it produced an issue, even considering my extreme impulse buying where I buy who knows what at least once a week or so.
Uplay is.... I'm not really sure, actually. I stuck it on there, it did... something... and I've never dealt with it since. My entire experience with it is the brief appearance of some sort of blue window for about 5 seconds before Anno loads. That's really all I see of it. I just ignore it beyond that point.
I wouldnt expect the requirement to be removed anytime soon. If anything, Ubisoft itself is actually getting worse. The next Anno game after 2070 was.... a craptastic dumbed-down freemium browser game. Just... what. It's not QUITE on the level of the atrocities that EA did to SimCity, but it's close. I've just ignored them since. If I know my big damn stupid corporate-idiot publishers, the Anno series may be outright dead after that, as the damn fools stand around staring into space, wondering what went wrong and why money did not violently burst out of their monitors the moment they published the game. Just like how EA has been doing that a few times lately. Ugh.