No sooner had the patch 1.1 available and thus DRM from Ubisoft disabled, I ordered already Anno 1404 here at Amazon. In the meantime I have Anno 1404 repeatedly reinstalled because I wanted to test Windows 7, and also because a new notebook was due. With DRM, this would not have been possible without contact Ubisoft. I would also therefore never bought the game with DRM.
Due to the more than 400 bad reviews I decided to express here a 5 Star Rating. The game is top and the price is okay.