I looked up the difference between the two and found this ubisoft answer : Hello everyone, thank you for your question. The History Edition of the games are designed to run on Windows 10, whereas the previous Gold editions of the games may not have natively supported Windows 10. The online servers should work for games that are History Edition versions, the Gold edition versions of the game, may not be able to connect to our servers now, this would be the case for Settlers 7 as it features on our retir...

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I want to have access to the dlc gold edition maps, but the server is down and I can't, what should we do?

Where can I find the screenshot folderpath from S7 gold edition?

Steam will not let you review it to warn others away until you play it. You cannot play it because the packaged installation is broken. Steam knows this and continues to try to sell it to people. You can spend a few hours finding a way to finally get it