Planned Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition DLC Canceled

[Nomad76]

World's Edge shared plans in February 2024 to launch a DLC for Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition before the year ended. But come October, they pushed back the expansion's release to a "future date" with no set timeline. The studio has now scrapped the project, as they announced yesterday. The company hadn't shared much about the DLC's contents, production director Earnest Yuen had hinted at one point that it would add two new civilizations that players often asked for.

Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition last saw an expansion in May 2022 with Knights of the Mediterranean. Now that this new DLC isn't happening, the game looks to be entering a phase of upkeep. World's Edge hasn't ruled out new content, but they'll focus on keeping servers running, rotating free trial civilizations, and helping customers. "Whilst we will not be moving forwards with this DLC content for Age III: DE, we will continue to maintain servers, rotate civs through the free trial version, and provide Customer Support for any issues you may encounter whilst playing."

We apologize that we haven't provided updates to you since our announcement of the DLC. While considering the inclusions for last year's show, we wanted to ensure that Age III: DE players felt part of the franchise celebration as we know you have huge passion and love for the game. However, pushing to ensure that the game was included meant we announced content before it had been built, and we now feel that announcement was premature.

We know that this is a huge disappointment, and many of you were excited for more content. We were able to put out a patch for the game towards the end of last year but understand that it was not the size and scope you were hoping for.

Since Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition came out five years ago, this seems to show that active development is slowing down if not completely halted.

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[TheinsanegamerN]

So they shut down support for the original then cancelled the DLC for the replacement.

Bravo MS, bravo! WE all know the multi trillion dollar corpo couldnt manage supporting such an expansive task.

 

[Vayra86]

Games for Windows Live.

That is all, thank you

 

[tpuuser256]

So they shut down support for the original then cancelled the DLC for the replacement.

Bravo MS, bravo! WE all know the multi trillion dollar corpo couldnt manage supporting such an expansive task.

Not enough profits