In February 2024, World’s Edge introduced new DLC for Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition that was slated to be out on the finish of 2024. In October of that 12 months, nonetheless, the DLC was delayed to an unspecified “future date,” and at the moment the studio introduced that “after critical consideration,” it has been cancelled fully.
“We apologize that we haven’t offered any updates to you since our announcement of the DLC,” the studio wrote on Steam. “Whereas contemplating the inclusions for final 12 months’s [New Year, New Age] present, we needed to make sure that Age 3: DE gamers felt a part of the franchise celebration as we all know you’ve gotten large ardour and love for the sport. Nevertheless, pushing to make sure that the sport was included meant we introduced content material earlier than it had been constructed, and we now really feel that announcement was untimely.
“We all know that this can be a large disappointment, and plenty of of you have been excited for extra content material. We have been capable of put out a patch for the sport in direction of the tip of final 12 months however perceive that it was not the scale and scope you have been hoping for.”
Particulars of the DLC have been by no means revealed, however manufacturing director Earnest Yuen mentioned when the announcement was made that it will characteristic two new civilizations “which have been extremely requested by the group.” He wasn’t cleared to call them, however he did provide a tiny trace:
(These are the flags of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Denmark, by the way in which.)
The final growth for Age of Empires 3: Definitive Version, Knights of the Mediterranean, was launched in Might 2022, and with this promised new DLC cancelled it appears like the sport might be successfully settling into upkeep mode: World’s Edge did not say there might be no extra DLC ever, but it surely did say it “will proceed to take care of servers, rotate civs via the free trial model, and supply Buyer Help for any points chances are you’ll encounter while taking part in.” On condition that Age of Empires 3: Definitive Version is now 5 years outdated, I would say it is a good wager that that is the place the studio places a pin in it.
