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 right this 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. “While 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 large ardour and love for the sport. However, 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 know that this can be a large disappointment, and plenty of of you had been excited for extra content material. We had been in a position to 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 had been hoping for.”
Details of the DLC had been by no means revealed, however manufacturing director Earnest Yuen stated when the announcement was made that it might characteristic two new civilizations “which have been extremely requested by the group.” He wasn’t cleared to call them, however he did supply a tiny trace:
(Those are the flags of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Denmark, by the way in which.)
The final growth for Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition, Knights of the Mediterranean, was launched in May 2022, and with this promised new DLC cancelled it seems like the sport will probably be successfully settling into upkeep mode: World’s Edge did not say there will probably be no extra DLC ever, nevertheless it did say it “will proceed to keep up servers, rotate civs by means of the free trial model, and supply Customer Support for any points you could encounter while enjoying.” Given that Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition is now 5 years outdated, I’d say it is a good wager that that is the place the studio places a pin in it.
