In February 2024, World’s Edge introduced new DLC for Age of Empires 3: Definitive Version that was slated to be out on the finish of 2024. In October of that yr, nevertheless, the DLC was delayed to an unspecified “future date,” and as we speak the studio introduced that “after severe consideration,” it has been cancelled solely.
“We apologize that we haven’t supplied any updates to you since our announcement of the DLC,” the studio wrote on Steam. “Whereas contemplating the inclusions for final yr’s [New Year, New Age] present, we wished to make sure that Age 3: DE gamers felt a part of the franchise celebration as we all know you have got big 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 big disappointment, and plenty of of you had been excited for extra content material. We had been capable of put out a patch for the sport in direction of the top of final yr however perceive that it was not the dimensions and scope you had been hoping for.”
Particulars of the DLC had been by no means revealed, however manufacturing director Earnest Yuen stated when the announcement was made that it might function two new civilizations “which have been extremely requested by the neighborhood.” 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 feels like the sport shall be successfully settling into upkeep mode: World’s Edge did not say there shall be no extra DLC ever, but it surely did say it “will proceed to keep up servers, rotate civs via the free trial model, and supply Buyer Help for any points it’s possible you’ll encounter while enjoying.” Provided that Age of Empires 3: Definitive Version is now 5 years previous, I might say it is a good wager that that is the place the studio places a pin in it.
