# Activision. What lies ahead for aoe2 **URL:** \ **Category:** II - Discussion\ **Created:** [September 24, 2026, 8:43pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/activision-what-lies-ahead-for-aoe2/289941 "2026-09-24T20:43:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 33
**Author:** ![Skadidesu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/skadidesu/32/172243_2.png) [@Skadidesu](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/Skadidesu)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 12:32pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/activision-what-lies-ahead-for-aoe2/289941/33 "2026-09-28T12:32:48Z")
> [@Xbox layoffs impacting AoE?](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/xbox-layoffs-impacting-aoe/287497/102): > > Live service games are games with a constant stream of new content, the new content is usually free and people are paying for other things (battle pass, cosmetics, loot boxes (gacha mechanics) and so on). AoE2DE (or AoE3DE, AoE4 and AoMR) are getting 1-2 DLC a year and only a tiny bit of new free content. That is very different. The time limited unlocks are definitely a thing live service games love to do but AoE only used it very little and has reduced it a lot already. The core aspect of c… I did write about that in another thread. > [@Crossil](#): > > Blizzard is Activision The merger did certainly ruin Blizzard but that doesn’t mean they are the same. The relevant part is that Blizzard were RTS experts at some point in history but Activision never was. Moving Worlds Edge to Activision instead of Blizzard is stupid. Activision has barely done anything other then CoD in the last 15 years. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/activision-what-lies-ahead-for-aoe2/289941)._