Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition DLC News

To our Age of Empires III Explorers,

Last year as part of the New Year New Age event we announced another DLC for Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition. After serious consideration, this DLC has been canceled.

Please understand, this decision was not made lightly.

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.

It has been a joy to bring Age of Empires III into the modern day with the Definitive Edition and all the content we’ve added since launch in October 2020. We hope you continue to enjoy everything it has to offer. Seeing what content our community creates is a fantastic part of working on this franchise and our modders continue to surprise us. You can browse here: Age of Empires III: DE mods

Whilst we will not be moving forward 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.

The Age of Empires team

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Can’t forgive the zero communication, you guys took this way too far and remedying it was so, so simple. Do the bare minimum, do better. Still, thank you for something rather than nothing at all in perpetuity, I guess?

Can you tell us more about what the customer support aspect you’ll be providing?

Are you saying you’ll just fix existing issues here and there at a slow pace and not provide any more real patches, balance updates, etc.?

Will you even be looking at this thread and replying actively after this post? Just so we know if we’re completely wasting our time or not, you know, given your communication history and all.

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If they stopped work on DLC only to work on AOE4 next DLC and this DLC will not the biggest DLC in the AOE history there’s probably something wrong in the head of World’s Edge

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Your way of pushing inclusion of this game is an open humiliation and a huge s**tshow for a whole year?

Oh you know this you know that you know so much you know everything. DO YOU REALLY CARE?

Let me tell you what you really know: you know it is a lie from the very beginning

Who said they will improve communication? Who wrote a long essay in discord saying you care so much about this game and its community? Want to fool us twice?

Tell your boss and your communication team, they can go to h**l. Wish they lose their jobs.

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Thanks for the sad update. It’s understandable since you have a lot of work ahead of you for your games. I joined the community not too long ago (used to play AoE II in early 2000s but I bought the 4 games a few weeks ago) and I find that this 3rd game has a lot of features and story. I don’t know what happened before with communication and all that I hear about this.

It doesn’t really need much except a few more settings, optimization, and such just like AoM Retold. To be honest, AoE 3 is just better than AoE 2 in almost every way. I don’t understand why you’d keep supporting the second one and not this one.

I hope you can keep focusing on AoE 4 now and add a lot of settings, features, gameplay, in-game compendium, and such, as that game needs a lot more to be complete.

And, yeah, please stop with the inclusion in all your games. It’s a huge turn off and I won’t be supporting that agenda.

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I will not accept an apology this time. They have never respected this game and its community. They have always deliberately wanted to harm it and this confirms it.

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Yes, it’s all strange… although deep down I saw it coming, there was no info about the DLC and this was the final blow for AoE 3… I’m depressed and distressed, I’m crying inside… AoE 3 was my first RTS and seeing it die again is devastating…

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Wish you guys a big success with your new products btw.
https://steamdb.info/app/1934680/charts/
https://steamdb.info/app/933110/charts/

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Will uninstall AoE2 from disk… I also advise you peoples to show them the same respect they show us.

And I demand my money back from WE scammers for AoE 2 crap and dumb DLCs from this s*it!

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Don’t worry, AOM is probably going to get the axe soon.
World’s Edge only cares for one game

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Does that data show us who play on Windows version/Xbox? If not, then the numbers must be higher for all those games.

AoM will probably have the Chinese DLC abandoned - no refund from WE.

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Sad, I have played ~40 to 50 hours in AOE2 , AOE4 and AOM, I can’t return them for moneyback

I just hope the AOMR DLC with China and that other pantheon aren’t canceled too!

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This. So much this.

Twenty characters.

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They would have to face legal action for that, so they can’t do it.
But don’t expect more than the bare minimum for those DLC

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