I’ve been wondering about this lately. Any prognostications?
Two possible scenarios
1- The game launches with optimization and balance issues. It takes 2 years to release the first DLC. AoMr becomes just another title in the aoe series
2-The game launches well-optimized, and patches are frequent. The first DLC is released in a maximum of 8 months. The game becomes a success that can even rival AoE2
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But what about new games? Is AMOR the end of the road for major new releases and all we’ll get is DLC and patches to the existing games?
(Unlikely) Disney and Microsoft partner up and decide to give Galactic Battlegrounds the DE treatment. Could be perfectly timed with the 20th anniversary of Revenge of the Sith
(Also unlikely) Microsoft decides to properly remaster its other RTS series - Rise of Nations and Rise of Legends.
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A catastrophe happens in both possible futures: Generative AI is forced to be implemented and players will have trouble to find out what is human made, what is human-stolen-and-made-by-machines, yet prices will still go up
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OMG rise of nations and rise of legends! I would love that! Really. Especially Rise of Legends deserves attention and would be amazing upgraded and would fill a gap next to AoMR in the strategy and game genre in general.
But RoL would needs more than AoMR will get. And yeah it’s unfortunately unlikely but I am already happy we get AoMRwhich hopefully launches good and with a great DLC 5-8 months later
Two possibilities:
- AoMR will be a flop and they fire the whole team
- AoMR will be a massive success and they will still fire the whole team
At last it seems like thats what Microsoft and many other publishers are currently doing.
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For me, it goes for the latter… AoM has 5 mythologies and is easier to balance, plus it is from the WC3 era so it could do well where WC3 Reforged failed…
Yes, they could also release AoE Online DE or Empire Earth 1 DE in 2026, but I see it unlikely… and obvious dlcs for AoE 2 and 3 DE and Retold in 2025, 2026 and so on…
Yes, that too…plus Microsoft was closing many studios this week to reduce costs…
Yes, I agree…maybe they will try RoN first in 2028 (25th anniversary) and then Rise of Legends in 2031 (25th anniversary)…
Yes, that’s true… it would hurt us if after launching AoM Retold, MS closed World Edge and Forgotten Empires…
A completely new next generation version of the original Age of Empires. 
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If the so talked about change in population will be only the cost of some myth units, that will be kind of frustranting
Age of Empires Online 2 xd…
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Some new footage came out during an interview that showcases an increased pop cap, laborers are up to 100 from 80 for example, and it looks like house cap increase and tc pop increase is confirmed as well.
(Starts @ 25:41)
On topic, this should be the last remaster for a long time. Everything released in the future for the Age series will likely be DLC for existing titles and future titles that expand the Age series. For AoM this may mean another mythology focused title 4~ years after release of Retold.
We may be experiencing a renaissance of the RTS genre, and I couldn’t be more excited to see what happens next!
If the user interface was much more user friendly, they replaced the Disney cartoon inspired animations with realistic ones and added an in-game editor, it would be fine with me.
yes I saw it and I’m happy with it, besides everything else is great but the problem is that the human/soldier unit costs 2 pop and I find that that’s an imbalance with the drop in pop of mythical unit, 1 pop for the soldiers would really be a massive advance in the population as the developer said during the interview
I think that AOM must be at the level of AOE2/3/4 Population level especially since now there are more than 8 players in multy (AOE site)
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This is obvious because after the release of AoM: Retold there will be nothing to remaster from this series. When it comes to new titles in this series, I don’t count on anything completely new for many years - looking at the development of AoE 4, it will probably take 20 years for it to match the content of AoE 2. So I’m not getting my hopes up for AoE 5 (although ancient AoE could be great as a modern game). AoE 3 doesn’t need a successor.
The only thing I’m afraid of is the development and further support for already released games (apart from AoE 2, which is the apple of the developers’ eyes). It will be really very good if AoM receives one DLC every year.
That’s actually what makes it so exciting for me. Over the next 2-3 years we’ll see where they want to take the franchise as a whole. Does that mean bringing features from all of the other titles together? Does that mean a change in focus on what an expansion means? AoE 4 just played with the concept of variant civs, aoe 3 recently added cosmetic DLC, aoe 2 added the content from aoe 1… What happens next is completely uncharted territory!
Well, I’m afraid of these experiments. The civs variants in AoE 4 are just garbage spam - wasted potential. RoR is probably already dead and it is difficult to find a way to develop it in the future (releasing DLC to DLC???). V&V DLC due to the lack of new civs, it does not encourage purchase.
The best DLC models for games in this series are simply classic expansions. I don’t want exciting disappointments, just cool classic DLCs.
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I’m inclined to agree with you. The AoE franchise has been in a rut for a bit now as far as DLC quality is concerned IMO. Variants to me are nothing but a cost-cutting measure used to inflate the civ roster artificially. I think AoEIV could have benefited more from historical battles or something similar. Unless I see hard numbers I’m not buying Sultans as the best-selling DLC in AoE history when the Conquerors exists.
And we don’t need to cover the missteps of RoR and V&V that everyone saw coming from miles away. Even The Mountain Royals had less content than the previous DLC.
Makes me rather cautious about 3DEs upcoming DLC, to be honest.
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I think the issue with Mountain Royals was its pricing because content-wise, it was similar to LotW and DotD.
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It will have the same fate like AOE3 DE.