They keep working(even today),and if we check the steamdb,we can see all of those changes are really mean something,but until now we still can’t see something new comes out.
I start to believe it might be a patch in the future,it might be balance,fix bugs or even some new cards.
Just because they have no motivation or necessity to engage in voluntary labor.If they don’t want to make something new,they don’t need to do so many things before.lol.
Todavia pienso que son solo cosas de Steam y nada más
Lo siento mi amigo, pero lo más probable es que una nueva actualización al juego jamás llegue
I’d assume it’s nothing of significance.
Unless they say they’re working on a patch or something, they ain’t doing anything for AOE3 - they do not engage anymore with the community, so take that as a further signifier.
In all honesty, it’s much better to just see that the game has had all support stopped and enjoy the game for what it is/play mods / etc - it’s not worth the turmoil of holding onto hope for the game.
We need to see an official, solid product for that, as World’s Edge are not going to do the same stupid blunder as before - announcing DLC to get the AOE3 community spirits high whilst the other games got lots of attention before announcing a renege on it.
Friend,I am just enjoying the mods made by our players,infact before the cancellation of the DLC,I don’t know their importance.
What they are doing might be a kind of voluntary labor,lol.
And infact the reason I looking forward to an update is just hope to see a card in age 4,this card can replace all of the falconet/organ gun/gatling gun to be a new kind of cannon.This kind of cannon similar to falconet,but don’t have limber mode.
I think this can make late game have more fun,and make the basic cannon more useful,it is also a kind of technology advance.
And I made a local mod,it can be an example(although I think the new kind of cannon shouldn’t have caseshot mode).
This is the cannon(I used the napoleon gun as the example):
Exactly!
That is the point
Why they would return to work on AoE III DE without explicity announce it?
It makes no sense
Friend,infact both I and many players now counting on mods,if WE won’t give us Civs and revs,mods will.
Mods can even give us civs or revs they will never consider,such as Serbia,Afghanistan,Chechnya or Paraguay,and so on.
The only visible change is in the changenumber, nothing is changing in content, so it’s only some “service” stuff…
If you look into it more if you go to update history on steam db it says Last Record Update 19th December 2025
Apparently that means the game has had some changes done to it recently
If you go to depots and branches you can see it ways privatebranches 1 so they are working on something but what is it I don’t know
Even if a small update is also a good news
Hopefully yes and something is in the works!
Friend, you said before they wouldn’t give us anything at all, right? How come you trust that they’ll resume the updates again?
I have a mix of feelings mate. One part of me is a non believer and other is the believer one
hehe boy 
Lol,that’s really funny.
And I don’t think they have motivation or necessity to engage in voluntary labor.That changes might mean something.
Almost 0% chance it’s volunteer labor imo. I don’t think most American big tech companies would do that to their employees.
What seems more likely is an executive decided the cost of a patch was worth whatever good will they likely gain.
They probably don’t like having to block upset fans on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc because they know they’re people who normally would be spending money on the franchise. They probably didn’t want to spend more on AoE3 either, but if they saw income from the franchise going down after canceling the game, they may find that saving their money isn’t worth what they thought it might be.
Even with some AoE2 and AoE4 players coming to gloat after AoE3 got canned, I can’t imagine it (a game getting cancelled) was a good sign for the health of the franchise. Many AoE3 players basically said they were done financially supporting the franchise, but I could imagine some people who don’t play AoE3 seeing risks for their own game (2, 4, or AoMR) and potentially slowing their spending. That would seem like a pretty major issue for the executives managing the franchise.
Of course most of this is speculation, but none of it seems totally outrageous.
Bueno en un comentario que hice antes de que me censuraran yo habia dicho que dejaba de apoyar a la saga y que no gastaria ni un centavo más, osea… me compraba los DLC de salida a precio completo de todos los juegos (menos aoe 4) y me quedaba sin dinero para comprar otros juegos que me gustaba… pero ahora que ya no hago eso e podido descubrir otros videojuegos y sagas
