If voices about Relic Is not working on AOE4 as before are true, It Will be a big problem and maybe AOE4 would be in its final state of Life with only few updates along the way.
So, After RELIC’s layoffs and its actually indipendence without a Publisher i don’t see a good future for AOE4.
It could be a problem also for the future of the whole Franchise because World’s Edge is a small team.
Now, assuming these rumors as true, the right decision could be the acquisition of Relic Entertainment by XBOX making them the main AOE developers.
And yes, in this case, we’ll not see graphic improvents of course. They are expensive and requesting different people to work on them and only Relic Is able to work with their Engine.
Yeah something tells me comments like this are the reason why they haven’t went public with this.
Maybe they’re licensing Essence to Forgotten Empires now, and offering consulting work. We don’t know the details.
Some people are happy about it. We’ll see. Though I’m not sure if Relic dropped IV, or Microsoft dropped Relic. I don’t see why their new owner would say no if offered to extend the contract. It’s guaranteed money.
People like me are who made AOE one of the biggest franchise in the world (we are the first AOE fans).
i bought all games and Expansions every time. I’m member of this community since 2017, there will be a reasons After all.
Yeah. It kinda makes sense for them to have some people working only on AoE4, given it’s a different engine, and maybe share some people between the different games.
I’m just worried about the quality of the next civs. The new units they added recently, the Khan Hunters and the Malian units, look very similar to already existing units. Some of them to the point of only having a different color on their armor. This is not a good sign in retrospect, now that we know they’re not designed by Relic.
I don’t know what they’re dreaming it’s gonna happen with AoM, but I really hope the next AoE4 DLC will be on par with the previous one, if they care at all about the future of this franchise.
“We’re also turning our attention to what’s next as we plan for our Season Nine release later this year, and even more exciting offerings in Spring 2025.”
It’s very vague, but they did say offerings, not news, so for their sake I hope it’s more than a release date.