I understand you and I know that you are right to a point but unfortunately the developers have orders from World’s Edge which must be fulfilled and within those orders and agreements is not to disclose information until a specific date arrives, I have also been wishing you since last year new civilizations and new content but now things are like this and we cannot change them so easily, let’s hope that after the launch of the Poland and Denmark DLC the developers will begin to improve communication with AOE III fans, let’s hope that in the event of the tokyo game show reveal some information about the DLCs that are about to come out
The good news is that AOM retold has already been released, which suggests that as the year enters we may see more activity for AOE III from the developers, possibly they will return to the course of continuing to update the game by adding new civilizations such as the Persians, Koreans Or why not launch one or another South American civilization as they did with Mexico and the United States? 
Don’t forget that Creative Assembly once abruptly dropped Total War Three Kingdoms when it had at least one promised DLC remaining. Then they announced a Three Kingdoms 2 trying to appease the players which eventually got secretly cancelled too.
I don’t think WE or Microsoft is more trustworthy than CA or Sega.
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but AOE is a solid franchise, in addition the furor to play AOE III again began a few years ago when the mod wars of liberty was in fashion, I remember that it was a boom, to such a degree that most of the ideas implemented in WOL ended in AOE III DE, so in some way the franchise still has its solid and loyal player base, which is why I find it very difficult to stop supporting the game, plus AOE III has the most modern and peculiar game style of the entire franchise, the possibilities of the card system and the metropolis are endless and it is something that was considered and taken into account for AOE IV which uses the bizir points of the Ottomans very similar to the AOE III deck system and another example would be the Burgundian civilization which uses the revolution system for the Flemish revolution technology so if we take into account all these points I highly doubt that they will abandon a game which has brought too much innovation to the franchise and which takes place in the modern era
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So it is something that is justified only after a launch? I know we got good support after launch too. But this is an active RTS that needs support beyond its launch. World Edge knows that, because it does that with its other games.
Many companies have a no response policy and that is fine too. Just wondering what makes them answer preferentially. If the policy is “We respond till we lose interest”, it’s frankly mean to the playerbase. Some communication that says “We’ll not be responding to bug reports anymore” is much better, but awww does it make them look bad?
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Total War is a solid franchise too. Three Kingdoms particularly sold the most copies at release, had a 200k+ peak player count, more than all AOE combined, and still has a decent amount of players now.
https://steamdb.info/app/779340/charts/
These do not prevent them from breaking their promises twice. And both were publicly announced ones.
Well we later knew they were under a financial crisis after investing a huge amount of resources into a failed project which eventually got cancelled. Nobody would prefer to break their promises intentionally, but it’s not impossible that something internally happening in WE forces them to delay or even cancel the DLC.
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The sales of AOM retold have been more than good, so I don’t see why abandon its older brother AOE III DE that uses the same graphics engine and which has received tons of updates throughout its launch, also let’s not forget that the developers’ intentions are to alternate between one game and another in future events, so if you kill one, what’s the point of keeping the other when you know that AOM retold will only have 2 official expansions, one this year and another next year, It does not have any logic from the point of marketing and sales, as simple as if you kill AOE III DE entering the year after the second expansion of AOM retold is launched, it will also die as it does not have a backup from which to subsist, on the other hand If the developers continue releasing DLCs for AOE III DE, the game will force AOM retold to also continue updating and releasing at least one more expansion apart from those already planned, so the two games will survive at least two more years (2025 -2026)
Just to mention, I’m more than willing to be proven wrong on anything I’ve said here.
It’s not that they intentionally want to kill it.
But if they are facing some financially crisis or shortage of manpower too, and have to cut some of their projects, why would they not cut the seemingly “not so profitable” one?
Their abnormal reaction in the past 8 months is indicating nothing but bad news. Maybe the devs are forced to remain silent. Maybe they don’t want to announce bad news. If the company really care about the sales from AOE3 fans, someone should already come out and say something.
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Right you can responce in other titles a d other no
Friends, everything that is happening here is nothing more than collective isteria by not having official information about the launch of the new Baltic DLC, but we have to remain firm and positive that everything will turn out well, we are a community willing to do anything to improve our favorite game, if for some strange reason something unfortunate were to happen, we do not doubt that the moders will come out to support the community and follow up on the game in the same way as was done with the wars of liberty mod which I supported at the time in the distant year of 2012
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I never for once was pessimistic about the game even when it was released with many bugs, when it lacked DLC for quite a while, and when it got downplayed and disrespected on social media time after time. Because at that time we had normal communication and constant updates. No matter how much the management ignores the game, we at least have a dedicated team working on it.
But this time I have to jump onto the doomium train because everything about this game seems non-functional, and the management has eventually successfully re-purposed our devs to “a game they want us to play”. I cannot find any sign of positivity.
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There is literally zero chance the DLC gets cancelled.
Let’s wait for official news before thinking about any different prelude to the release of the Baltic DLC, there will be little left for the developers to make any announcement or clarification about the new expansion
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Maybe you know something more than the rest of us. Or maybe you have a lot of faith.
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We never had normal communication… but we didn’t need communication because we got patches. And devs responded to the bug reports (which maybe is communication so okay I take it back).
Compared to what we have now, “replying to bug reports” is already normal communication.
Yes, I’m not expecting the Baltic DLC until early December and then in 2025, they’re going to alternate DLCs between AoE 3 and Retold…
And even more so with what they spent… the DLC is going to come out at the end of this year, that’s for sure…
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That sounds unreasonable to say the least.
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The problem is not the DLC, the problem is that this game is also full of bugs and balance problems since it came out and well maybe the balance is not as exaggerated as in AOM but it is close to zero and it was also worse for a long time.
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Pour ce qui est de l’équilibrage, je n’ai jamais vu de jeu parfait à ce niveau, même sur Starcraft c’était la chaise musicale avec à chaque fois une meta qui apparaissait à chaque équilibrage, les mmorpg pareil.
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