Microsoft has confirmed that no new major updates to Age Of Empires Online will be made, though some content already in the pipeline will release soon. The game, along with customer support and community challenges, will continue though bug-fixing will probably be slower.
“Creating top-tier content, as we have been for the last year and a half, is very expensive-too expensive to maintain for long, as it turns out,” users were informed via a blog post by executive producer Kevin ‘Trajan’ Perry. “We can no longer afford to keep creating it. AOEO already has a very large amount of high-quality, hand-crafted entertainment, and adding more is no longer cost-effective.”
Perry added that the game would carry on, with customer support and community challenges, although he admitted bug-fixing would henceforth be a slower process. “This is a bittersweet announcement for me to make,” continued Perry. “While I wish that we had been able to add everything that we had wanted (especially a Roman civilization), I am very proud of the work that has been done to get to this point. Over the past year specifically we have made a significant amount of changes to the service, including highly complex changes like altering the business model entirely.”
Source: AgeofEmpiresOnline.com
