Tom Regan, Contributing Editor
October 10, 2024
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Age of Empires 3 is being delisted on October 30th, 17 years after its release. Requiring to Steam, Xbox Game Studios revealed that the precious PC release will likewise have its servers shuttered on the very same date.
“After several years of assistance, we will be retiring the title from sale,” Xbox Game Studios states. “In addition, on October 30, 2024 multiplayer services for the video game will stop to run. This is because of the innovation no longer being supported.”
Age of Empires 3 will still work offline
Gamers who currently own the video game will still have the ability to play the 2007 initial offline after October 30th, with the project and skirmish material still working as meant. The relocation will not impact Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition, with fans of the multiplayer being motivated to move over to that variation.
October has actually shown to be a bad month for fans of traditional video games, with Sony revealing that LittleBigPlanet 3– and all the series DLC– will be delisted by the end of the month. The relocation comes in the middle of larger issues around video game conservation, with worries that without a collective effort from publishers, an increasing variety of video games will be lost to time.
Together with Definitive Editions repackaging the initial entries in the precious RTS franchise, 2021’s Age of Empires IV was the series’ last mainline release with spin off Age of Mythology remade for PC and Xbox and launched last month.
About the Author
Contributing Editor, Game Developer
Tom Regan is an independent reporter covering video games, music and innovation from London, England. The previous Games Editor at Wikia’s Fandom, Tom is now a routine critic and press reporter at The Guardian, specialising in informing the human stories behind video game advancement. You can read his composing on video games in the paper, along with his musings on innovation and popular culture in outlets like NME, Metal Hammer, Gamesradar, VGC and EDGE, to call however a couple of.