Relic’s Resource Crunch: Save AoE4 First!

[Hellstorm]

Relic Entertainment’s down to an estimated 100–120 employees, a rough guess based on their pre-2023 size of around 200, slashed by layoffs—121 in May 2023 and 41 in April 2024—offset by minimal hires to keep projects afloat.

That shrinking headcount’s part of why they dropped Age of Empires III support after the Definitive Edition; they couldn’t sustain it alongside Company of Heroes 3 and AoE4. Another chunk of their resources got funneled into Earth vs. Mars, a quirky Relic Labs experiment due this summer that’s splitting their already thin team.

They should be pouring those limited resources into fixing what they’ve got, like AoE4’s busted AI that’s been a mess since Sultans Ascend or CoH3’s lingering balance issues, instead of chasing niche side projects.

Fans deserve polished games over gambles when staff’s this tight—thoughts?

[Hellstorm]

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also from your previous article it talks about relic steppping down from aoe3, thats flat wrong, that's why u dont trust these journalists, they can get things wrong, relic never made aoe3 nor ever help with aoe3 dlcs

its all forgotten empires too

You proved you can't read, the article says absolutly ZERO about relic and aoe3, nice fake news.

[Hellstorm]

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we have official response from forgotten empires devs in regards to aoe4, relic has no presence nor do they have any comments in regards to latest dlc

POST. YOUR. PROOF.

[BigBotKilla187]

Pretty sure Hellstorm is right, i dont know why the others keep going to reddit and rumors lol