On the discord, at least, the devs still seem to have their heads on the immediate future (giants), or at least content within the current season in general. I don't know if anyone is seriously thinking about what comes next yet. We've still got 3/4 of the year or more left of what's already publicly confirmed to work through.

I've been digging into this a bit and aside from the DLC release plan (IE Giant Rulers and an Archon themed DLC with a new culture) I don't believe there has been any significant new news. Which I find surprising since I would think they would start testing Giants in some capacity?

Crossing my fingers for a super awesome double chaos Archon themed faction being super awesome!

In a stream they said there might be season 3. But similar to season 2, it wont get decided until the current season is done.

So maybe.

If you come up with a good idea people like, maybe they will make it.

Originally posted by Blanch Warren:

If you come up with a good idea people like, maybe they will make it.

A multiclass or classless system.

There, a good idea.

Probably something about a Panda form

Originally posted by Blanch Warren:

If you come up with a good idea people like, maybe they will make it.

Something like empire mode and a vastly improved Pantheon. I couldn't care less about new races right now. While we are at it...why do the devs decided to add ridicolous races like rats, toads, moles for example?

Originally posted by trmnt:

Something like empire mode and a vastly improved Pantheon. I couldn't care less about new races right now. While we are at it...why do the devs decided to add ridicolous races like rats, toads, moles for example?

I don't mind adding funny races, but rather that they lack lore to fit into the AoW universe to back them up. The original AoW did this *very* differently.

Originally posted by IlluminaZero:

I've been digging into this a bit and aside from the DLC release plan (IE Giant Rulers and an Archon themed DLC with a new culture) I don't believe there has been any significant new news. Which I find surprising since I would think they would start testing Giants in some capacity?

Crossing my fingers for a super awesome double chaos Archon themed faction being super awesome!

Giants isn't do until 2nd quarter, and they generally don't reveal much until the DLC is within a month. 2nd quarter is good distance away and hopefully Giants has some new amazing features that are eating up their time.

Originally posted by Folv:

Just curious if anyone has heard developers talk about future plans, or the lack thereof.

A third season is coming if the 2nd season goes well is what the devs have said. Buy a second season pass to help achieve a third season.

Speaking only for myself, I'm unwilling to buy the season pass knowing very little about 2/3 of it, but because of the pricing structure I'm *also* unwilling to buy Ways of War separately until I know that I *won't* want the pass. Which only increases my impatience to find out more about Giant Kings, but that won't actually make them ready to show it any faster.

But if there's some suit counting how successful the second season is *right now* to decide whether or not to fund a third, I hope they take into account the players waiting for more information before they make purchasing decisions.

I was initially wary of buying season pass DLC but after 100-200 hours really enjoying the main game + 1st season DLC (both at discount) I figured that I may as well show my support.

Shill post yes but I mean after >300 hours of quality enjoyment being stingy in this regards seems pretty petty.

It still depends on the season 2 numbers - if it sells well the devs confirmed they are still open to doing a season 3 but they need to make sure can justify it + with paradox the publisher.

Even if it was theoretically already approved before the final dlc of season 2-(which i think is very unlikely) the devs are probably contracted not to say anything about it yet even if its only possible concepts.
(basically the only thing i think was confirmed is no vampires until season 3 or later)

The devs try to keep everything in house up until they start doing dlc dev streams and have mostly sorted the final release candidate builds ready.

They will probably hint closer to decision time if discussions are happening in regards to another round of dlc.

Yeah its way too early to say on if there would be a 3rd season. We only have 1 of 3 major content drops for the current season and still over half a year or more for those other 2 content drops to happen

I would wager we might hear hints once the 2nd content drop is done and they are well on their way with the 3rd. That would be likely when the metrics will go to Paradox and they'll all decide if the current season sold well enough to justify investment in another season after this or if they'll start downsizing to smaller content drops or even shift focus entirely to working on another game.


So basically if you want a 3rd season make sure you've told as many people as possible how amazing the game is t oget as many sales of stuff. Paradox has proven that if a game gets good sales then they are more than happy for it to get content drop after content drop and build up the expansions.

Originally posted by Overread:

So basically if you want a 3rd season make sure you've told as many people as possible how amazing the game is t oget as many sales of stuff. Paradox has proven that if a game gets good sales then they are more than happy for it to get content drop after content drop and build up the expansions.

Kill the game's sales for a year or two so it doesn't get as insufferable as Stellaris, got it.

Seriously, sometimes you just need to call a game complete.