Well, the first thing I thought while reading this was that it would have been great if Microsoft had released the source code of Age of Empires with the releas

Well, the first thing I thought while reading this was that it would have been great if Microsoft had released the source code of Age of Empires with the release of the Definitive Edition, as well as considered a LAN mode. Unfortunately, while AoE2:DE is an awesome game, they have done neither… Good thing that there are projects like OpenAge going on!