> There was never any reason not to have included that code in the client to support LAN play from the start. Yes there was. It was a 3 person team. That's a g

> There was never any reason not to have included that code in the client to support LAN play from the start. Yes there was. It was a 3 person team. That's a good enough reason to not have almost any feature that requires any amount of work, including UI work, because there is always a whole mountain of stuff that you're not doing that you'd like to do as a 3-person dev team.