Part of the problem is Microsoft, definitely. I recall Dave on one of his streams from this month (or was it late October?) where he briefly mentions Forgotten Empires wants to do a lot more for AoE II DE, but Microsoft won't let them. And now Relic very likely has to deal with the same problems from Microsoft for improving AoE IV. It's bizarre mismanagement, but believable for a AAA company, to revive this literally billion dollar franchise and then immediately bind its developer's freedom to improve the game.The problem was not aoe4 but microsoft...