If I remember correct, the AoE series was invented and developed by Ensemble Studios and MS only bought the company in 2001? Then they forced ES to stop working on the official 1.0d patch, made them shell out AoM asap and convinced the World Cyber Games Committee to replace AoC with AoM (which resulted in AoC losing most of its professional scene and lots of disappointment in the AoM community, because the game was not yet ready for competitive gaming)? Or am I wrong here?