22nd December 2024, 11:25 PM
The thing is, LAN support was never broken. Once the game was up and running, it just worked, if you selected the standard modern protocol of course. They never needed to spend time updating the code, they just needed to leave it as it was. Removing it had to have been an active choice for some end goal.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)