Awesome to see AoE, and games in general being future proofed. Sad when functionality is lost because someone turned off a server.
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The company shut down and turned the servers off, but luckily someone created an implementation of the match making server.
And even to this day the community is fully alive and growing, they even continue to develop the game, and have taken it far beyond the original.
It’s called Forged Alliance Forever.