I agree completely. Same thing happened to the Quake series. I even tried ETQW... 'nuff said. Left4Dead seems to fill the id-void nicely, though. The kind of game id would have produced if they were still cutting edge.

Last time I looked for AoC patches elsewhere, must have been back in August, there was no other option than to use the built-in downloader. Of course, now they've gone 3-4 weeks without a patch so I guess everything is perfect. Riiiiiiight....