Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For Starcraft 2

Kemeno writes "Blizzard has announced that they will be dropping LAN support for Starcraft II, citing piracy and quality concerns. Instead, all multiplayer games will be hosted through their new Battle.net service. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by this move, but wasn't LAN play how the original Starcraft became popular? Blizzard said, 'More people on Battle.net means ... even more resources devoted to evolving this online platform to cater to further community building and new ways to enjoy the game online. World of Warcraft is a great example of a game that has evolved beyond anyone's imagination since their Day 1 and will continue to do so to better the player experience for as long as players support the title. ... We would not take out LAN if we did not feel we could offer players something better.'"

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These Developers are out of touch with reality.

[Khyber]

"We would not take out LAN if we did not feel we could offer players something better."

You fucking can't. I haven't used Battle.net in well over a decade because it BLEW CHUNKS. The only way I could ever get a decent game of SC going was to call my friends up and have a LAN party.

You just ripped the HEART out of your game. Fuck you, Blizzard. You just guaranteed I'll NEVER touch another thing from your company ever again.

Re:Confusing Comparison: RTS vs RPG

[eldavojohn]

Personally I don't mind that much, I haven't attended a LAN party is years. However I can definitely see how this will anger SCORES of people.

score: n. Twenty, 20 (number).

'Scores' huh? Well I'd say it's safe to bump up your estimates of angering 40-80 people considering the article said:

So furious that over 7,000 fans have signed a petition to Blizzard to add Lan support.

Re:Confusing Comparison: RTS vs RPG

[cavtroop]

what a pedantic, arsehole reply.

Screw my karma. You sir, are a dick.

Re:Does anyone remember when...

[brkello]

You are a moron if you believed that. Blizzard is a company. Its goal is to make money. Was true then, is true now. Given as much time and work that they put in to their games, I have no doubt this game will be great as well. All the modded up comments are just people over-reacting (as usual). If Blizzard can run servers that can keep WoW up and running, I have no doubt that they can do a good job managing the SC2 servers as well.