Thousands Sign StarCraft 2 Petition

[Jandau]

The main justification by Blizz for excluding LAN is that Battle.net 2.0 is supposed to allow for all the functionality that a LAN party would have. However, that also assumes that everyone at a LAN party has an internet connection. I can safely say that's bull and a lame excuse to push their microtransaction-infested devilspawn. Petition signed!

 

[RRilef]

I went from: "Ah cool, new starcraft; Note to self: buy" to " Episodes? Ah crap... well, maybe the goldpack in two years, when its at 10 bucks" when they announced that.

Good luck with that, Diablo 2 at WalMart is still $30.

But, this may be one of the few online petitions that make sense and I would sign if I liked SC. I may anyway though because absolutely no LAN is crap and if they take it out of SC2, it's gunna come out of Diablo 3 as well.

 

[Dyp100]

It's Activision, there not gonna listen, it's such a shame, really.

I just hope AV doesn't ruin DIII.

 

[InvisibleMilk]

I signed, Bizzard, don't kill LAN.

 

[KeyMaster45]

Blizzard tends to look on petitions with some rather heavy disdain. I've never heard it put into words but the vibe I get from them when petitions for their games do get started (albeit most of them are utter crap petitions) is they take the stance of "How dare you question our greatness"

If you really want to make an impression why not coordinate a mass throwing of shoes at the SC2 dev team when they show up at Blizzcon next week. That's bound to get their attention if the whole auditorium does that.

I think I may have said when this first came up that given enough time someone somewhere is going to come up with a way to hack the game and add a user made functionality for LAN's. Let blizzard take it away some asian dude will just put it back in and stick the patch up on the internet for everyone else to download.

To sum it up I don't expect this to change anything, and being a non SC fan I really don't care either way.

 

[Skizle]

lan is important, but charging over $150 for all three games just so that you will be able to play those reasons is more bullshit than this issue IMO. all in favor of making a petition for this?

 

[Abedeus]

Didn't they already say that no matter what people say or what petitions they make, LAN won't be added?

 

[Eruanno]

I went to sign this just now, when I realized I had already signed day one when the petition started. Heh, nothing spices up life like a little amnesia.

 

[dochmbi]

There will be a hacked version which includes LAN functionality, that's for sure.

 

[Ohlookit'sMatty]

I never even played the old game and I dont plan to play this one but even I know that no LAN is the worst thing they could do to this game

Apart from making the Zerg armor pink of course

-M

 

[Mentalgen]

Ok first off, this petition crap has to stop.

The left for dead 2 petition didn't 'work', valve had always had the intention of releasing more content for l4d. If anything, they might have released DLC for f4d earlier.

Second. One hundred thousand people...

that's it?

STARCRAFT IS A NATIONAL F***ING SPORT in Korea. Blizzard doesn't give a crap what few thousand winy brits and americans think about a lack of LAN functionality. This game is being made, first and foremost, for the Koreans. It will sell like chocolate-coated crack anyways.

We all know why they're doing this. Piracy. So there may yet be one silver lining to this dark turn of events:

If you have to register online to play with others, maybe the game won't be riddled with stardock-esque DRM aids.

 

[Jumplion]

Ok first off, this petition crap has to stop.

The left for dead 2 petition didn't 'work', valve had always had the intention of releasing more content for l4d. If anything, they might have released DLC for f4d earlier.

Second. One hundred thousand people...

that's it?

STARCRAFT IS A NATIONAL F***ING SPORT in Korea. Blizzard doesn't give a crap what few thousand winy brits and americans think about a lack of LAN functionality. This game is being made, first and foremost, for the Koreans. It will sell like chocolate-coated crack anyways.

We all know why they're doing this. Piracy. So there may yet be one silver lining to this dark turn of events:

If you have to register online to play with others, maybe the game won't be riddled with stardock-esque DRM aids.

100,000 people is a lot of people, at least compared to many other petitions. 100,000 is a number to be reckoned with, it may not seem big, but if 100,000 people complain to McDonalds about their 3rd-degree-burning coffee, it's going to ring some bells.

And if Starcraft is a national sport in Korea, wouldn't it make more sense to include LAN in the game? Just a thought, because, you know, that's how they usually play the game in their tournaments...

 

[sneakypenguin]

How the heck can yyou not support LAN?! my 1 MB connection couldn't handle 8 people at my place over B net. I'm sure the code wouldn't be THAT much more difficult to throw in there.

 

[Asehujiko]

lan is important, but charging over $150 for all three games just so that you will be able to play those reasons is more bullshit than this issue IMO. all in favor of making a petition for this?

Except that each of them is about the size of a full game and we still know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the prices of LotV and HotS. For all we know they could be $5 each. And WoL will contain a fully functional 3 faction multiplayer suite and a highly detailed 40-50 mission campaign.

If you read the press conference about the split instead of just the agry ranting by kids who complan for the sake of complaining, the split occured because they had to choose: delay the game for 2-3 years(would attract a MASSIVE amount of complains) or work on what's almost done, release that and THEN worry about the rest(generated a relatively minor amount of complaining by a bunch of people who never buy blizzard products but yap about them anyways because it's cool to hate popular things which are now poisoning the internet).

Now the choice goes between:
1. Getting the game out of the door with a fully functional online segment.
2. Delay it AGAIN to accommodate the tiny part of the population too lazy to reserve one cable in the router for internet when holding a lanparty.

And i bet that if they delay it to implement LAN, the same 100.000 people would be hosting a petition saying "screw lan give us the game now".

 

[shifty89]

well i signed it because i agree with above statements, starcraft is lan....... lan is starcraft.

 

[Amnestic]

There will be a hacked version which includes LAN functionality, that's for sure.

This. Within five days of SC2 release I reckon as well.

 

[Zacharine]

Signed it. Me and my friends, we have an annual LAN party where no internet connection is available (unless we'd want to use cellphone based connections). No LAN support means we'd be unable to play SC II.

Officially that is. A few people with exceptional coding skills do attend...

I wholeheartedly support this petition and it's nice to see gamers are willing to make their wishes known.

 

[BaldursBananaSoap]

When do online petitions ever work? But without LAN what will the Koreans do? All they do is have huge LAN competitions. There's no way they'll way buy SC2 without LAN. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WILL NOBODY THINK OF THE KOREANS?

 

[Amnestic]

When do online petitions ever work?

Germany.