Thousands Sign StarCraft 2 Petition

[Halfbreed13]

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.

/facepalm. You obviously are ignorant. Gabe Newell from Valve addressed the boycott, and if you saw this, you would know that he said that the group had legitimate reasons for starting said boycott. He said that their concerns were something that Valve planned to address, and as such, he talked about Crash course and how they were looking into merging the two communities.

Oh, just because only 100,000 people sign it, we should ignore it? Peopl are entitled to make a petition if they want. Idiots like you who essentially say "STOP BITCHING TO MUCH LOL JUST BYU TEH GAEM" are disgusting. If the gaming company listens to the petitioners, then everyone is happy. If not, they don't buy the game and the company loses money for not listening. It is the way Capitalism works, and if you don't like it, stop bitching about how other people want to be represented. Because we all no how horrible that would be.
People like you make me sick.

 

[Jumplion]

Whats wrong with just hooking up to Bnet and making passworded games? You can all play in the same room, and if its as good as Blizzard says, people should want to. This would be a valid complaint to me if said parties outright lacked internet though.

Its Blizzards way of making sure everyone buys a copy as well. Enough people just buy one disc to install it on multiple computers, and they likely just removed LAN to remove this form of pirating.

Because not everyone in the whole entire world has easy access to fast internet. I direct you to this post;

You guys are waaaay over-estimating how long its going to take them to add this functionality to the game. Remember they already had lan-play as an option and then removed it.

And yet again this is a case of only viewing the world from the perspective you get to see it at. While over in the US your internet may be fast enough to handle multiplayer on battlenet, over here in NZ where our internet is criminally slow, we don't like you guys deciding for us that its no big deal because everyone has good enough internet to play it. We're just getting alienated, will nobody think of the little guy?

And do you really think this would stop piracy? If anything, this would increase piracy as a ripped version with LAN play would be out in a matter of days after it's released. That depresses me...

 

[Quadtrix]

Bet you 90% of those signatures are from pirates.

 

[SirSchmoopy]

Lan made Starcraft because the internet was 56k.

Lan is out dated and isn't needed.

 

[Amnestic]

Bet you 90% of those signatures are from pirates.

Just because they sail the seven seas doesn't mean that they don't want easy LAN access. In fact, maybe it's because they're on the open ocean that they want it. I don't see BT Broadband making cables to the middle of the North Sea. Do you?

 

[Lissa-QUON]

Not the biggest Starcraft fan in the world but I dropped my name on the petition because most times I've played War Craft and Star Craft against live people it HAS been via LAN cause none of us wanted to go farting around with Battlenet when we were all in the same house.

 

[DiamondJim]

Signed. I never did too much LANing, but I know it's a crucial element of some gamers' experience in the game.

Suck it up and make it happen, Blizzard.

 

[Lissa-QUON]

Bet you 90% of those signatures are from pirates.

Just because they sail the seven seas doesn't mean that they don't want easy LAN access. In fact, maybe it's because they're on the open ocean that they want it. I don't see BT Broadband making cables to the middle of the North Sea. Do you?

This response For The Win

 

[AtLeastImNotFrench]

Got the 102,000th sig.

What were they thinking to not include LAN in the first place?

 

[Zetona]

From these responses, it seems Activision is the new EA.

 

[tehweave]

So... What do they expect people to do without lan play? Play 1st person mode and then go online and fight against people who zerg rush you within one minute? No! NONONONONONONONO. I play lan with friends and people close by so I can smack them with something blunt or sharp or both so they won't do that. The scars from me playing with them will remind them that this is meant to be STRATEGIC as the title RTS emplores, and not FPS without the first person aspect.

 

[Flying-Emu]

Internet petitions won't get anything done.

 

[SonofSeth]

I fail to understand why LAN is such a big deal. If you want to have a lan party, just get a wireless router or a regular router and have everyone just go to the same game via Bnet. People are blowing this so far out of proportion. It's not like they are taking away your ability to play with friends.

But then everyone would have to buy a copy of Starcraft 2. How dares Blizzard make such a demand?

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

Taking LAN away from Starcraft is like taking the Table away from D&D.

 

[Jumplion]

Internet petitions won't get anything done.

With that kind of attitude, of course they won't get anything done.

If not petitions, then what? Raiding their headquarters? Sending death threats? Ransom notes for their families? Piracy?

Piracy does nothing, all it does is control the company out of fear if we're lucky. Most of the time it just reinforces the notion of more restrictive DRM.

 

[megapenguinx]

I just signed it. I was number 102058, so it looks like it's still chugging away. Although I can see why they may not want to incorporate it in order to fight piracy.

 

[Galaxy613]

I just signed it. I was number 102058, so it looks like it's still chugging away. Although I can see why they may not want to incorporate it in order to fight piracy.

Because the best way to fight piracy is to punish the paying community with less features.

*Edit* Sign'd

 

[megapenguinx]

I just signed it. I was number 102058, so it looks like it's still chugging away. Although I can see why they may not want to incorporate it in order to fight piracy.

Because the best way to fight piracy is to punish the paying community with less features.

*Edit* Sign'd

Well you wouldn't need to use Battlenet to play a LAN game, so people could still pirate it and have huge LAN parties (knew this to happen with the original SC).

 

[TaborMallory]

Making a petition is a bit early (seeing as Blizzard could have something better in mind, something they didn't tell us about), but I'll sign it anyway.

There is no greater joy than a Starcraft LAN party.