Update: StarCraft II Will Not Support LAN
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Dude, grow up! You can't stop piracy. The first thing that will come out beside the pirated version of SC2 is a B.net emulator for us wanting play on LAN. Look at what happened to Hellgate: London. They removed LAN support, their game failed miserably and Flagship went backrupt.BoogieManFL said:
The only reason Blizzard dared to make this movie it the fact that they are financially secure, thanks to WoW, and even if SC2 fails across the board, they will be secure. Bunch of evil bastards...
Grow up? What are you talking about? I simply made a comment.
I know you cannot stop piracy. If it's made by a person, it can be broken by a person. You assume too much.
I know you cannot stop piracy. If it's made by a person, it can be broken by a person. You assume too much.
They just don't want people to have the option to pirate the game, bypass all the Battlenet customer milking features that they might have planned and just use Hamachi to play it. They think every SC2 player is gonna link a credit card number to their Battlenet account to be charged small amounts of money whenever they want to create a tournament for their friends or whatever other bullshit they will come up with? Yeah uhm, good luck with that, I know I won't be doing it at least. It will also be funny to see localized serious e-sport tournaments being played via Battlenet with 150-200ms, this ought to effectively instagib all of SC2's e-sport potential. As someone else posted before me, way to shoot themselves in the foot.
Huh. Darn. I was actually going to buy it for the specific purpose of LAN play... I'm not much of an internet gamer, but I've played countless hours of Starcraft on LAN with my brothers and friends. Without that feature, it'd feel a bit pointless for me to buy the sequel.
Why are people complaining so much? It's this or DRM people! I see 2 practical uses for LAN play..
1. Spawn installs with friends, even though in my opinion that's cheating Blizzard out of honest money
2. Online if you don't have internet/have bad internet
Good things coming out of this
1. NO DRM
Good enough for me, having fine internet. It's not that bad, I've heard people complain Blizzard is just forcing us to use Battle Net, but considering that it is an excellent online service, it's like forcing you to eat a cookie to play online. You can still play with all of your friends, you just have to not be lazy and pick up a copy of the disk. What is the real problem here?
1. Spawn installs with friends, even though in my opinion that's cheating Blizzard out of honest money
2. Online if you don't have internet/have bad internet
Good things coming out of this
1. NO DRM
Good enough for me, having fine internet. It's not that bad, I've heard people complain Blizzard is just forcing us to use Battle Net, but considering that it is an excellent online service, it's like forcing you to eat a cookie to play online. You can still play with all of your friends, you just have to not be lazy and pick up a copy of the disk. What is the real problem here?
The real problem is is that
A) this is DRM, i can guarantee that it will validate your copy discreetly when you join battle net.
B) this removes the ability to play against other people in areas without internet, such as in rural areas.
C) Increases lag amount.
D) Ads Ads Ads.
A) this is DRM, i can guarantee that it will validate your copy discreetly when you join battle net.
B) this removes the ability to play against other people in areas without internet, such as in rural areas.
C) Increases lag amount.
D) Ads Ads Ads.
No LAN? In another RTS game I could only play LAN. Hmmm and I thought SC2 was supposed to be awesome. Oh well, I hope there are more options than Battle.Net.
SC2 Menu-Multiplayer-Battle.Net Duhn Duhn Duhn
This seems like Microsoft with slowly forcing people into buying Vista.
Blizzard, I hate you enough but why this?
SC2 Menu-Multiplayer-Battle.Net Duhn Duhn Duhn
This seems like Microsoft with slowly forcing people into buying Vista.
Blizzard, I hate you enough but why this?
I think this is an attempt to defend against piracy.... greedy dicks have enough money to buy a country.
I give it a month before someone releases a LAN crack for it. Barring that, I will not purchase StarCraft II. Why, DasMark, you may cry, you dangerously sexy Canadian mastodon, would you ever say that?
Because, gentle friends and neighbours, I would rather play with seven pals who I am very good friends with and have fun than lose in ten seconds to some dude who does this for a living.
Because, gentle friends and neighbours, I would rather play with seven pals who I am very good friends with and have fun than lose in ten seconds to some dude who does this for a living.