Comments on: No LAN Support for Starcraft 2

By: NameBot

NameBot — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:42:34 +0000

Stupid Move. Those of us without a reliable internet connection will not be playing Starcraft II, much less buying it. LAN multiplayer constitutes 90% of my gaming. If a game doesn’t support LAN multi, me and my local gamer friends won’t be buying it. They just guaranteed more piracy of the game, because many people with poor/slow/no internet are just going to say why should i buy this if i wont get my money’s worth with local person to person play.

By: Krantzstone

Krantzstone — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:42:54 +0000

Sorry, that should have been “its much-anticipated”, not “it’s”.

By: Krantzstone

Krantzstone — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:36:06 +0000

How disappointing. Starcraft was one of the few games to make LAN parties so much fun and worthwhile, and it’s much-anticipated sequel doesn’t even have LAN support?

Bah.

By: Manx

Manx — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:55:04 +0000

Don’t tell me that playing through Battle Net is faster than playing through Lan!

By: Kontour

Kontour — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:03:08 +0000

The sequel to a game that basically started the whole LAN thing doesn’t have LAN!
How ironic!

By: Sprengkopf

Sprengkopf — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:25:33 +0000

No mather I think pirating is stealing. I like Blizzard, that is a true think they had choice. Becuase of pirating gives more hit to developers so Blizzard does what should be done.

Anyway back to topic. Blizzard choice no-support LAN in StarCraft II. They want the Starcraft II players should be play in their orijinal servers. (Battle.NET) So everyone who wants play Starcraft II on multi have to be buy a original Starcraft II. That isn’t a joke. They are put themselves in the rank one again. See the others will watch this way also. Bye bye LAN!

By: Liu Kang

Liu Kang — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:41:17 +0000

They have already doomed this game with repeated delays, and now they deny the hardcore gamers/LANers their most basic needs… what a joke.

By: FiXT

FiXT — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:17:34 +0000

While I realize that computers and the whole copyright IP thing has come a long way since the days of SC, the original game and other blizzard games like warcraft never had a problem with installing the game on multiple PC’s and using it for LAN use.

You couldn’t use it online, but players with the same game/key could run the game on a lan game no problem. Thats what made it so awesome for LAN Parties. Requiring an internet connection is basically a great way to get this game dismissed from LAN’s.

The last few LANs I attended, only ONE had an internet connection, otherwise people go and play World of Warcraft or download stuff all night long instead of actually participating.

If LAN organizers are forced to provide network access, just to play one silly game, they are likely going to choose to just not host it.

By: bojangles

bojangles — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:35:50 +0000

Please remind me how pirating isn’t stealing. You’re taking their software and using it for free. You took their software without buying their license.

Anyway, back on the topic. Having no LAN capability really puts the kibosh on LAN events. I’m sure the skilled players are sick of playing the same old StarCraft from almost 15 years ago. Say goodbye to LAN parties and the well known StarCraft tournaments. It really makes me wonder how the Blizzard competitions are going to be organized.

By: ColMirage

ColMirage — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:01:36 +0000

Pirating isn’t stealing. But I do agree it’s a pretty stupid decision, I don’t mind though as long as B.Net 2.0 allows for extremely low latency play.

By: daveloft

daveloft — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:53:19 +0000

That’s a mistake. It will only annoy the fans who plan to buy it and it will never stop the ones who plan to steal it. When will they learn.