Comments on: No LAN Play For Starcraft II

By: sheepish

sheepish — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:21:54 +0000

i suspect it has more to do with forcing everyone into battlenet so that they can either later on force subscriptions or bombard you with advertisements.

By: legless

legless — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:06:30 +0000

Thats a shame really.

By: Daveh

Daveh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:47:16 +0000

Your talking about starforce. More specifically starforce 3. The biggest irony here is that the only people who will be effected are FULLY legitimate users as pirated users will bypass battle.net to begin with making this a moot point.

Even VALVE offer dedicated servers for lan play and offline modes so that you can indeed play their games on lan.

Somehow i dont think Blizzard is to blame for this, Activision is.

This kind of DRM says that Blizzard and Activision have no faith in their product, afterall if they were sure the product would sell they would have no need for this kind of action.

On a final note, the reason that they are worried about piracy is likely that they are selling 3 different games on single player campaign alone (you can play online with one, why buy 3 when you can pirate the other two and not worry about MP).

Activision need to seriously rethink their maneuver here and what it says about their confidence in Statrcraft 2 as a product.

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:41:49 +0000

It’s certainly an issue for me, my internet can only support 1 person playing WC3 on it when nobody else in the house is using it. If I tried to play with 3 mates in the same room the net would fail entirely.

Guess I’ll just have to stick to SC1 for my LAN parties and not bother with SC2.

By: Adam Steel

Adam Steel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:34:01 +0000

This has got to be a fucking joke. This can’t be real. That’s like making Counter-Strike without multiplayer. Oh wait they did that. It wasn’t popular.

So Starcraft 2 will be strictly not for tournaments. Starcraft 2 will not be for gaming parties. Wow. HAS NOOONE TOLD BLIZZARD HOW POPULAR STARCRAFT WAS ON LAN?!?!?!?!?!

I’ll pay you fifty bucks to let me watch while you tell Korea…

This had got to be some sort of lie, misunderstanding, joke, or all three. There’s no fucking way Blizzard would be this stupid.

I don’t know what happened to Blizzard. They used to be so good with their patches, support, large amounts of content, and balance. Then they made World of Warcraft, threw it all out the window and became the same money grabbing, penny pinching ‘our way or the highway’ cheapskates EA and Microsoft have been for years.

First Valve go bad, now this. There’s not a single developer I still like. This is a sad day for this attempted future game developer.

Go to hell Blizzard.

By: Duskbringer

Duskbringer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:57:53 +0000

Wow.. idiocy.
Yeah, Plunkett and Pardo, they do still exist. More importantly, playing against a family member or friends in your room still exists.
I hope he’s being smug and cagey and has some other word for it, because this is garbage.

By: Blah2

Blah2 — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:24:47 +0000

piracy crackdown I assume.

By: Barry Meacham

Barry Meacham — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:02:35 +0000

that is the sucks!

its not like SC2 wont sell.. even ppl who do pirate still own a copy of SC1..

but i guess so long as u can set up your own battle.net servers like in the past this should be fine

still GRRRR!

By: Brady

Brady — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:56:51 +0000

an RTS that DOESN’T support LAN play…what the fuck is this a Red Alert 3 expansion? Truly ridiculous!

By: marty

marty — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:44:53 +0000

WE STILL EXIST.