that would suck ... ;x

no lan = wouldn't be so popular/played sc2

Well imho LAN play wouldn't be THAT much affected. The bad things would be if the venue doesn't have internet or the connection drops. That way the games could get affected =/

LOL, 1 reason more I'll play wc3 for longer then I thought...

WoW that would suck...
It's fun to play on LAN at a friend's... it's faster (and we all HATE the battlenet disconnection losses which affect our ladder ranking... or a just simply annoying).

wtf is going on over there?

Maybe it will not be included in the game, and they rather plan on providing a separate dedicated server software later on. I cannot see an e-Sport game without some way of playing on LAN, especially not SC2 :)

btw, I think ID should/will do the same for QLive...

stupid idea, but useful against pirates

They arent retarded, the reason is money.
Just notice, how much clients (read: costumers of wc3 original disc) blizzard loses with discovering such platforms as ICCup, GGC, some chinese program, even Hamachi. All of them allow people to play the game through internet without having original disc. Blizzard just want to disable possibility to use 3rd part software. They dont want to lose $_$
Maybe battle.net will have some options special for LAN games, who knows. But to enter battle.net you will need to have registered copy.
Thats my opinion.

Suck my balls Blizzard! Bring SC2 to LAN dammit!

that would suck...sc was my 1st lan game ever... we hookup 4pc together in 1 room, and played this game for 2 days :D
sweet memories :D

What no lan... this will suck.

Maybe Blizzard will change it's mind )

Good call by Blizzard; I rather c the developers come up with ways to protect themselves from pirates than to c piracy get illegal all over the world.

i play on garena and i have a legitimate copy of wc3, and if its so important, why did they build in a cd crack to wc3?

Blizzard, SUCK MY BALLS PLZ

Emulation battle.net or "internet" connection to the server and HF :)

ok Blizzard are cool and everything , but thats just fucking retarded ...no SC2 lan and no D3 lan WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!????



Sorry for the swearing. I had to.

haha

sux =/

Money again

Fuck you blizzard , i hope u choke into ur own vomit.If u think that because Starcraft , Warcraft , Diablo were so successful games and now just because ur name is Blizzard all ur crap is gonna be famous and popular - it wont be for long I tell you

You see blizzard doesn't understand. The esports scene especially for starcraft is built on LAN. Look at all the tournaments in Korea. They are all using LAN. How do they expect the players to play without LAN and deal with all that lag? Even if the new Battle Net reduces lag, its still gonna have lag and for players that don't have good internet connection, it doesn't matter how close you are living you are still gonna have lag. And its impossible for pros to show their true abilities with lag! I have a feeling that since Blizzard merged with Activision they are just interested in money. Im already not happy with the idea that Starcraft 2 is gonna be released in a trilogy and now you add this no LAN shit? Are you kidding me? The reason why ICC cup and Garena have been more popular than BattleNet is because BattleNet just plain sucks!

thats kinda sad. making this wide game, and none applications to it.

Blizzard does that for one reason... earning even more money :S

I know a group of friends that play sc1 only in LAN, cuz they only like playing multiplayer games between friends and they don't have the need to join b.net to do so. Then, they only need 1 CD-Key for playing in LAN... In SC2 playing in LAN won't be possible, so my friends will have to buy 5 SC2 if they want to continue playing together, since the only way to play multiplayer games will be B.net, which requieres different CD-Keys for each one...

The question is... ¿will my friends buy 5 SC2 or stay in SC1 if the only thing they want is having some fun from time to time? I think they'll choose the second option, as many ppl will do.

fu blizzard,

I don't get companies they punish the ones that do have it legally!

this game i don`t like... so i think blizzard need very much money

If we were all hooked up on internet using fiber optics... there would be no problem... BUT, it's not the case and Bnet servers suck.

at least there will be no dota in sc2 because of that, and iccup will still exist, becaause it doesnt use lan, but clone of bnet, but anyway BLIZZARD SUCK MY BALLS. GREEDISNOTGOOD

thats maybe true, another strategy to let ppl buy part II...

sad news i think, the server has to be top, when the players shouldnt scream for Garena etc..

ok, i agree but than they should fucking work hard for a good connection on bnet!! because compared to garena Bnet sux now

Don't worry Blizzard, if you want to make us look like a bunch of dumbasses watching stupid in-game ads instead of providing us a quality release then we will bend you over and take you to brown town. The most funny thing is that all private SC servers are connecting in a similar way as we all connect to BNet. What is the point of all this stuff? Maybe they want to give us LAN option in an expansion set? That would be sick or maybe I should say "retarded". There is one general truth - if you want money, you lose everything else. I don't think Blizzard wants to lose us - fanbase and money at the same time.

uhm wtf.. I can't believe they're gonna do this, I mean.. my friends and I play StarCraft 2 on lan every now and then, and we usually meet up in someones basement where there's plenty of room for all of us to set up. So we'd have to install internet down in the basement, just to play SC2 on lan :s!?.. I mean.. also for people that just don't have internet at all.. then there's no multiplayer for them? I really don't believe there will be no LAN support in the sequal for STARCRAFT, gods sake this game is overly popular for lans and everywhere.

mhm not bad=]