StarCraft II will not have LAN support.
Speaking with IncGamers, Blizzard’s vice president of game design Rob Pardo made it spectacularly clear that players won’t be able to play against each other the old way -- without the Internet. Instead, players will have to use the revolutionary Battle dot Net service to host, create and join matches.
“We don’t have plans to support LAN,” Pardo said shortly before putting the statement in stone with, “we will not support it.”
This, of course, comes with a caveat: IncGamers was speaking with a panel, and the other two guys, producer Chris Sigaty and lead designer Dustin Browder, weren’t so sure. They said Blizzard was still discussing it before Pardo answered.
Despite the disagreement within the panel, we’re sure StarCraft II won’t support LAN for a couple of reasons. First, Pardo knows. Second, this is the year 2009. This thing called the Internet lets people do all sorts of wild things like look at porn and play RTS games over it. Pretty hip, really.
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12:00 PM on 06.29.2009
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And considering how many starcraft fanms they are they should figure something out.
Since dont you have to pay for battle.net now?
What about the huge LAN tournaments they have in Korea and shit?
This is a fucking stupid-ass call. They better have some good fucking reasons for this shit.
LAN also helps when the internet is down or you have a slow connection. I'd rather not have eight players on my crappy DSL connection when I could just play over LAN.
@Jawmuncher: You never had to pay for battle.net as far as I know. Please don't tell me I'm gonna have to add "UNTIL NOW!!!" to the end of that. D:
amirite?
The game will still kick huge amounts of ass and sell like hotcakes so I doubt Blizzard is to worried about not including LAN. Plus I give it maybe a month at the most after release before either Blizzard caves and adds LAN in a patch or someone creates a 3rd Part LAN program for it.
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In Warcraft III, I can share a CD with everyone at a LAN party and use the same activation codes. To get on Battle.net, everyone needs their own CD and activation key.
Goooo, Pirates!!
They are killing themselves here. Idiotic.
If that's the reason why then this is a total dick move.
http://www.petitiononline.com/LANSC2/petition.html
I believe the Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 are bringing a new battle.net which requires you to pay to play online.
I could have sworn I read that somewhere.
Though it might still just be a rumor, though with activision I could see it happening since they would still make good money off of it
Just watch. It'll be like the sucky version of fireworks.
People still like to get together and this is a game that a good laptop can handle... I see no reason for not adding it, its just a couple more lines of code.
If this is true, then is absolutely stupid.
I'm glad I'm out of college, though. We used to exclusively play LAN games, because our University blocked the bnet ports needed. That's going to suck hard for a lot of other people in that situation.
"But moooom"
"No buts."
On a more serious note:
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Let's try that again:
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Okay, I'll admit, it does reduce piracy by preventing multiplayer at all without a legit copy, but that's just a ridiculous measure.
I dont get it, not even piracy is a factor here.
Perhaps this is their trick to get everyone online, so they can brag about how many users they have online. They want the stats, to please the suits and share holders, just like with WoW.
Well, should be interesting to see those S.Korean sales of Star Craft 2. It probably won't stop them, mind. This game series is like crack out there, and ActiBliz will enjoy pushing it.
So let me get some things straight. SC2 is split into three games, one for each race's single player mode, and you can do MP from the box with it, but only on BNet? When most people think of LAN parties, the first things that come to mind are almost always Counterstrike and StarCraft first. It's too bad they're going to really alienate the fans this way, but anything to combat piracy, I guess. *shrugs*
GG Blizzard
How could such a successful company make such arbitrary and utterly stupid decisions?
Its nonsense.
My buddies were stoked about this and I was going to pick it up to play along but this is shitty ass news.
Piracy is a bullshit reason, it'll still get pirated out of the ass like most big games but Starcraft 2 will sell millions upon millions anyway (though potentially a lot less after this announcement).