Starcraft 2 to have no lan play

[stix]

One of the reasons Starcraft is still such a big hit at LAN parties is that, like most “older” PC titles, it supports multiplayer over a local network. Starcraft II will do no such thing.

Blizzard’s Rob Pardo has said “we don’t have any plans to support LAN… we will not support it”. Which for anyone that still lugs their PC around for LAN parties means no, Starcraft II won’t be on your LAN party menu. If you want to play against other humans, it’ll have to be done via Blizzard’s online gaming portal Battle.net.

Which will no doubt be crushing to LAN party fiends… if, that is, they still exist.

Source: No LAN Play For Starcraft II | Kotaku Australia

[SeeKeR]

yea i read that, huge fuckin piss off they will prob release 1 for comps n shit tho.

if not then some1 will crack it for lan

[feetman]

LoL, all my mates are going to kill themselves.

[the_vege]

I've been doing quite abit of reading on this, and afaik all this means is that you will need to logon to the internet in order to play a game. Abit like steam - except with no offline mode.

So, say you are at a LAN in order to play multiplayer you must logon to b.net 2.0, along with your friend and then once the game has started, the online game room is no longer required, and you play at LAN latency.

However, it is still a stupid idea. The internet is not everywhere yet, and there are normally quite a lot of networking issues at the LAN's iv'e been too.

[SeeKeR]

yea its not looking to good atm

[taipan]

yep ..

[cP$:]]

Will only be a matter of time before somebody takes the matter in their own hands anyway..

[Heath4n]

ballsy, if anyone could pull off something as controversial as this though its blizzard.

It's DOTA that has them scared.

[hixxy]

[SeeKeR]

hahaha epic

[brando]

hixxy - Show them who's boss btw what did they reply with?.

[Cheeseball]

There will be ways around it, like hosting a gateway/server from your PC and just using and playing on that.

[taipan]

keen for sc2 team






;p

[Cheeseball]

I read somewhere that B.NET will have a lan feature as part of it. So you need to log into battle net then host a lan game or however it works, but it will still be lan.

Just an anti-piracy thing

[taipan]

yeah they are cheeseball i read it but cant find the article again

[Pbx_Jnr]

the koreans are gonna be PISSED

[Fiend~]

Wow that's pretty fucked. Me and a few mates used to play 2v2 starcraft at lan. It was fun as.

[Cheeseball]

Wow that's pretty fucked. Me and a few mates used to play 2v2 starcraft at lan. It was fun as.

Did you not read the thread? THERE WILL STILL BE A LAN FUNCTION VIA BATTLE NET

[11411181]

Did you not read the thread? THERE WILL STILL BE A LAN FUNCTION VIA BATTLE NET

So....it's like hamachi. LAN ON TEH INTERWEBZ


lol.

[Stryker_-]

wow thats fucking gay

[Cheeseball]

So....it's like hamachi. LAN ON TEH INTERWEBZ


lol.

No it's not, it DOESN'T PLAY OVER THE INTERNET, just to access the LAN feature you need to log into b.net first

[11411181]

No it's not, it DOESN'T PLAY OVER THE INTERNET, just to access the LAN feature you need to log into b.net first

I'm aware, but still requiring an online connection for anything LAN is fail -_-

[Cheeseball]

I'm aware, but still requiring an online connection for anything LAN is fail -_-

Reminds me how you need the internet to log into steam, and they turn on offline mode

[11411181]

Reminds me how you need the internet to log into steam, and they turn on offline mode

That tends to come and go for me on my laptop. Most of the time, it'll do it ok and then there will be times where it doesnt want a bar of it >_<

[Mooseclimb]

Fucking pwned. Nice bro +rep.