StarCraft II to Officially Lack LAN Support

[dzulai]

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Blizzard cites piracy as one of the reasons to nix LAN support

With the upcoming release of Valve's Left 4 Dead 2 still causing some gamers to froth at the mouth, the latest announcement from another of gaming's darling developers Blizzard is sure to cause a fresh batch to bubble forth. After enduring the ire of loyal fans by splitting the sequel into a trilogy, Blizzard dropped the second proverbial Terran Nuke when it announced StarCraft II will not support LAN play, with multiplayer being exclusive to Blizzard's updated Battle.net service.

"We don't have any plans to support LAN," VP of game design Rob Pardo told IncGamers in an interview Sunday. This was later confirmed with a statement from Blizzard PR rep Bob Colayco:

We don’t currently plan to support LAN play with StarCraft II, as we are building Battle.net to be the ideal destination for multiplayer gaming with StarCraft II and future Blizzard Entertainment games. While this was a difficult decision for us, we felt that moving away from LAN play and directing players to our upgraded Battle.net service was the best option to ensure a quality multiplayer experience with StarCraft II and safeguard against piracy.

Several Battle.net features like advanced communication options, achievements, stat-tracking, and more, require players to be connected to the service, so we’re encouraging everyone to use Battle.net as much as possible to get the most out of StarCraft II. We’re looking forward to sharing more details about Battle.net and online functionality for StarCraft II in the near future.

Users of pirated copies of games will often utilize LAN-over-VPN programs or services, such as Hamachi, in order to form ad-hoc gaming communities. By removing the ability for LAN play, Blizzard hopes to nip this in the bud and bring more gamers to their revamped Battle.net service.

Thankfully, the rumors about Battle.net becoming a paid service are untrue for the moment; at least if you live in North America or the European Union. Pardo hinted that due to Asia being "a little different how they do things" some features might require microtransactions, similar to the ability to pay additional money to transfer servers in World of Warcraft.

StarCraft II is currently scheduled for a late-2009 release; as long as "it is ready."

source: DailyTech - The LAN-Party is Over, StarCraft II to Officially Lack LAN Support

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batia ani oi, dapat connect pa ka sa battle.net para makaduwa sa imong tapad. naa mn jud nai bayad ba kadugayan. grabe pangwartahay. giputol2x na gani og release ang campaign, wa pa jui LAN.

[j3thro]

antos lang ta dua ug Custom Game with AI ani, pero I think it's a good move against piracy and business wise for Blizzard. kinaglan gyud ka palit ug orig para maka dua sa battlenet. DOTA forever nalang gyud

Pero never say never, basin naa maka himo ug mod para maka LAN ang starcraft 2, hackers unite!!!

[ßattousai]

ni exist nani nga thread bai.. refer lang ani nga thread for more information sa Starcraft 2

https://www.istorya.net/forums/softwa...formation.html

[jiro]

No Lan - then it's official.
Id rather download the pirated version and play the missions then.

I has hopping to buy 2 copies and play offline with my brother, as if there's no CD key checking on LAN.

but with diablo3? it's ok kung wala LAN. id still buy it. we want to play it online. experience is much like warcraft.

eww blizzard. i'l never buy starcraft2. i hope razor can crack the lan version.
wait and see na lang.

[i.draw.fast]

bitaw, bogo man ni ang taga blizzard.

wala sila kaila ug private server/hacks/hamachi?

kadugay na nila sa industry pero wala kaila ani?

[xiao-xiao]

Garena (GG)

[.hack//sync]

bitaw, bogo man ni ang taga blizzard.

wala sila kaila ug private server/hacks/hamachi?

kadugay na nila sa industry pero wala kaila ani?

mu work ba ang hamachi if walay lan option?

[Lord_Ac]

Here's a summary of what most of you guys are doing.

- YOU Pirate SC/SC:Broodwar
- YOU Pirate Warcraft I, II, and III, and Frozen Throne
- YOU Pirate Diablo I, II, and Lord of Destruction
- Blizzard decides to take away LAN due to PIRATES
- YOU bitch about it.

Blizzard is not the one who's acting dumb. The pirates brought this among themselves. Don't blame Blizzard.

[linkinmark090791]

Garena (GG)

bitaw, bogo man ni ang taga blizzard.

wala sila kaila ug private server/hacks/hamachi?

kadugay na nila sa industry pero wala kaila ani?

murag di sad sila bogo bro, they wouldn't compensate on nixing the LAN if they know about garena, hamachi, etc3x..(which i'm sure they do)

garena and hamachi work as a virtual lan, silbi murag ang servers nila kay online na lan..so bisag naa pa ning mga garena etc2x, i don't think ang SCII kay makaduwa diri..

d iba sa WC3 naa may 'Battle.Net' ug 'Local Area Network' na options? ila ra nang ibtun ang 'Local Area Network' na option sa SCII para wa juy chance na maka garena..(kay diba dinha mn musud para mka connect sa garena?)

so mao na Battle.Net nlng ila i.paduwa para multiplayer, para 99.99999999999999999999999% sure na walay pirated multiplayer games.

but, wa ta kibaw, naa nyay hacking genius na maka himug private server na makapatch sa BNet itself..

mu work ba ang hamachi if walay lan option?

nope. i don't think so. see my above post.

[Lord_Ac]

No Lan - then it's official.
Id rather download the pirated version and play the missions then.

I has hopping to buy 2 copies and play offline with my brother, as if there's no CD key checking on LAN.

but with diablo3? it's ok kung wala LAN. id still buy it. we want to play it online. experience is much like warcraft.

eww blizzard. i'l never buy starcraft2. i hope razor can crack the lan version.
wait and see na lang.

LAN is still supported. You just need to login Battle.net first. You're only problem would be if you have no internet connection.. but I doubt that since you're here scrawling around iStorya.net.

And I hope razor/reloaded/vitality/ or any other groups won't be able to crack a lan version.