Lan 100% Confirmed For Televised Korean Tournaments

[mikill]

How many of you have the NEED of LAN? Why does battle.net 2.0 not fulfill that need? What would it need to do to fulfill that need? Having a professional LAN version for big events was one of the necessary things with SC2, since (as we saw) if bnet goes down for a big event its a big deal that cost money for all involved, even the players.

Maybe we should have a poll on who wants LAN and who does not.

[TheRabidDeer]

Maybe we should have a poll on who wants LAN and who does not.

I am sure everybody wants LAN, just to have it... but the question on if you need it or not. Remember, putting LAN in costs us nothing, but can cost Blizzard a decent chunk.

[ArcherofAiur]

I am sure everybody wants LAN, just to have it... but the question on if you need it or not. Remember, putting LAN in costs us nothing, but can cost Blizzard a decent chunk.

Here is a big question. Say Starcraft 2 was cracked tomro. Its on a torrent all over the internet with LAN capability.


Now, given this hypothetical, should Blizzard include LAN?

[silencbank]

Here is a big question. Say Starcraft 2 was cracked tomro. Its on a torrent all over the internet with LAN capability.

Now, given this hypothetical, should Blizzard include LAN?

Depends on what the pirates actually have in the game. If they hack it like they did SC1, you could play single player and custom games. You got stuck in this one weird 'you and no one else' chat room and could only play if someone else knew your name. Since in order to ladder you have to crack the game AND the BNET server this pirated LAN would not be a reason for Blizzard to include LAN.

I kind of get the feeling that the people who say that the game is going to be pirated anyway, like the pirates. And I wonder if the people are so up in arms about this because they wonder "why should we suffer for other people's stupidity?". There are tons of laws today that were developed because of other people's stupidity. Speed limits, yellow lines on roads, can not kill people, can not steal from people, the list goes on and on. If there were not stupid people that tried to cut as many legal corners as possible we would be able to self govern ourselves and will never have to worry about stuff like this. But there are people that do that stuff, so the people who just want the option to use something can not because some bastard used it to make an explosive device or some random thing. To me there are more important things that stupid people do that cause me to worry than LAN.

[don]

How many of you have the NEED of LAN? Why does battle.net 2.0 not fulfill that need? What would it need to do to fulfill that need? Having a professional LAN version for big events was one of the necessary things with SC2, since (as we saw) if bnet goes down for a big event its a big deal that cost money for all involved, even the players.

LAN support is needed by people who want to play the game in a LAN network with LAN latency. They don't have to be in an event. They don't have to be professional gamers.

[Dauntless]

People who want to play the game in a LAN network with LAN latency might very well be pirates. They might also not be pirates, and those players deserve LAN latency. Through pseudo-lan on Battle.net!

[ArcherofAiur]

Through pseudo-lan on Battle.net!

Except Blizzard has stated that they are not doing pseudo lan for Battle.net. They had said they would before but then they went back on that.

[Dauntless]

Except Blizzard has stated that they are not doing pseudo lan for Battle.net. They had said they would before but then they went back on that.

And they might reconsider. They will, after all, release three versions of this game.

[ArcherofAiur]

And they might reconsider. They will, after all, release three versions of this game.

They might start making cheap toasters instead of video games.

[Dauntless]

They might start making cheap toasters instead of video games.

And you might make a post that's worth reading.