Lan 100% Confirmed For Televised Korean Tournaments

[hyde]

"Yes, yes! I can smell the return on investment already! 2$ Day passes for StarCraft 2. Monetized LAN. Next, StarCraft LAND IN KOREA!! YESSSS!!!!!!!"






"Guys, don't worry. We've listened to the community and we're putting the comments into consideration. But I'm with Bobby on this one, I want my own StarCraft jet"



I am not surprised at this. Acti Blizz's actions on SC2 have been strictly motivated from DRM and monetization. That 2$ pass is hilarious, it's basically 100% revenue. You know the return on a game is less than 5$ USD on launch? This doesn't apply to AAA Titles because they make break-even in a day (Modern Warfare 2). So can you imagine people on an international flight in Korea? Pay 2$ and you get StarCraft access. LMAO.

But you know what, this will continue on and simply get "Worse". There is a market for 25$ WoW mounts, there is a market for 15$ Map Packs, there is a market for 2$ day passes on SC2. Get over it guys. Yes LAN is still gone but essentially nothing has changed, and this is exclusive to Korea.
This might look like 'pure evil' in some people's eyes, but offering different price points in a different economic setting is a no brainer. I'm sure there are some broke ass students in Korea who cannot muster 70$USD to pay for a freaking video game. Even if they pulled this in America...the majority of us would simply buy the 59$ Copy....End of Story.


P.S. Archer of Aiur, are you trying to get a job with Fox News? You have very misleading thread titles, sometimes they are 'true' (And only in the up most literal sense) but you sure do take the Fox News spin on everything. LAN is hardly 100% confirmed, it's only on Televised SC2 tournaments. That isn't the traditional method of LAN. Most people's conceptions of LAN is that they can sit down together and play a LAN game. This is more like an extreme exception. But don't worry, we all know your posts are "Fair and Balanced".

[DemolitionSquid]

I've compared Archer to Fox many, many times.

[ArcherofAiur]

You just wait till I get my chalk board.

[protoswarrior]

*NO SUBSCRIPTION FEES FOR N.A.
*ALL THE ABOVE ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE FOR KOREAN'S AND TAIWANESE FOR NOW.
*YOU DON'T BUY THE PRO VERSION UNLESS YOU'RE ORGANIZING TOURNAMENTS OR ARE A PRO-GAMER.

This should about cover it.

[killermofo]

$2 here is probably more like $5-$10 there. $70 divided by $2, that's about 35 days worth of sc2, without campaign.

It's a over-priced carnival ride if you ask me. But if there is a market for it then..

E-sport's needs to turn to advertising sponsorship from corporations to fuel it's fire,
instead of feeding off the masses.

Starcraft2 Professional Edition will be available worldwide I am fairly sure.. and if a cyber-cafe in san jose, CA wants to charge you $2 (hah, more like $10) to play sc2 on their comps all day, so be it.

[Dauntless]

Whine whine whine. That's all some of you whiners do. Many of you sound like younger siblings. "Why can he stay up longer, when I have to go to bed?! Waaaah! WAAAAH!".

Damnit, get a grain of reason into your heads. It's like the game will be unplayable because they excluded LAN. Blizzard will be still iterating on Battle.net for many many years from now. The chances of us not seeing some kind of pseudo-lan a year or so after The Legacy Of The Void is, in my eyes, slim. If you have a stable Internet connection, the only time you can't play StarCraft II is during maintenance. Other than that you can play all the time, with everyone else that has a stable Internet connection.

Now quit the whine, and post something constructive.

[SlickR]

They are starting with only taiwan and Korea and are going to give it out to other places once they see necessary.

Yes, Maybe I will have super powers in 30 years, I should be very happy with it, I'm a mindless robot that can't think for himself and I'm being controlled.

Come on, give me a break, give your self a boost and stop talking BS.

Maybe, than, after, future, probably, why you spitting these words? Are you in touch with reality here?

There is nothing at launch, no lan, no chat, no cross-servers, no privacy, shitty custom search and replay search, shitty and restrictive map uploading features, crazy TOS that doesn't care a bit about customer rights and makes blizzard own our lives and so on...

Why are you so happy about everything we DIDN'T GET???????

Why is it you are so happy they removed features that were available 12 years ago?

Why do you insist they are going to happen when they haven't happen already? Who guarantees you "some" features will be added and that they will be like the public wants them?

The simple and pure FACT is that they REMOVED features bnet 1 had from 12 years ago, removed all privacy, made bent 2.0 easy for future monetization, made it legally sound for them to steal your hard work map and introduced cheap, eyes filling privacy trashing facebook integration!!!!

What more do you want? For Blizzard to state in their TOS that they can take your house and all income for the rest of your life if you purchase their game and knowing that none of us actually don't read that stuff we are going to be giving our lifes to blizzard and maybe some will like it .

!!!!!! GET REAL !!!!!!

[ArcherofAiur]

The chances of us not seeing some kind of pseudo-lan a year or so after The Legacy Of The Void is, in my eyes, slim.

Blizzard has said they arnt doing pseudo lan.

If you have a stable Internet connection, the only time you can't play StarCraft II is during maintenance. Other than that you can play all the time, with everyone else that has a stable Internet connection.

Unless you go to a college that blocks that kind of thing.



Also it really is humorous looking at all the "maybe" "probably" "theyll fix it someday" mentality even when Blizzard has blatently stated they wont. Also to my knowlege there has been no information pointing to this pro edition ever being outside korea so people stating matter of factly that it will be are also pipe dreaming.

[Dauntless]

Blizzard has said they arnt doing pseudo lan.



Unless you go to a college that blocks that kind of thing.



Also it really is humorous looking at all the "maybe" "probably" "theyll fix it someday" mentality even when Blizzard has blatently stated they wont. Also to my knowlege there has been no information pointing to this pro edition ever being outside korea so people stating matter of factly that it will be are also pipe dreaming.

They only stated that they aren't planning it _right now_. Which is not the same as stating that they will never do it.

If they block that kind of thing on a college, maybe there's a reason for it?

[DemolitionSquid]

For the first time ever, I agree with SlickR.

Of course, I'm far more eloquent than he.