Lan 100% Confirmed For Televised Korean Tournaments

[//MavericK\\]

I don't live in Korea or Mexico. As far as I've seen, I don't have to pay anything additionally beyond buying the game itself. I also think LAN is only appropriate for major televised tournaments, and unnecessary elsewhere.

Yeah...I have to agree. I'm personally never going to use LAN...so it has never been a sore subject for me.

I am inclined however to agree with past posts that this favoring of S. Korea is kind of irritating. Everyone or no one in my book.

[ArcherofAiur]

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

LOL this line of thought reminds me of

Hidden Content:

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

Oh nice your trying to shift the blame for Blizzard not providing LAN support on to colleges.

[protoswarrior]

Oh nice your trying to shift the blame for Blizzard not providing LAN support on to colleges.

Archer... piracy at colleges and university lan parties? That's a fact that's where it happens. The thing is Blizzard conceives it happening too much at those locations, but I'm not pinpointing any particular source - just one of them - for piracy, that is. That may be one of the reasons for Dauntless' approach. I'm just saying.

[SlickR]

Archer... piracy at colleges and university lan parties? That's a fact that's where it happens. The thing is Blizzard conceives it happening too much at those locations, but I'm not pinpointing any particular source - just one of them - for piracy, that is. That may be one of the reasons for Dauntless' approach. I'm just saying.

What happened to "we want to promote pirates to buy our game by offering them more compelling experience with the original game"?

How is it no LAN helping blizzard make pirates actually want to buy the original game, rather than downloading it illegally and playing lan with a crack? HUH?
Where is your logic here?

WTH are you people even talking about, going on defending blizzard for reducing your experience?

I won't use LAN ever in SC2 or in any other game, because I'm all over it and I only used it when younger, but why not have the ability with a 20 years old technology, if i give a damn to be able to play LAN????? WHY OH WHY?

Why are you people doing this?
Its like stealing from yourself. WT*?

[ArcherofAiur]

Archer... piracy at colleges and university lan parties? That's a fact that's where it happens. The thing is Blizzard conceives it happening too much at those locations, but I'm not pinpointing any particular source - just one of them - for piracy, that is. That may be one of the reasons for Dauntless' approach. I'm just saying.

Yes yes piracy profits "its a business" weve heard all that before. However Id rather talk about the quality of the gameplay experience rather than the quantity of Activisonblizzard's stock index. If Blizzard says "Hey look this new battlenet is so good you wouldnt want to have LAN!" Im going to tell them they are wrong and why.

[Rizhall]

This is the most well thought out post I've seen on the subject. THIS makes me upset that we don't have LAN. This post brings it home without a bunch of whining and vilifying.

These are real reasons and I hope you are sharing this thought process and argument on the official forums.

I... I don't have an account on the official forums, since I lost my CD Key ^^
I wouldn't mind someone else posting it for me though.

[Crazy_Jonny]

This is not news. Who honestly didn't see LAN for pro tournaments coming?

[Alex06]

Stuff like this drives me absolutely nuts. This "LAN edition" is 100 % because of the community bitching. You think they had this planned? Hell no. Now, I'm going to get to read posts like this all the time, because for some reason people can't just be happy. Ever. EVERRRRRRRRRR AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Yeah, but WE also wanted to be able to use LAN. What if me and my friends organize and unofficial tournament? We can't do that now! All tournaments are now only official! And, as a bonus to that, they want to make us pay if we want to organize tournaments, so that it'll use the new BNet 2.0 tournament feature.

Why is this necessary? WarCraft III had LAN and lots of people still play it online.

As a response to this, I'm afraid Blizzard will hurt their sales. Some people will just wait for the leaked version of the Tournament edition and download that.

[hyde]

Meh who cares. At this point, Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime have us by the balls. Just wait for the pirates. The Pro Edition will get leaked out if they mass produce it any CD Factory. Someone will just make a copy right there and smuggle the image out.
He'll bit torrent it out and someone will just rip the netcode or crack the pro edition.
If they can crack/emulate WoW, a puny RTS game with generic net code is mere peanuts.



I don't know what's all the fuss about for the pricing though. All this korean stuff is....for korea. A completely different country with a currency rate at

1.00 USD = 1,215.02 KRW
South Korean minimium wage : 4,110 South Korean won per hour
So that's 3.82$USD/Hour.
Minimium wage here in Calgary, Canada is about 8.50$USD/Hour.
People at the GAP or a mall make about 9$USD/hour in Canada.
So a Canadian works 6 hours or so for SC2...a Korean works 15 Hours for his copy of SC2. That's basically two shifts.
And for people who are unaware, food and services are usually in scale in the respective countries. A Big Mac is around 1.90$USD in Asia, it's 3.50$+ in USA, 3.99$ In Canada. But these import items don't scale with their currency, that's why it is also a big deal for them to suddenly blow 70$USD on a video game.

Considering it's expensive/impractical owning a PC, and the PC Bangs (PC cafes) are so popular there....maybe they will actually like the subscription service, etc there.
People have different cultures <GASP> . In North America, people buy their phones on contract and lock themselves into years....outside..people BUY out their phones. Buying an unlocked GSM for 599$USD is the norm in most countries outside of North America. So..GASP! This subscription service might APPEAL to that specific market.
Samething here...Canada doesn't have SuperSize options at our McDonalds (Our Supersize is just LARGE in America) ....same deal..

[SaharaDrac]

If you're waiting for LAN, grow up. You no longer live in 1998. That's all.