A few weeks ago, Blizzard announced that there would be no LAN play for StarCraft II. While there have been online petitions and forums swamped with trying to change Blizzard's mind about it, the reasonable has been done by respectable sources, and a generic, but reasonable answer was given:
"We 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."
In case you didn't get the links, one was here at Ars Technica and here at Kotaku.
~Koubo
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ReplyDeleteAs depressing as no LAN support is, I can understand where Blizzard is coming from. With how popular their games are, they had to find some way to prevent people from pirating the games. It's kind of like what Sega did with Phantasy Star Universe. You could only play multiplayer mode online. That way, they could check the game to make sure you hadn't altered it in any way.
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