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Starcraft 2 bids farewell to LAN, hello Battle.net! – with HD Gameplay Video

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In the recent Blizzard’s conference, Starcraft II VP game designer Rob Pardo has officially announced that the local area network (LAN) support will not exist in this highly anticipated sequel of Starcraft, where the LAN feature actually has been the one who has helped the popularity of this game. Instead, the developers are pushing the users to use the Battle.net services to be able to utilize the online multiplayer capability.

According to this petition online, here’s the major reasons why to keep the LAN:

  • There are still many that don’t have internet access with the required speed to play without lag, or would like to play with a friend or sibling residing in the same house. LAN is NOT an expensive upgrade, and once you have it, it’s yours.
  • LAN is what birthed SC popularity in the first place. Please don’t ignore the heritage of the original game.
  • Using LAN is a little bit of freedom. Often you might be at a friend’s place with the only option to ad hoc the wireless connections instead of using internet, excluding the Battle.net gaming possibility.
  • There are little to no ill effects in implementing LAN compared to the advantages. Just look at SC1 now. Even with a laggy Battle.net, it is still selling so well that it once again reached top-10 on the NPD charts a decade after its release!
  • LAN is a vital part of what makes StarCraft so great, and what will make StarCraft II even greater. It’s the sort of freedom we have come to expect from Blizzard Entertainment.

Don’t let this milestone in gaming history be forgotten by their ignorance or greediness! If you would like to support the online petition for the LAN support, visit http://www.petitiononline.com/LANSC2/petition.html

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4 Responses to “Starcraft 2 bids farewell to LAN, hello Battle.net! – with HD Gameplay Video”

  1. hasan Says:
    July 8th, 2009 at 7:40 am

    Hi i found an intersting LANoi software to support LAN PC games to play with online friends.Its not like hamachi or tungle which many of us know,because it supports.Star craft version can also bbe played in LANoi. LANoi already supports cs1.6,Quake 1,2,3,4,War craft 3,callofDuty,Rainbow six vegas,Heros of might and magic and also i think many more hope ur blog readers may enjoy it.for help orange.walkin@gmail.com

  2. GM_Mogh Says:
    July 8th, 2009 at 8:21 am

    i’ll check this LAnoi soon, it seems a good alternative to Hamachi or Garena…thanks!

  3. hasan Says:
    July 8th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

    Guys sorry i dint give the url of the software to download. http://www.lanoninternet.com …Thanks for admint to display this on blog.The important thing of this software is it is able to play games which others like hamachi etc failed to play or need some advanced configuration to be read and applied,this is what disgusting for novoice users

  4. Rex Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 1:42 am

    Hasan I get an error when I try to make an invite file :(

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