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the only reason people cared about lan, was because most people were connecting to the net through dial-up still. hook up to a router and find each other on battle net like everyone else.

ChilePepino Posted:

That’s a pretty cool Blizzard imo

I used to always get the Oreo Blizzard, but I had the Heath Bar Blizzard once and it was very good. M&M one has a nice crunch.

yeah, Blizzards aren’t exactly my favorite kind of ice cream but still pretty cool. My favorite is either the bumerfingers or Snickers or maybe the cheesecake and strawberry one.

lan gaming is of course better than online gaming, you can feel the “atmosphere”

although that is mostly the smell of cigarette and urine

wildfire393 Posted:

There’s nothing stopping multiple people in the same network from simply going on Battle.net and joining the same game. The only difference is that this requires that each person have a unique CD key.

As I recall, Warcraft 3 handles people on LAN in your Battle.net games fine. Starcraft ****s up royally and it’s annoying to try to play with multiple people behind one router because the game can’t figure out how to send packets to the right people. I’m guessing Starcraft 2 will work fine.

As for lacking LAN play, I’m confident that someone will release a hack that lets you connect just fine, just as I’m confident there will still be free B.net servers that don’t need CD-keys.

KaaVink Posted:

I’m also sure that’s going to happen. Problem is, that means Blizzard’s reasoning behind this move is flawed, since it encourages piracy more than it deters it.

the same can be said for almost all modern anti-piracy measures

So really this is no different than Valve’s Steam content delivery/DRM software. Not that big a deal, people.

Everyone hates stuff like that but Steam works (rough start but everyone has learned from its horrible issues off the bat) and Blizzard knows they will get the entire asian population murderously angry if they screw it up.

I used to be one of the like seven people in north america who play computer games and didn’t have an internet connection so I know the trauma of getting a game not being able to do anything because it needs to be online. In principle it’s a stupid, unneeded intrusion.

However, it’s hard NOT to have an internet connection nowadays. Even if you don’t, your neighbors probably have wifi you can borrow to get online to activate your stuff.