Comments on: No LAN for StarCraft 2 – WTF Blizzard?

By: John

John — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:49:09 +0000

Found your site just now- really great, thanks!

By: Ishmael

Ishmael — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:40:06 +0000

DUDE!!!! its 2010 and SC2 has been split into three games with out LAN, theirs no word from blizz and the beta is “expected” this year… if this becomes ghost “the second cumming” imna freak out!

By: koew

koew — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:25:43 +0000

Thanks for the links, Starly. I’m looking forward to play the campaign, but the multiplayer is actually the real reason I’d get this game. I’ve got a score to settle with Haltemien, and I can’t stop untill I’m in the lead. Current score (him vs me): 6-1.

By: Starly Jackson

Starly Jackson — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:32:17 +0000

StarCraft II Content Drop 111809 | by XG3 We’ve just uploaded new intel to the StarCraft II website This

starcraft2com 5/6/2009 How do I sign up for the StarCraft II beta? In order to sign up for the StarCraft II beta, you first need to register a Battlenet account You

starcraft2com 4/17/2009 Welcome to the latest installment of Blizzard Entertainment’s official shoutcast for StarCraft II, currently in the alpha phase of development

By: Wayne Barker (South Africa)

Wayne Barker (South Africa) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:49:25 +0000

hmmm, i think i have found out why Blizzard is taking out LAN. It has nothing todo with piracy…well not in the way most of us are thinking about it. I applogise if this is old news but it just clicked for me now.

StarCraft is huge in korea. Just take a peak at this vid. They have huge tournaments that get broadcasted.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6648934043675888354

In any case it seems that Blizzard is upset because their product Starcraft is being used on TV without their permission and they are not getting a slice of the action, no royalty….So how do they make sure that they can regain control with their next release of starcraft?…thats right take LAN out and force everyone to play via B.Net then Blizzard can control things again and force broadcasters to share the profit…pay or we cut your connection. They can also goes as far as to try and become the E-sports organisers them selfs taking the whole pie for them selfs.

By: koew

koew — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:42:14 +0000

Thanks for mentioning this, Tim. The only numbers I could find was from petitiononline. The petition got 78 045 signatures as of this moment. I don't believe they'll actually lose millions; they are, after all, Blizzard Entertainment. But I do belive it won't work with the new Battle.net when there's giant SC2-compos on LAN parties.

By: Tim Bayliss

Tim Bayliss — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:34:24 +0000

As of Tuesday 21st July, it is now 80,000 signatures on the petition.

If Blizzard don’t add LAN support. They will lose millions in sales.

And whoever made this decision is possibly the most stupid person ever to live.

They should be immediately sacked.

By: Aouri

Aouri — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:55:52 +0000

WTF?? huh huh huh huh…. BattleNET next? Sucks… I wont buy Starcraft if it doesn’t support LAN which should be normal by now…

By: Sigg3

Sigg3 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:42:42 +0000

It’s all WEB 2.0 and WoW these days.. Kids today would never get an IPX game working..