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MinscandBoo
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Spicy_Curry
United States10573 Posts
On February 27 2012 12:00 MinscandBoo wrote: i find it amusing tho that on their sc2 facebook page they often refer to events as 'LAN parties'. Which they obviously cannot be we should phase out lan party and instead call them bnet parties | ||
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Spieltor
327 Posts
adding network capability onto an existing program (sc2) is just as difficult as adding it onto starter programmers' tetris clones. In other words, it never gets harder. they just don't want to do it. | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
On February 27 2012 09:30 mrafaeldie12 wrote: Sometimes orders come from above. Exactly. We keep complaining to David Kim and Dustin Browder and friends about LAN, and I'm pretty sure that they too are tired of seeing tournament after tournament run into internet issues at the worst of times. However, I have a feeling that they have an ultimatum from higher up in the corporate bureaucracy to always give a round-about excuse about not including LAN. We can pressure the game developers all we want about including LAN, and perhaps they even secretly want LAN. However, in the end they aren't the ones calling the shots on this issue. LAN won't happen. It never will. The executives at Activision-Blizzard have made their decision, and it near impossible that any amount of complaints from the consumers or the game developers will change their mind. The best thing to hope for is for the game developers to implement measures to compensate for the problems caused by the lack of LAN, such as the ability to rejoin dropped games or being much more proactive about not blacklisting big LAN events. | ||
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xenobarf
Sweden47 Posts
Overall there is a pretty god damn simple solution that should leave both parties happy. No one says LAN mode has to exist without battle.net. Why not just intergrate both, if there is a LAN custom game mode INSIDE battle.net. A custom mode that allows people to connect peer to peer once the actual game starts but requires battle.net to start the game. This way no one gets lag or gets dropped even if some party of the game loses connection to battle.net. Once the game is over you have to be on battle.net again to make a new LAN game. This satisfies both parties since we both get LAN and Blizzard can keep their battlenet. If anyone is going to tell me this isnt easy to code or whatever, Blizzard has their own fucking codemonkey team JUST for battlenet, they have the resources and its not something farfetched (peer to peer gaming that uses a client to find players to play with is nothing new). | ||
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StarStruck
25339 Posts
On February 27 2012 15:46 Spicy_Curry wrote: we should phase out lan party and instead call them bnet parties I'm in favor of this motion. AYE! | ||
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RevThirteen
Sweden116 Posts
Watching IPL 4 now and i'm getting so fucking pissed when it all gets ruined because of an internet connection issue, not even a computer issue! It's not even IPL's fault! WAKE THE FUCK UP BLIZZARD! | ||
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Buffy
Sweden665 Posts
And saw someone earlier comment about activison, if you knew anything about it all you would know about how Vivendi told Activsion got told not to touch the goldenboy Blizzard. | ||
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T0fuuu
Australia2275 Posts
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