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xHadoken
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States171 Posts
April 14 2012 10:14 GMT
#1
I'm not sure if Sc2 is having LAN in the new expansion or why they didn't add it in the initial release of the game itself but it seems that's one of the things its missing. From what I see they are not in total need for it but when you have those all-night gaming LANs and the Sc2 tournament starts around 4AM and the servers are undergoing maintenance it sucks because they have to rush it. That actually happened during one of the LANs I went to only it was LoL and not Sc2 but never the less it could happen to Sc2 just as easily. Also this reduces effort in a PC LAN when trying to find someone rather than making a chat channel (which is what I had to do in one tournament) and invite from there, you could host a game in the LAN section and it would be really easy to find. This is my first blog post so I just wanted to post something up because I have nothing better to do at 3:12AM and again I have no idea if they are bringing it in the new expansion (but I really hope they do).

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Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States329 Posts
April 14 2012 10:18 GMT
#2
brilliant idea you should tweet dBrow
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xHadoken
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States171 Posts
April 14 2012 10:19 GMT
#3
On April 14 2012 19:18 Foogazi wrote:
brilliant idea you should tweet dBrow

There are already petitions for this and I have no idea why blizzard is not listening
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Split.
Profile Joined September 2011
Switzerland234 Posts
April 14 2012 10:20 GMT
#4
There won't be LAN. It has been said so many times I can't even count that high. We might see saving and reloading games though.
xHadoken
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States171 Posts
April 14 2012 10:21 GMT
#5
On April 14 2012 19:18 Foogazi wrote:
brilliant idea you should tweet dBrow

and who is dBrow
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xHadoken
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States171 Posts
April 14 2012 10:22 GMT
#6
On April 14 2012 19:20 Split. wrote:
There won't be LAN. It has been said so many times I can't even count that high. We might see saving and reloading games though.

That sucks, did they ever announce why they weren't going to do it?
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Split.
Profile Joined September 2011
Switzerland234 Posts
April 14 2012 10:33 GMT
#7
On April 14 2012 19:22 xHadoken wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 14 2012 19:20 Split. wrote:
There won't be LAN. It has been said so many times I can't even count that high. We might see saving and reloading games though.

That sucks, did they ever announce why they weren't going to do it?

If I recall correctly they would have to rewrite the most of the game code because right now literally everything is going through the battlenet servers. Additionally they have low interest because of all the benefits that bnet gives them (e.g. monitoring and evaluation every single game of sc2 ever played is extremly valuable). Of course there are more, undisclosed, reasons that they won't tell to the public.
jimbob615
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Uruguay455 Posts
April 14 2012 10:56 GMT
#8
xHadoken, there was a big contractual dispute / lawsuit based on starcraft 1. people were using it without blizzard's permission (due to being able to play over lan) thats why there's none now in sc2
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-14 10:57:22
April 14 2012 10:56 GMT
#9
On April 14 2012 19:21 xHadoken wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 14 2012 19:18 Foogazi wrote:
brilliant idea you should tweet dBrow

and who is dBrow


Dustin Browder, lead designer...and awesome idea!
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xHadoken
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States171 Posts
April 14 2012 11:12 GMT
#10
On April 14 2012 19:56 jimbob615 wrote:
xHadoken, there was a big contractual dispute / lawsuit based on starcraft 1. people were using it without blizzard's permission (due to being able to play over lan) thats why there's none now in sc2

Well that is very interesting! I never knew about that thanks!
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Grovbolle
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Denmark3813 Posts
April 14 2012 12:45 GMT
#11
Not sure if trolling?

This has been discussed over and over again, we all wan't LAN, we can't have LAN because of pirates and so on and so on.
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bOneSeven
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Romania685 Posts
April 14 2012 12:53 GMT
#12
this is why Valve > Blizzard for making the better sequel of one famous game/mod.
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TheWorldToCome
Profile Joined January 2012
United States452 Posts
April 14 2012 13:20 GMT
#13
Wow sounds like a great feature this "LAN" is, unfortunately the technology just isn't there yet.
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Firesilver
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom1190 Posts
April 14 2012 13:41 GMT
#14
On April 14 2012 19:20 Split. wrote:
There won't be LAN. It has been said so many times I can't even count that high. We might see saving and reloading games though.


This. They've said it isn't going to happen, and yet there's still several threads after any disconnect about LAN.
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DKR
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom622 Posts
April 14 2012 14:54 GMT
#15
Ah man, why didn't the community think of this sooner to add to it's lists of wants
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nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3769 Posts
April 14 2012 15:07 GMT
#16
On April 14 2012 19:19 xHadoken wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 14 2012 19:18 Foogazi wrote:
brilliant idea you should tweet dBrow

There are already petitions for this and I have no idea why blizzard is not listening

Well - two reasons. 1 - Battle.net is in the center of everything and 2 - Blizzard can record everygame, ever, including GSL, DH or IPL. So - really - they can do all kind of analysis, data crunching blablabla on every progame in existence as well as amateur game.
Messi
Profile Joined September 2011
United States212 Posts
April 14 2012 15:59 GMT
#17
i mean LAN could be awesome, but to make LAN, it would be very difficult. First, to play sc2, we have to log in. Like BW, if we make a LAN, its gets complicated where people can play SC2 without buying them. I mean it gets confusing.
nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3769 Posts
April 15 2012 19:39 GMT
#18
I don't see an issue here.
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