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That hopefully means that B-net 2.0 allows for you to customize the latency yourself.
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Really doesn't affect me as I got access to internet. It won't affect pro leagues either as long as you are sanctioned by Blizzard. Sanctioned leagues will most likely get their own Bnet servers.
I feel bad for those that have less than stellar internet access though. This doesn't really come as a surprise though; Blizzard wants to focus the whole community in one place, and this will also help combat piracy somewhat. Sure, there will be private servers, but as long as they shut down the more popular ones, private servers will be unattractive for most players.
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On June 29 2009 18:32 Klockan3 wrote: That hopefully means that B-net 2.0 allows for you to customize the latency yourself. Its been 11 years. Latency will not be an issue on b.net 2.0. Or at worst online latency will be better than sc1 LAN latency. The amount of net coding blizzard has learned in the last 11 years makes me positive of this.
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This is so dumb, Sc2 is slowly getting worse and worse imo
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Blizzards counter to Hamachi?
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On June 29 2009 18:35 Eury wrote: I feel bad for those that have less than stellar internet access though. Why? They can still play as if it was a Lan. As long as all of them logs into B-net the host is still the one everyone connects to in the game so the game would play just as if it were a Lan as long as you can set the latency to whatever you want.
The difference is of course that piracy gets harder which is good.
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I think we should wait until more information on B.Net 2.0 is reveled before we pass judgment and start to moan about it.
Personally I believe it probably will have something like LAN, you just need to log on first to verify that you have a legit copy. Seems like a logical thing for Blizzard to do atleast IMO.
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There will be LAN on Battle.net.
The only people this affects is those without an internet connection.
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konadora
Singapore66172 Posts
But LAN makes playing at lan shops fun
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On June 29 2009 18:51 konadora wrote: But LAN makes playing at lan shops fun LAN shops don't have an internet connection?
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On June 29 2009 18:42 Klockan3 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 29 2009 18:35 Eury wrote: I feel bad for those that have less than stellar internet access though. Why? They can still play as if it was a Lan. As long as all of them logs into B-net the host is still the one everyone connects to in the game so the game would play just as if it were a Lan as long as you can set the latency to whatever you want. The difference is of course that piracy gets harder which is good.
I meant people that are still using dial-up, or for some reason sitting behind a firewall that can't access Bnet (even though you can bypass that if you know what you are doing).
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motbob
United States12546 Posts
As someone who has played 90% of his BW games on LAN, this is terrible news for me.
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This is a shockingly pointless-seeming decision
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Now how will I play sc2 at school with mates!??!?!
But in all seriousness, Blizzard isn't retarded, they are probably implementing a feature that is similar to steam, i.e. you connect first and then you can go into LAN. I am in no way a Blizzard fan boy (sc only game), but I have complete faith in them pulling through with a successful system (hmm, may be becoming a Blizz fanboy D: ).
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Not good for people living in developing countries where ISP monopolize and give inconsistent lousy connections
and avoiding the lags/latency issues are the sole purpose of me going to LAN shops : (
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On June 29 2009 19:08 chongu wrote: Not good for people living in developing countries where ISP monopolize and give inconsistent lousy connections
and avoiding the lags/latency issues are the sole purpose of me going to LAN shops : ( If the LAN shop has an internet connection, you will still be able to play on LAN. You will just need to connect to Bnet first.
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This obviously means Bnet 2.0 will be fucking awesome. Just wait and see!
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On June 29 2009 19:08 Suc wrote: Now how will I play sc2 at school with mates!??!?!
But in all seriousness, Blizzard isn't retarded, they are probably implementing a feature that is similar to steam, i.e. you connect first and then you can go into LAN. I am in no way a Blizzard fan boy (sc only game), but I have complete faith in them pulling through with a successful system (hmm, may be becoming a Blizz fanboy D: ).
gl playing sc2 on school computers
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I'm good for the LAN latency when you connect to b.net, but I see a problem when you have a private lan party, people bring their PC's over so your there with some friend, and guess what, you can't get the Internet work for everybody, or your ISP fails thats night. Now what?
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