Here are the pieces I pulled out of thier summery:
... according to senior vice president of game design, Pardo,.... has also revealed that the development team "don't have any plans to support LAN" (Local Area Networking), and clarified saying "we will not support it." This is an interesting statement, since the easy LAN functionality of the original game is one of the reasons it became so big in the first place. Current communities like iCCup, using StarCraft mods to host games are considered "pirate servers" by Blizzard, and Pardo wants to see those services shut down.
Sad sad day, and here I was hoping for a date for the beta
On June 29 2009 16:18 Zzoram wrote: I can't believe Blizzard embargoed slightly more detailed information about features we already knew about. Instead of getting a Beta date, we find out they removed LAN. This was so not even close to being worth the anticipation. This whole event just makes me a bit less excited, and very disappointed.
Keep in mind that these are also the tidbits that *those* sites chose to pull out and report on. I say we wait and see what TL has to say and report before we go getting upset about it.
Well, they did hold private interviews with different sites. I guess they were the ones who asked that question, although it still sounds strange.. maybe they meant LAN latency?
On June 29 2009 16:18 Zzoram wrote: I can't believe Blizzard embargoed slightly more detailed information about features we already knew about. Instead of getting a Beta date, we find out they removed LAN. This was so not even close to being worth the anticipation. This whole event just makes me a bit less excited, and very disappointed.
Keep in mind that these are also the tidbits that *those* sites chose to pull out and report on. I say we wait and see what TL has to say and report before we go getting upset about it.
I doubt even pathetic sites would choose to only report on old news.
this is rather disappointing...All the huss and "NDA" and the big secrecy just to find out a few details about replay rewind and observer analisis ...LOL I cant describe how much im disappointed!!! Fuck this is taking tooooo long already
Deep inside I was hoping that they are holding back the info about beta and they will anounce it later today,guess I was wrong and we have to wait like 6 months to actually see the game itslef.
"Well, it is important to note that while I personally witnessed these functions in the very newest build of Starcraft 2 at the Blizzard press conference last week, this is not the final product, nor even the beta, so things are subject to change. I highly doubt that any of these features will be taken out, but we’ll have to see"
they still havent sent out the beta keys to the people who qualified top 20 on the regional invitational ladders for wc3. I know me and a few other pros have not recieved it i did however receive an email awhile back from the blizzard e-sports team that the keys will be provided as beta approaches. id like to think we would get them atleast a weeks notice. but we will see
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