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On June 14 2010 14:22 waffling1 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 14 2010 13:59 JustAnotherKnave wrote:
i think that at some point Blizzard should implement a viewer into b.net so that you can watch the OSL finals live. perhaps even a list of announcers that you can choose from to listen to as well freaken genius. integrate esports and viewing it, and following it into the game itself, rather than useless shit like facebook. they want to take over esports? well how about integrating it and making it accessible right when u log on? didn't think that one through did you, frank pierce/activision?
yes it is genius. but i hardly call this taking over esports, just Blizzard lording over SC2, and like duh - they should. moreover, i find it very very smart to maintain Korea as the capital of the esport; this is the honor Korea deserves for making BW the success it is/was. Korea will be for pro-SC2 what England and the Premier League is for soccer.
and to be honest, i'd rather have access to proSC2 matches through the game itself than what i currently have to do which is through some TL's livestream. At least with Blizzard i know that ads will actually be targeted at me instead of swill like "Hot in Cleveland". and i can't overstate my desire for english commentators LIVE
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I don't think people who pirate software assume they have a "right" to do so. People toss that word around like it means something way too often. Pirates just do what they want and rationalize it for public acceptance. It's the same with anyone who does something illegal/immoral, we just want what we want and don't care how we get it.
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what countries will have qualifiers?
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Great news about the OS2L, but we still need proper LAN functionallity. Part of the whole LAN feeling for me is to be disconnected, completely offline for once. Not supporting LAN is just stupid.
But i guess there will be some sort of fix or crack or "offline pirate server" for those of us who still goes to LAN partys without an internet connection.
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On June 15 2010 02:37 artanis2 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 14 2010 15:41 Half wrote:
God, I hope they found a way to prevent this from getting leaked and Pirated...
This is impossible. Skype Premium Edition. Or even WoW lol, private servers kind of suck. You can have pirated Starcraft 2 with everything broken and 300 ms. You kidding? SC2 doesn't do any processing on the server. It's basically 100% packet bounce with checksum. Where's that magic 300ms ping going to come from on my LAN?
I'm just wondering, are you just saying that or do you actually know anything about SC2 server structure.
I have utmost respect for Crackers and even distributors. I have zero for people who just want free stuff.
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Activision-Blizzard wrote:
On the occasion in Seoul at an OSL in the Korean Air hangar when we had the greatest reception of Starcraft 2's life and the TL.net community slayed me mercilessly for not giving them features that were commonplace in 1998, I, Bobby Kotick, said: ‘The take was terrific but the fans killed me. I cried all the way to the bank.
There is only one language that they understand now; money. Korean Air put up the cash to host a big event and Blizzard's eyes went wide with dollar signs and they were more than happy to give lan to them.
The only way they will give us lan is if we vote with our dollars. It's very simple, really. In fact, dont steal it either, because then you give them something to blame it on that isnt themselves.
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Seems like OGN deciding to go to the table with Gretech is paying off.
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LAN is such an important block of LAN party culture that I can't see how Blizzard wouldn't eventually add LAN support to their game. It could be soon, even before the first expansion or after a couple of years at the latest.
But of course Blizzard doesn't want us to think that there will be a LAN implemented soon since people would just start to wait for it to come and then "the evil pirates" would raise and pirate the game without paying a penny. That way, more people will be buying it as soon as the game is being released.
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uh didnt you guys already hear of the "SC2 Professional edition".. which will be sold only to Tournament organizers, which has LAN enabled.. Thats how this will work in Korea.
That way, they keep the piracy down because they will only have acouple hundred LAN serial keys available, but still get to have LAN's for the major events.
Still lame but it quells all the complaining in this thread so far.
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Since now, I can visualize the hordes of hackers uniting under one banner, to crack and enable the game for the masses. Such sight does soothe my rebellious heart.
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There is no way the "Professional" edition can support even a modest professional "scene" and not show up on torrent sites almost instantly. Right now this does't make a lot of sense.
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they better be getting ready to crack this thing so we all get lan during this down time
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yes special edition lan for tourney
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On June 15 2010 09:49 fantomex wrote:
There is no way the "Professional" edition can support even a modest professional "scene" and not show up on torrent sites almost instantly. Right now this does't make a lot of sense.
Yeh have fun copying all the directories to a disc while a blizzard employee is running the server.
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On June 15 2010 11:09 Baarn wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2010 09:49 fantomex wrote:
There is no way the "Professional" edition can support even a modest professional "scene" and not show up on torrent sites almost instantly. Right now this does't make a lot of sense. Yeh have fun copying all the directories to a disc while a blizzard employee is running the server.
Not to mention if they have CD keys (which they will) that there are only ~100 to 1000 CDkeys made, therefor if you get one banned, it can be traced down..
all blizzard games never make it on torrents other than singleplayer because of CDkeys anyways, I dont see how a LAN version would be any different, if not more secure due to such low number of keys given out.
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On June 14 2010 06:25 Lightswarm wrote:
wtf. massive catering to the asian servers. i mean, clan wars and tournaments like CSL (for the casual gamers) will most likely have to use bnet 2.0. I just dont see this "Professional Edition" spreading to the foreign community (at least not in the forseeable future).
PS: If they have lan functionality and gives it to the chinese (who hosted tournaments like stars war), wont the chinese just hack the shit out of it anyways? just saying blizzard, wtf
Yeah its pretty fucking stupid, give lan to everyone or dont put it in the fucking game.
pretty simple concept
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This means Blizzard justifying no-LAN by saying "the code isn't there, we didn't remove it" is BS. Let everyone play on LAN!
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Why are Blizzard staff at all tournaments? Oh yeah, because you have to pay them to have a tournament now. No more tournaments for fun, or giant LAN get-togethers.
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People in China, of which a majority only make 120$ a month, are going to have 2 options if LAN is installed in b.net:
1.Pay a large sum of money to get the game. Money that is in short supply.
2.Use blizzard made LAN to get the game free.
What do you think they will chose?
Is there a better way to get these people to buy SC2? What bliz server only services could they add? Ihmo, LAN parties are dying out and internet is getting better every year. There is no reason to go back in progress.
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Looks like I'll have to protest their money making policies by not buying the game until they added lan, chat channel and allow us to make room names and everything that made their other games great.
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