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Welcome !
Now that a post exists since lot of day and nobody of Blizzard stops the subject (here : http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/2973007615?page=1 ), I think that we can discuss
here about the apparition of this hack without a violation of the TOS... I don't see why
we can speak about the hack on the official forum moderated by Blizzard salaried
employee and can't here...
This hack was developed since a lots of time and support 1.3.6 clients (enGB,enUS, ... )
by a team named StarFriend. I see that you can use the legal Starcraft 2 and this hack
on the same Starcraft 2 without any problem...
Personnally, I think that LAN is the heart and soul of StarCraft. It wasn't Battle.net
that made SC1 popular, it was LAN.
Here http://www.petitiononline.com/LANSC2/petition.html you can see 250k people who have
sign for the LAN of SC2.
More of that, the team of developers of SF(StarFriend) states that if Blizzard release
an official LAN, the team will stop their project.
And I don't support guys who say that LAN is dead... If you don't use LAN, cool bro but
you are stupid. An extra LAN button is going to confuse you when you log in to play?
Serutan
Some point of view from DeeBo & ROFL
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Errr...... why the double spacing?
EDIT: nvm it was fixed
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On August 15 2011 01:38 synapse wrote:
Errr...... why the double spacing?
EDIT: nvm it was fixed
Phew, thank fk for that!
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I fixed... Problem between notepad++ and teamliquid ...^^
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So basically this is supposed to be a discussion of whether or not people should start using this "LAN hack" you speak of now that it's out?
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Seriously? I wasn't even aware.
At least now Blizzard has no excuse for not having LAN. Not that their excuse was valid in the first place.
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Hope someone D/C's during Blizzcon Tourny/GSL game at Blizzcon.. Would really stick it to the man.
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Anyone care to enlighten me on blizzard's stance on no LAN for sc2 beside piracy? I haven't been keeping up with all the news looked into deeply with blizzard's history but hasn't recently Diablo 3 will support cash auction system where they stated in the video interview that "it gonna happen anyway might as well us do it" (not direct quote but somewhere along that line). I'm all at loss with blizzard's philosophy approach right now. Was it all just bs just to maximize profits?
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For me personaly lan is nothing i miss. I mean me and my 3 friends who play SC2 do not often play against each other cause it got kind of boring after some weeks, and so I want to play ladder... I see the need for Lan for the tournaments, but for the normal player... not.
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It's very tedious to use, and not very recommended for tournament use IMO. There have been less lag spikes and DC... And when using this LAN you have to accept your username will be "Slayer" and also it's important to understand they don't have an English version yet.
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On August 15 2011 01:45 NuKedUFirst wrote:
Hope someone D/C's during Blizzcon Tourny/GSL game at Blizzcon.. Would really stick it to the man.
i believe this already happened in blizzcon last year 
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On August 15 2011 01:49 ImsorryKarelyn wrote:
Anyone care to enlighten me on blizzard's stance on no LAN for sc2 beside piracy? I haven't been keeping up with all the news looked into deeply with blizzard's history but hasn't recently Diablo 3 will support cash auction system where they stated in the video interview that "it gonna happen anyway might as well us do it" (not direct quote but somewhere along that line). I'm all at loss with blizzard's philosophy approach right now. Was it all just bs just to maximize profits?
Their reasons are piracy and making battle.net 2.0 the best multiplayer platform, which is funny considering how fucking terrible it is. It's speculated that maximising profits is one of the main reasons too. Sadsadsad I still can't believe this game doesn't have LAN.
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On August 15 2011 01:49 ImsorryKarelyn wrote:
Anyone care to enlighten me on blizzard's stance on no LAN for sc2 beside piracy? I haven't been keeping up with all the news looked into deeply with blizzard's history but hasn't recently Diablo 3 will support cash auction system where they stated in the video interview that "it gonna happen anyway might as well us do it" (not direct quote but somewhere along that line). I'm all at loss with blizzard's philosophy approach right now. Was it all just bs just to maximize profits?
Nobody can take Starcraft away from Blizzard because every game is played through their servers and they can make sure everybody plays the latest version etc.
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Personally, having LAN wouldn't affect my play very much. I play with friends over B.Net and am usually pretty satisfied. From an e-sport standpoint however, not having LAN is borderline ridiculous. In addition to the potential for lag, there is always the possibility that the internet at the venue could experience issues <cough> MLG Dallas <cough>.
Thankfully, there were no such internet issues in Columbus or Anaheim. However, until there is at least a LAN option for these massive Blizzard sanctioned events; there is always the threat of a very important and exciting moment in SC2 to be tainted by a very solvable problem. If you want e-sports to truly be successful, you have to provide the viewer with the best possible experience. I can tell you from personal experience that watching them fill time on the stream while they try to work out internet issues is not entertaining. Even if Blizzard doesn't implement it for the common player, at least make LAN available for these huge tournaments that they support.
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This is a really good news, hope this spreads out and people start using it.
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On August 15 2011 01:50 FiWiFaKi wrote:
It's very tedious to use, and not very recommended for tournament use IMO. There have been less lag spikes and DC... And when using this LAN you have to accept your username will be "Slayer" and also it's important to understand they don't have an English version yet.
The next release is really soon... So for info, the next release ( 1 week, maybe 2) will support patch, username and english version
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they're not going to release LAN, doing so would mean they basically stop making money from SC2 which has only been out for a year
the only way i can see them releasing LAN is after several more years, as incentive to keep playing (make it free basically)
Also, what is blizzard's stance on this lan project? why isn't it taken down yet?
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forgive my lack of technical understanding, but isn't this not lan but merely a private server?
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On August 15 2011 01:51 youngminii wrote:Show nested quote +On August 15 2011 01:49 ImsorryKarelyn wrote:
Anyone care to enlighten me on blizzard's stance on no LAN for sc2 beside piracy? I haven't been keeping up with all the news looked into deeply with blizzard's history but hasn't recently Diablo 3 will support cash auction system where they stated in the video interview that "it gonna happen anyway might as well us do it" (not direct quote but somewhere along that line). I'm all at loss with blizzard's philosophy approach right now. Was it all just bs just to maximize profits? Their reasons are piracy and making battle.net 2.0 the best multiplayer platform, which is funny considering how fucking terrible it is. It's speculated that maximising profits is one of the main reasons too. Sadsadsad I still can't believe this game doesn't have LAN.
Are you serious? Have you played Warcraft 3? The lag on Battle.net was almost one second for even the best connections in Europe. So yes they have greatly improved the latency for bnet 2.0, and it's nowhere near as horrible as you make it to sound. And yes they don't want LAN because they don't want piracy ofc. Saw that comming since WoW came out to be honest.
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