Starcraft 2 LAN Hacked - Page 17

On July 22 2012 17:48 DeCoder wrote:
Blizzard has transformed from a small game studio to a huge corporation. As such they now feel that they are in a position to provide their customers with an inferior product. Remember, they used to permit free instances of Starcraft to be installed on multiple computers for LAN play. They have grown arrogant and this will start eating into their loyal fanbase sooner or later. Given time, it will undermine their foundations as a successfull company. It's a textbook way of how a company life cycle works.

On July 22 2012 17:48 DeCoder wrote:
Blizzard has transformed from a small game studio to a huge corporation. As such they now feel that they are in a position to provide their customers with an inferior product. Remember, they used to permit free instances of Starcraft to be installed on multiple computers for LAN play. They have grown arrogant and this will start eating into their loyal fanbase sooner or later. Given time, it will undermine their foundations as a successfull company. It's a textbook way of how a company life cycle works.

On July 22 2012 18:20 Adreme wrote:


Yes that was also before piracy was sooooooo easy to do. Piracy has always been around to an extent but it is almost crazy how bad it is now so somehting had to be done and I see this as probably the next step gaming will take. You will probaly eventually be unable to play games offline and the only thing really stopping it now is that good internet connections arent as prevelent as they will be in say 5-10 years.

On July 22 2012 18:37 TaShadan wrote:


thats not true when scbw was released piracy was much easier, alot of my friends had pirated wc2 and scbw games but after we played it a lot and loved it all bought it
hardly a game had copy protection and if it had copy protection it was as easy as today to copy it
blizzard changed to activision blizzard thats why they got greedy

It doesn't promote piracy.

On July 22 2012 19:24 Tom Cruise wrote:
whoa, whoa buddy, this thread is promoting illegal software and piracy (I think?)

lolwtf, mods, wake up.

On July 22 2012 17:36 ysnake wrote:
You cannot use "no LAN to prevent piracy" as there are tons of Starcraft II cracked versions out, you can find it on any torrent website, and many games achieved glory simply because they could be hacked, and went into a pro-scene (Call of Duty 2, Call of Duty 4, Starcraft, Warcraft 3, Quake, Unreal Tournament, Counter-Strike to mention some).

But long gone are the days when you needed to get every player you can and now they can just focus on making money (isn't that the sole reason they are doing this?), so it stands from that point. However, I don't see a problem with having LAN in Starcraft II, playing single player against AI and multiplayer almost feels like two different games with the response time and everything.

Never forget the Warcraft 3 response time...

On July 25 2012 16:39 17Sphynx17 wrote:
I don't know. At this point with sc2 being out for 2 years and how many "seasons" already. Having LAN doesn't even seem to matter much to the majority. It is either you play it or you don't at this point.

On July 22 2012 21:02 MVega wrote:
Shifty people have been working on trying to get that working without bnet since beta and there is still no reliable way to get it done, and the community for it is extremely small anyway. Always On Bnet / No LAN does prevent piracy of the most important part of the game. If there was a LAN mode it would be very easy for people to set up a third-party bnet substitute and release tools to allow others to do the same. In that case Blizzard suing wouldn't accomplish anything because the tools would be out there and widely distributed.

On August 22 2011 07:07 LetoAtreides82 wrote:
Only big tournaments sanctioned by Blizzard (such as GSL, MLG, NASL, IEM, Dreamhack, etc) should have lan. Unfortunately figuring out a way so that only these tournaments can use lan is difficult.