We won't need LAN really after these features plus the "players near you" feature they plan on releasing in 1.5 come out. It's pretty much all you can do other than LAN really, and I really don't mind it due to the fact that I would not have any usage for pure LAN anyway as not many of my friends play/are any good.

Zharak

Sweden106 Posts

May 07 2012 16:11 GMT

#62

Really nice!
Go Blizzard:D

NovemberstOrm

Canada16217 Posts

May 07 2012 16:11 GMT

#63

HOLY MOLY blizzard is finally doing it, LOL..... all the stuff we've asked for :D

Norzma

Sweden160 Posts

May 07 2012 16:12 GMT

#64

Unbelievable, I really hoped blizzard would atleast deliver on some off these points, but seeing this is really awesome.

JieXian

Malaysia4677 Posts

May 07 2012 16:12 GMT

#65

On May 08 2012 01:07 KingRajesh wrote:
Awesome.

Maybe this will stop people from complaining about Blizzard and lack of LAN.

....... what? If Blizzard were less like Apple (and another thing I don't want to name) wanting to control everything the community would already have implemented all those features.

Still, yes, I'm happy to see this step forward.

Mikelius

Germany517 Posts

May 07 2012 16:12 GMT

#66

This all sounds amazing, I just hope they release all of this at launch.

speknek

758 Posts

May 07 2012 16:12 GMT

#67

On May 08 2012 01:07 Andreas wrote:
Guess that seals the deal on buying HotS. But what will they do for LotV now that they've crossed off every community request imaginable?

haha, you think a gaming community will ever be happy? Sure this is awesome, but give it a few months and you'll have a new list of big requests.

Qntc.YuMe

United States792 Posts

May 07 2012 16:12 GMT

#68

unrank matchmaking is gonna be so good. But it worries me if ranked match making becomes empty because of that

Integra

Sweden5626 Posts

May 07 2012 16:13 GMT

#69

And like so many people pointed out, these "features" already existed in Battle.Net 1.0 with the exception of
Multiplayer resume from replay and Unranked matchmaking. Better late than never I guess...

furo

Germany449 Posts

May 07 2012 16:13 GMT

#70

its hard to believe that they could not implement that stuff as SC2 got out.

but better late than never.

Merikh

United States918 Posts

May 07 2012 16:13 GMT

#71

HUGE

dD3s

Germany130 Posts

May 07 2012 16:13 GMT

#72

Omg, those changes are so sick! Can't wait... Blizzard <3

Tsubbi

Germany7996 Posts

May 07 2012 16:14 GMT

#73

wow this is almost every feature you could ask for, cannot waiitttttttttt

GoodRiot

United States75 Posts

May 07 2012 16:14 GMT

#74

Success!

- Dragon

kruxey

Bulgaria168 Posts

May 07 2012 16:14 GMT

#75

Hell it's about time! Amazing news.

Negius

Netherlands290 Posts

May 07 2012 16:14 GMT

#76

These changes are more than I could hope for. Hyper-pumped!

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

May 07 2012 16:15 GMT

#77

Thank god. Might just save SC2

krakish

United States1 Post

May 07 2012 16:15 GMT

#78

We're literally getting everything except LAN. Oh well. This is some goddamn good shit regardless. I just wish pros were provided some low-latency way of playing, especially in a game where missing a forcefield can lose you the game.

palanq

United States761 Posts

May 07 2012 16:15 GMT

#79

On May 08 2012 01:09 SiegeFlank wrote:
"Hell, it's about time."