LoL to get LAN. Where's SC2s? - Page 11

On October 14 2012 10:50 FabledIntegral wrote:
It's not coming. They've made it clear. Browder even said at an interview at my school last year that LAN wasn't coming (the way he said it, he implied ever), it wasn't being considered, and that he would appreciate if no questions were asked about it.

On October 13 2012 08:10 Fionn wrote:
If SC2 was free-to-play, it would have LAN.

It's not, so it doesn't have it.

On October 15 2012 05:12 Kennigit wrote:
Of course piracy is a concern, but it's less of a concern when your game is a free to play game with microtransactions vs a 1 time purchase. If you "lose" the sale (yes this is debatable, whether the pirate would buy it in in the first place blah blah), you are guaranteed to lose 59.99 or w/e the sale price is. With a moba, only a certain percentage actually pay for upgrades, and the incentive isn't as strong to steal a free product.

As long as SC2 doesn't have some sort of microtransaction model to justify the business expense of investing significant amounts into progaming, Blizzard will always be 3rd behind Riot and Valve for support. It just doesn't make sense to do the kind of support when sc2 esports revenue is pretty much negligible.

On October 15 2012 05:33 Derrida wrote:


They don't have to release the sourcecode for LAN though, I'm pretty sure they could make a server just for major-premier events, and send 1 techguy to each event.

On October 15 2012 06:26 Xapti wrote:

That, plus the much more important fact which is that in SC2 vs LoL, SC2 already has a 3rd party LAN, so there's very little danger even if the LAN mode does leak outside of the tournament scene.

There is no 3rd party LAN for LoL as far as I know, so overall it might be more damaging to them in my opinion if their LAN mode got leaked.

That said, the chance of it leaking is low if the proper security precautions are taken.

On October 14 2012 10:49 Nausea wrote:
I think it has been pretty obvious in recent years that blizzard is mostly trying to break even
until they release their next cash cow "Titan".

Just pushing out mediocre stuff to keep them at a stable course and then cash in on their new mmo, and repeat.

There will never be a LAN mode in any Blizzard releases ever again.

On October 13 2012 08:10 mrRoflpwn wrote:
Why do people keep making threads about things that have bee discussed to death multiple times?? Is it really that hard to not understand that piracy is the biggest reason??