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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:13 Liquid`NonY wrote: You are right no one has asked Blizzard for LAN yet. Someone get on that! Kennigit had the chance, but he fucked it up, should have pushed harder! lol | ||
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Wroshe
Netherlands1051 Posts
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Frolossus
United States4779 Posts
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HooK2000
Germany139 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:15 setzer wrote: Blizzard just doesn't have the technology to make it possible. Your post is like "Santa doesnt have the technology to deliver presents on Christmas." ... | ||
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Ettick
United States2434 Posts
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Mutaahh
Netherlands859 Posts
LAN won't happen for SC2 (maybe tournament versions...) | ||
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TUski
United States1258 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:21 HooK2000 wrote: Your post is like "Santa doesnt have the technology to deliver presents on Christmas." ... Well, he was paraphrasing a statement by blizzard from 2+ years ago.. | ||
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HiTeK532
Canada171 Posts
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?? WTF piracy is not the biggest reason and I doubt it is a reason at all. Control is the reason SC2 doesn't have lan. If it did have lan tournaments would have no incentive to pay blizzard for the use of their game. As it stands if a tournament is unsanctioned by blizzard, blizzard has the ability to stop players from accessing bnet and therefore stopping the tournament. So in order for GOM/KESPA/MLG to run SC2 tournaments they have to pay blizzard and if payments ever stop while then blizzard can pull the plug on the tournament. As for all the people who say sell tournament editions with LAN that doesn't solve the problem because after and organization gets lan then blizzard has no control again. | ||
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shizaep
Canada2920 Posts
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. Yeah, this is pretty much it. If SC2 got LAN, Blizzard would lose too much money from people who pirate it and play LAN, or use programs that emulate a LAN environment, such as Garena, to play on private servers. | ||
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Zato-1
Chile4253 Posts
That? That's inexcusable. SC2 has had some hiccups, but overall the lack of LAN hasn't been catastrophic for tournament and league experience. | ||
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kju
6143 Posts
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FuzzyJAM
Scotland9300 Posts
Blizzard should just give us LAN. Of course they won't because, as consumers, we have no bargaining chips besides a boycott and the only people who would care enough about LAN to boycott their product also care about their product too much to boycott it. It's sad, but you can understand their reasoning. | ||
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mrtomjones
Canada4020 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:22 HiTeK532 wrote: WTF piracy is not the biggest reason and I doubt it is a reason at all. Control is the reason SC2 doesn't have lan. If it did have lan tournaments would have no incentive to pay blizzard for the use of their game. As it stands if a tournament is unsanctioned by blizzard, blizzard has the ability to stop players from accessing bnet and therefore stopping the tournament. So in order for GOM/KESPA/MLG to run SC2 tournaments they have to pay blizzard and if payments ever stop while then blizzard can pull the plug on the tournament. As for all the people who say sell tournament editions with LAN that doesn't solve the problem because after and organization gets lan then blizzard has no control again. You should look at Kespa in BW again. | ||
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Finnz
United Kingdom260 Posts
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turdburgler
England6749 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:24 shizaep wrote: Yeah, this is pretty much it. If SC2 got LAN, Blizzard would lose too much money from people who pirate it and play LAN, or use programs that emulate a LAN environment, such as Garena, to play on private servers. you can already emulate bnet, that was discovered like 18 months ago by chinese hackers. the only people losing out are the paying fans who arent even begging for lan for themselves. they just want major leagues to get a lan client. and this is what lol is getting, a tourney client. there is no reasonable reason blizzard hasnt done this, except the same reason blizzard leaves everything out of their games, because they can sell it as a feature in an expansion. so ill repeat what i said last time. feature of legacy of the void. | ||
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AngryMag
Germany1040 Posts
I guess we have to wait some more years, atleast until LotV | ||
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TotalBiscuit
United Kingdom5437 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:11 mrtomjones wrote: Man.. you need to think before you complain. Free to play vs pay to play. Blizzard does not want people to play their game for free and unfortunately this is one effective way to stop it. They are putting in new functions for tournaments as it is but I very much doubt you will ever see Lan for SC2. Counter-argument. Riot is not a charity, they rely on their unlock system to make money. As with all F2P games, this involves accounts being stored on the server to ensure that people do not get free shit. A LAN client opens up the door to hacking the game and allowing all champs and skins to be unlocked. This is equivalent to SC2 "piracy" that would result from LAN. Let's just ignore the fact that wringing your hands over piracy for a game that's 2 years old is just idiotic. Second point, this is not the real reason that SC2 doesn't have LAN, it's due to KESPAs previous bullshit. The use of a LAN client for tournaments would have to be authorized and monitored. If KESPA got ahold of it there's the potential to open pandora's box and cut off Blizzards influence in Korea once again, though you would think Blizzard has put MORE than enough legal protections in place to prevent that from happening now. One way or the other Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves. A F2P entirely online game is about to beat them in the "technology" race and clearly demonstrating that they care about the player experience and tournament legitimacy. | ||
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MisterTea
United Kingdom1047 Posts
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NonY
8751 Posts
On October 13 2012 08:17 zhurai wrote: (it was Sarcasm if you couldn't tell -_-) not like complaining at either place would do anything at this point. Doesn't matter. | ||
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Wrathsc2
United States2025 Posts
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