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Earlier yesterday Khaldor mentioned on-stream that Blizzard had been using a special type of client for this weekend's Blizzard World Championships, instead of your standard online Battle.net connection. We interviewed Dustin Browder on this, and he revealed that they are using a new, specialized local Battle.net server, much like their WoW tournament realms. It seems this is a testing ground, with possible potential to be used at other events, though no word was given on that. He is also quick to say that this is "Not LAN".
Question starts at 13:03
"We've got a local Battle.net server here that's isolated. Everything is running through here. That reduces a large amount of uncertainty for us in terms of an eSports event like this. We don't have to deal with other outside variables that are outside our control. This is something we're testing, seeing how difficult it is for us to do, how effective it is, does it work, to see if it would be something to benefit us at eSports events. It's very similar to what we do with World of Warcraft, it's a tournament realm here on site."
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this would be great if they make it available for more tournaments  /obvious
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They think their arcade system is great.
This point alone shows, what you can expect from this guys...
Even IF they bring low lag servers for events. no one can train under this conditions what makes is kind of pointless.
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On November 18 2012 21:48 skeldark wrote:
They think their arcade system is great.
This point alone shows, what you can expect from this guys...
Even IF they bring low lag servers for events. no one can train under this conditions what makes is kind of pointless.
everyone can train under these conditions.. isolated servers are just servers with low risk of disconnects and lag, which is like playing at home for most people.
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Hey it only took them 2 years to get something that every decently sized wol tournament ever should have had.
20 bucks we'll only see it at their own events...
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His ear looks very strange.
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Just put LAN out officially so ALL offline tournaments and ALL teams can gain the benefits, as will all fans of SC2 as an esport.
There are already unofficial SC2 servers. There is already a pirate LAN crack. Protecting against piracy is no longer a valid excuse (never was).
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On November 18 2012 22:06 Elwar wrote:
Just put LAN out officially so ALL offline tournaments and ALL teams can gain the benefits, as will all fans of SC2 as an esport.
There are already unofficial SC2 servers. There is already a pirate LAN crack. Protecting against piracy is no longer a valid excuse (never was).
Yes becaue they couldnt just figure out a new way to try to block those LAN cracks again in 4 months. Just because you failed at your goal doesnt mean you should just give up and never try again.
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I If it's similar to WoW Tournaments Realm, they wont give these to tournaments, or only to a very few of them.
These things cost a SHIT TON, and Blizzard don't really want them to go in the wild. :<
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So it's basically a glorified server they bought round with them :S
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On November 18 2012 22:06 Elwar wrote:
Just put LAN out officially so ALL offline tournaments and ALL teams can gain the benefits, as will all fans of SC2 as an esport.
There are already unofficial SC2 servers. There is already a pirate LAN crack. Protecting against piracy is no longer a valid excuse (never was).
I beg to differ. The amount of work you have to go through to play a pirated version of SC2 on LAN vs SC1 on LAN is hugely different. The easier it is to pirate a game, the more people that will in turn pirate it.
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Yes so they can pretend not to have LAN mode while having LAN mode because yes, it's actually kind of important for tournaments.
Seeing his face makes me angry.
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Genius! They are so smart! They did a technological breaekthrough
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On November 18 2012 21:56 EU.Pink wrote:Show nested quote +On November 18 2012 21:48 skeldark wrote:
They think their arcade system is great.
This point alone shows, what you can expect from this guys...
Even IF they bring low lag servers for events. no one can train under this conditions what makes is kind of pointless.
everyone can train under these conditions.. isolated servers are just servers with low risk of disconnects and lag, which is like playing at home for most people.
and yet they still had people get dropped and DC... Rain vs Idra i think, the observer dropped lol....
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On November 19 2012 01:22 KiF1rE wrote:Show nested quote +On November 18 2012 21:56 EU.Pink wrote:On November 18 2012 21:48 skeldark wrote:
They think their arcade system is great.
This point alone shows, what you can expect from this guys...
Even IF they bring low lag servers for events. no one can train under this conditions what makes is kind of pointless.
everyone can train under these conditions.. isolated servers are just servers with low risk of disconnects and lag, which is like playing at home for most people. and yet they still had people get dropped and DC... Rain vs Idra i think, the observer dropped lol....
He crashed. Not the same. That was only the only incident.
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On November 18 2012 22:03 Arnstein wrote:
His ear looks very strange.
you must be high...
funny that even with this we still had an observer get DCed O.o
Edit just saw your post I guess he crashed, what does that even mean they had a computer that crashed as an observer, thats either bad planning or horrible luck.
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On November 19 2012 01:35 MrF wrote:you must be high... funny that even with this we still had an observer get DCed O.o Edit just saw your post I guess he crashed, what does that even mean they had a computer that crashed as an observer, thats either bad planning or horrible luck.
He crashed. Not the same. That was only the only incident.
User was warned for this post
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On November 18 2012 21:56 EU.Pink wrote:Show nested quote +On November 18 2012 21:48 skeldark wrote:
They think their arcade system is great.
This point alone shows, what you can expect from this guys...
Even IF they bring low lag servers for events. no one can train under this conditions what makes is kind of pointless.
everyone can train under these conditions.. isolated servers are just servers with low risk of disconnects and lag, which is like playing at home for most people.
the servers aren't available outside events, so players still have to practise via b.net
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Lol, Blizzard finally provides a service that everyone's been wanting for the past 2 years...
aaaand people complain about LAN.
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I could swear I heard somewhere that they would implement viewing replays with other people? Something tells me that´s not happening.
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