That would kick ass going on battle.net to watch progamer vods! Maybe you get low-quality vods for free and high quality for like a monthly fee? I would hate to have to pay for each individual movie.

UmmTheHobo

United States650 Posts

January 13 2009 01:30 GMT

#24

By the way a crack to be able to play lan will come out approximately *calculates... 3.672 seconds after Sc2 comes out.

LTT

Shakuras1095 Posts

January 13 2009 01:37 GMT

#25

Aren't they going to have to include some sort of lan for esports purposes? I can't see any of the korean leagues agreeing to add in random lag spikes and disconnects to televised games...

BanZu

United States3329 Posts

January 13 2009 02:27 GMT

#26

On January 13 2009 10:37 LTT wrote:
Aren't they going to have to include some sort of lan for esports purposes? I can't see any of the korean leagues agreeing to add in random lag spikes and disconnects to televised games...

Yea, that would suck major arse.

I don't see why it's so necessary for LAN to be removed. They are seriously changing things too much

hazz

United Kingdom570 Posts

January 13 2009 02:28 GMT

#27

if battle.net has lan latency iccup style then I don't think anyone would even bother with LAN - the only issue is offline tournaments/LAN parties

Bosu

United States3247 Posts

January 13 2009 02:36 GMT

#28

Offline tournaments / lan parties to me are a huge deal. I can't imagine them not having an option for lan.

ven

Germany332 Posts

January 13 2009 02:49 GMT

#29

WoW doesn't have LAN support either and every big LAN party has a WoW tournament nowadays, so that should not really be a problem.
Nonetheless not having LAN support would still screw over a lot of the people doing smaller LAN parties without proper internet access if BNet2.0 really doesn't include any kind of offline mode.

I'd imagine if Battle.net is ever going to go down Blizzard would release a patch for offline support like Valve promised for Steam if it was ever going to shut down. Also I guess that day will be far far away and we'll have few 3rd party BNet2.0 servers by then.

GTR

51706 Posts

January 13 2009 03:14 GMT

#30

maybe because WoW is a MMORPG

ToSs.Bag

United States201 Posts

January 13 2009 03:25 GMT

#31

On January 13 2009 10:06 Manifesto7 wrote:
Unless you have a source for the no-LAN support, don't post. I have a hard time believing Blizzard would not allow their games to be played offline.

World of Warcraft.... lol

then again, it would seem like something would be lacking to have an rts without a lan feature.... hmmmmm

theqat

United States2856 Posts

January 13 2009 03:43 GMT

#32

Excluding LAN is definitely the trend in modern multiplayer games--especially console->PC ports. SC2 doesn't have the plague of being console->PC, but it's still vulnerable to that trend. However, it seems impossible that they wouldn't include LAN considering they can't do netcode worth a damn and all Korean pro games are played over LAN.

GogoKodo

Canada1785 Posts

January 13 2009 03:44 GMT

#33

On January 13 2009 12:14 GTR-2-Go wrote:
maybe because WoW is a MMORPG

It has nothing to do with it being an MMORPG. There are arena tournaments, which until now I never thought about them taking place on the Blizzard servers but I guess they do. Lag does matter in arena matches, so would random disconnects.

spitball

Australia81 Posts

January 13 2009 04:22 GMT

#34

On January 13 2009 12:44 xgc-Infinite wrote:

Show nested quote +

I think the difference is WoW was most likely not designed with esports in mind.

SaharaDrac

United States76 Posts

January 13 2009 05:11 GMT

#35

no LAN is a bad idea when viewing multiplayer PC games the way we do NOW. But if Bnet2 is completely dependable and provides all the great services we're speculating on and low latency, then LAN will be outdated, and no longer needed. Try to stay open minded and think of the evolution of esports and pc gaming, not clinging to old standards.

mrgerry

United States1508 Posts

January 13 2009 05:39 GMT

#36

I don't think top players would want every one of their games to be able to be viewed in that manner. At least considering how protective progaming teams in Korea are of their replays.

rredtooth

5464 Posts

January 13 2009 05:50 GMT

#37

Next they'll remove single player custom games and expect you to either play Bnet or Campaign.
Blizzard is making one stupid mistake after another.

ggfobster

United States298 Posts

January 13 2009 06:57 GMT

#38

I won't buy SC2 if it doesn't have LAN support.

aeronexus

United States392 Posts

January 13 2009 07:06 GMT

#39

On January 13 2009 15:57 ggfobster wrote:
I won't buy SC2 if it doesn't have LAN support.

seriously.

my first reaction to this: "what the FUCK?!?!? NO LAN PARTIES????"

I mean I suppose you could get a router with a whole bunch of ports on it or a wireless one (yeah right) but there'd kinda be major issues with lag...

this would be a shitty decision in my opinion. it would be pretty much impossible to have a few friends over to play SC.