Unbounded Dickery

[darkschneider]

So apparently, Blizzard is dropping LAN multiplayer from Starcraft II.

… what??! You actually need to be connected to the Battle.Net Internet service to pwn your loser friends even if all of you are in someone's basement together??!

That's unbounded dickery!

Comments

[rspeed]

Wuh? WHAT?

[lilinthra]

Yeah, I heard that earlier this week. While I think it is a dumb move on Blizzard's part, I also expect the amount of time for someone to write a patch or battle.net spoofer to support LAN will be rather short.

[thatcalliecat]

I think that's'them being realistic and realizing how rarely you're in the same room as other people

[rspeed]

I probably played the original Starcraft on LANs twice as much as I did on Battle.net. But perhaps things are different now.

[speakerender]

Not to mention the splitting of the game into 3 different ones! Although I'll reserve judgement on that until they roll out the cost of each.

[phunkie]

Well, where in today's America do people pop up a LAN that doesn't also have a high speed connection that'll support a bunch of people? LAN parties came about because people wanted to play in the same room but also because people had dial up, right?

[jabbahj]

This puts a big dent in what was the mass piracy that was Starcraft.