Why isn't there LAN for SC2?

[Deleted]

Piracy.

That's all.

---------- Post added 2011-06-26 at 01:28 PM ----------

Because Blizzards only wants MONEY, MONEY AND MORE MONEY!

Yes, because companies should give products for free, right?

[Noomz]

Because Blizzards only wants MONEY, MONEY AND MORE MONEY!

Any no company living on profits wants to earn money.

[Deleted]

Because Blizzards only wants MONEY, MONEY AND MORE MONEY!

Instead of you pirating their games, am I right?

[Casio]

I guess it's for safety reasons. but with all the big offline tourneys running currently (mlg, dreamhack, gsl) I think that lan support would be great. maybe gsl doesnt need it as much, since they have an established venue, but with mlg moving from town to town with no standing connection at the venues, and the huge amount of ppl watching the streams, lan support would make it a whole lot easier for the people running those events.

SC2 is probably the biggest title in esports at the moment, with prize pools other games (except brood war) can only dream of.
to make it even bigger, blizzard should implement some simple things, such as LAN, and making it able to play on any server with 1 account, so that it is not as big of an investment if you wanna try your luck in an overseas online tourney, or simply play with oversea friends.

[Alraml]

There is, Dreamhack, Blizzard Invitational and Blizzcon.

iSeries in the UK
MLG and WCG (Could be wrong)

Thats a fair few LAN's the game is played at.

EDIT: OH nevermind i thought you meant actual LAN tournaments.

Hmm use Hamachi, or something like that and you can "LAN" it.

They're played on Bnet. There was a lot of controversy at MLG Dallas because battle.net went down during the tournament and was very laggy for a lot of it.

[Sterilize]

Understand why companies are trying to do this...

But I miss the days where I could actually play my video games in places without an internet connection.

[Alraml]

Understand why companies are trying to do this...

But I miss the days where I could actually play my video games in places without an internet connection.

Same here, but I also remember playing at a net cafe that cracked RA2 and installed it on 24 computers.

[Deleted]

Understand why companies are trying to do this...

But I miss the days where I could actually play my video games in places without an internet connection.

You can play singleplayer offline

[moaradin]

Because this is Activision Blizzard were talking about here.

[neoscorpio]

Three letters - DRM. Yes, that is their version of the cursed concept known as DRM.

[Deleted]

Three letters - DRM. Yes, that is their version of the cursed concept known as DRM.

Considering that you can play on guest mode without being online...

That's not DRM. It's obvious if you want to play online, you HAVE to be online.

The LAN decision was nothing more than piracy.

[seam]

i dont understand this as well. i often go to lan parties of my friends - however internet there is incredibly slow ... we were always playing per LAN. simply annoying. also the latency is in the range of 500-800 ms. not so problematic for RTSG, but a killer for FPS

Bnet latency is 125ms. Anything over it is your internet.

As for the question, Pirates.

Because this is Activision Blizzard were talking about here.

They are far from the only company doing this. To say so is fooling youself.

They're played on Bnet. There was a lot of controversy at MLG Dallas because battle.net went down during the tournament and was very laggy for a lot of it.

That was actually a venue issue, as the stream was having issues also.

[Wyrmrider]

Why you need LAN when you can invite your friends and play with them or against them?

This still leaves Battle.net + both player's internet connections as potential bottlenecks / points of failure, yes? That's not the kind of thing you should be _forcing_ in a game with the competitive potential of SC2.

You may not need LAN, and I may not need LAN, but Bomber and MaNa certainly do.
(http://blip.tv/day9tv/bomber-t-vs-ma...roup-h-5292428 - start from 16:40)

[Wilian]

It's about as much about piracy as it is the reselling of game. Just one way for corporations to limit the people to buy new products instead of third-hand from stores.

[critterkiller]

Dreamhack has a tournament for SC2 yes?

[Zyzzyx]

Pretty sure the biggest reason is control. Anti-piracy is just another measure of control. They'd make enough money off people buying it to begin with, this is just another middle finger to the people who did purchase it. Lan play should never be completely omitted.

[Mechazod]

You can play singleplayer offline

Wait you can play SC2s single player modes offline?

[denominator]

Wait you can play SC2s single player modes offline?

Ya, just log in as a guest.