| Ail said: Have to agree with bbsin here, half the people that said no lan= no buy added they would pirate the game... |
Me too. definately a boycott. Being a real StarCraft fan, I realize that SC was easily worth 10x what I paid for it. Over the course of years, I bought other games, played them out, and went back to StarCraft. If I had gotten 25% of the enjoyment I did with it, it was probably still worth the price 10x over. And now, SC2 looks to be an amazing games missing one feature that most people don't use, and used relatively little for those that DO use it, (face it, even most people who enjoy LAN parties will, nowadays, still play most of their games online) and that makes people not buy it. They'll torrent the game for the smallest of reasons, and then still get hundreds of hours of play out of it, and yet feel justified for not playing? Good thing most people don't feel that way. I don't like the graphical limitations of the Wii, I'll steal one. I don't like the lack of split-screen in KillZone 2, I'll steal a copy.
When people know a product IS worth it's value, and convince themselves it isn't (lets face it, there's a lot of games not worth buying due to missing features - SC2 won't be one of them), they aren't fooling anyone. They'll pirate the game, they won't get the same easy game experience the rest of us will have and it'll be their own fault. And for what? $50?
