Starcraft 2 makes major announcements (and I am off the hype train)

[Ail]

theshrike said:
@Ail
your reasoning for not including LAN is basically: "I dont need, so why would anyone else possibly want it, get rid of it"

There are many other people who are affected. While it might hurt some pirates (probably not, they tend to be very adaptive) it also hurt paying customers who have enjoyed those features for over a decade.
the original starcraft was built on the back of lan with the spawn feature.

 

The original Starcraft is over 10 years old and back then internet connectivity was not reliable for most people, LAN was the only way to play a game with a decent ping, that is not the case today...

LAN doesn't offer any major feature that can't be provided by bnet too these days.( and playing on bnet is actually easier to set up than setting up a lan for most casual players).

 

The only exceptions would be playing from behind a firewall. And in most of the cases when you are behind a heavy duty firewall you are actually not supposed to be gaming...(might be fun to install SC2 on your universities lab PCs too but it's not legal and if your IT finds out about those he will quickly delete the installs).