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

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theshrike said:
In my case, there is plenty of time when I am without reliable internet (when I am visiting parents, when I am traveling)

Aside from all that, by giving up LAN, I am now forced to trust someone else's system that I have no way to fix myself if there are issues.
I understand you have faith that battlenet will never have any issues at all. Personally I am skeptical, and I now will wait and observe rather than try to get it immediately.
Too me its just adding another step that doesn't need to be added with more things that could potentially go wrong.

And you have a LAN and friends moving with you when you go visit your parents or travel ?

So I don't see how the lack of LAN support changes the situation...