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

[Final-Fan]

Mendicate Bias said:

Final-Fan said:

theprof00 said:

Mendicate Bias said:

theprof00 said:
no is fine.

for those people that were planning on installing it on more than one computer in your house, that is piracy, simple as that.

Although there will be no lan, there will be programs that will allow lan play.

Please explain to me how is that piracy? So am I not allowed to play my copy of Gow on my friends 360?

Were you purposely trying to give the worst metaphor you could think of?

Installing a game on multiple computers for the purpose of other people playing the game without paying, is piracy.

He probably didn't see the posts you were referring to. Taken out of whatever the original context is (I don't recall it either), "installing it on more than one computer in your house" sounds perfectly reasonable as long as only one person at a time is playing. I was scratching my head a bit too.

Wait so what is he referring to? He still hasn't explained how installing it on more than one computer in your house is pirating. Besides don't you need the dvd in the drive to play, how is it pirating simply to have it installed on more than one computer when you can't play them simultanously?

I still don't understand how some of you can defend basic fundamental features that don't cost the developer anything and are to your benefit being removed. If you think it's going to slow down the piracy of the game one iota then you clearly have no idea how versatile and adaptive pirates are. The game will be available for download with full functionality soon after release whether you like it or not. All your doing is creating a inconvenience for your self.

You should have read his recent post:  "...the topic of discussion here was and still is, lan. Installing a game on more than one computer for the sake of lan play is piracy and illegal. I bet half the people here don't even realize that." 

Even having no idea what the posts are that he originally referred to, it becomes crystal clear that he meant that installing it on multiple PCs in your house for the purpose of LAN parties is piracy, because whoever plays but doesn't own the game is pirating at that point.  With the "LAN party" part understood, it's obvious that they would indeed be playing them simultaneously.