tube82 said:
i don't think so. LAN modes may be dead, but not LAN play! (at least not for me) internet connections nowadays are good enough for multiple online connections. i don't mind blizzard removing the LAN mode if it helps with piracy. i know i'll host lan parties with friends where each of use will log into our battle.net accounts from my place and play as a "virtual lan". |
"virtual lan" will never be as good, battlenet has a set latency that will never be able to compete with true lan. I guess if all your buddies are in the same room you'll be fine, but the second one of your friends bails on the lan party and says "I'll play at home" everything is f*cked, unless you have some nice fiber optic connections. Same if you have 4 buddies on LAN and want to play a public game with 4 other randoms. You could eliminate problems like that before with programs like Listchecker for WC3. Now SC2 will have the same problems console FPS haz, host advantage =P.
