| vlad321 said:
-No LAN -No cross-region play -No chat rooms -No unified ladder. Even people in the same ladder type were seperated by divisions, of which there were hundreds of even in beta in some ranks of the ladder. -Extremely restricting custom game rules. I don't know if they fixed it in the last month but a few weeks ago a single account could only have a small number of megabytes uploaded at one time and had a limit on how many times you could upload, period. To their credit they did add facebook integration and achievements, so hooray? Just about anyone who has been playing Blizzard games since WC2 Bnet Edition hates this and thinks this iteration of Bnet blows chunks. Everyone else is either brand new to gaming and doesn't know any better, or is manipulated into thinking that what is missing is not important, which it is. Because I mean really, they have added almost no benefits for Bnet2 yet removed so much, only one of those two types of people could actually like Bnet2. P.S. Contrary to what Blizzard would like you to believe, Bnet does indeed have lag, and sometimes it definitely hits hard, so LAN is not obsolete by a long shot. |
There are also a few of us who spent many years playing SC and WC3 on battle.net, and gladly trade what's lost, for the very good matchmaking system. Those like me, log on for 1 reason - to play SC2. Sometimes I play solo, sometimes I play with friends, and you can now get a fair even match faster than EVER before. For those of us who like to just play, not waste our time in chat rooms (because there aren't enough available on the internet?) Battle.net 2.0 is great.
Also, LAN was a feature of SC, it never was a part of battle.net. But it's included in complaints against battle.net because battle.net is now the only way to have multiplayer games.
