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Jereel Hunter on 23 July 2010
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vlad321 said:
Jereel Hunter said:

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.

So you want a game with less functionality and with less potential to be what others were? Good job, I hence award you the "sheep of the month" award.

Less functionality? Well, most games don't allow you to do a direct connect via modems and phone lines anymore either. And I don't miss those either.

Point is, the functionality lost, for the most part, I didn't care about. Chat rooms? I play with friends, and we use the superb matchmaking. All of us love the new battle.net. I don't talk with random people - I log on, play, log off. Battle.Net has different functionality and infinitely more potential than before. Personally I hate having to find games in crowded lobbies full of bots, and fully embrace the future that blizzard is pushing us towards.

You grant me a "sheep of the month" award because I don't take every opportunity to whine and moan that chat rooms are gone? I don't care that they are gone. And I totally understand blizzard's reasons for doing away with LAN. However, I also know that SC2 is going to be 10x the game that any of blizzard's competitors are going to offer, so even though I liked having LAN as an option, I'm not going to take every opportunity to complain about something that will deliver to me an excellent gaming experience for, no doubt, thousands of hours. You know, if you look at the game for what it is, and not what it ISN'T, you'd realize that you're whining about one of the best put together  biggest budget, most amazing and anticipated games of all time, because you and a vocal minority can't seem to imagine a future where a game's primary focus is... playing the game. Get over it, get over yourself, and complain to blizzard, but stop pasting the same complaints into every StarCraft forum time after time.