Because 9 months out of the year I have outrageously priced, unreliable and slow internet
The other 3 months of the year my internet soars to a whopping 512 kb/s, which would probably be suitable for playing Starcraft2.

No, I'm afraid Lan is the only way for me. I am not a fan of gaming against people I don't know, I just want to be able to play against my friends, and they all are permanently connected to my computer via LAN

How can ur friends be permanently connected to your PC? How does that work. Do u live in the same student dorm or something lol?

A lot of people don't want Blizzard to change anything at all about Starcraft, and I hate those people. They need to evolve the franchise and that's exactly what they are doing. It's a day 1 purchase for me as are all other Blizzard games.

Get rid of the 'or something lol' and yes, that is my situation. Can you see why I like my games to have lan?

Starcraft 2 will let you build gigantic Terran transformers to take on massive Zerg ultralisks that will duke it out with Protoss motherships.

People are picking the wrong game to downplay. It will be awesome, and I can't wait to kick the Dominion's ass with Raynor.

That's great. Ur lucky. The people in my corridor didnt care about games when I was a student and lived in a dorm.

Wow, that woulda sucked. My main problem is trying to get work done without people challenging me to a game of something :P

The gameplay looks great from what they've shown so far, I never played the first one so picked it up over the weekend to try it out.

Did you get brood wars? There's a lot of good things in in but medics just unbalance the game

Didn't Mengsk get captured (and eventually escaped) and the Dominion wiped out in the middle of UED campaign in Brood Wars?

And if the story is anything like BW, Kerrigan will anal rape everyone else in the SC universe 24/7.