Yeah really! How are they ever gonna sell out those stadiums without Starcraft LAN battles!?

Ha still amazes me that video games sell out before sports or pop stars over there.

I will vote with my wallet. No buy. They just killed 3 client sales from my house alone. I know it wont kill them to not have my money, but on the other hand... thats 3 OTHER games I can buy to play with my family.

Yea hope that doesn't piss them off too much, with their nukes and all.

South and North Korea will finally be reunited, but on the side of EVIL

Oh noes, I guess they'll just have to connect to the internet!

Yeah, even though I couldn't care about LAN play myself, and suspect most players won't miss it either, I'm surprised that this feature is absent, given the popularity of SC in SK and the importance of near-zero-lag for their intense, extremely popular matches. I'd also think it would be really, really simple to implement. Go figure.

Isn't LAN one of the barest essentials to ANY multiplayer PC game?

I mean is it that hard to include something so basic, or will people playing in the same room just have to deal with internet latency?