Surprising no one, StarCraft II fans petition for LAN support

by Justin McElroy on Jul 1st 2009 5:00PM

You can say that we're getting old, but this petition, created by StarCraft II fans that want to see LAN support included in the game, is actually making us a little nostalgic. The air is once more thick with with slight, reedy voices crying fruitlessly out for ultimately inconsequential change! It's intoxicating!

But we have to admit that their opener, "We, your most loyal fans, implore you to reconsider adding LAN as a network feature to StarCraft II," is a little soft for our taste. C'mon guys, when this totally doesn't work at all, you need to feel like you gave it your best shot.

[Via Eurogamer]

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Tags: blizzard, lan, pc, petition, rts, starcraft-2

Reader Comments (101)

wow, it looks so natural there :O

Almost TOO natural...

That's what she said.

LOLZ at comments

At least now she has her own tentacles to do things with...

Oh lord, nice Dead Space mouth on Kerrigan haha.

The dead space photoshops have made my day today

i don't see her...

OMG! I CAN NOT BELIEVE THIS COULD HAPPEN!!!!

freaking pirates

Freaking Blizzard.

piracy is a moot point in this arguement it nothing more than a scapegoat which doesnt exsist most pirated games can be played over the internet the sameway if you know what your doing my mates and i have already decided not to pick this up without lan since we still play starcraft via lan on a regular basis

it's almost a little too photoshopped.

9/10 good one lads(/ladies?)

Jeez they're getting good at this!

Best one so far.

definitely fits in the best

looks so natural, you can still see a bit of kerrigan's face and that helps a lot. Best one yet

The pissed off attitude from the D3 petitions didn't work, so maybe some sugary-sweet arse kissing will work for SC2.

On an unrelated note: I see the Dead Space woman when I close my eyes now. Thanks.

Well, the D3 petitions were asking for a complete overhaul of various aspects of the game. (Usually the art, I think?)

The starcraft 2 petition is just asking for Lan support. As requests go, that's...pretty reasonable in comparison.

asking an elephant to bake you a cake would seem more reasonable than the D3 petition

well, there are those elephants that paint....

As a person who doesn't even have a computer close to his desktop, I think that this is a very minor request and should have been implemented on the drawing board. How could you not implement LAN support when the money-maker that allowed you to become a multi-billion dollar company made its name off of LAN support. Heck, I'd use it even if I just needed to hook up my GF's laptop to my desktop so we can play together.

Also, I mean look at what LAN support did for the original XBox. The most fun I ever had was playing drunk halo multiplayer with 16 of my friends in college before xbox live was implemented (and even after since the original halo didn't support it).

It wont work because its pointless. Its like making a petition to support 16bit color instead of only 32bit. Whats the point? The internet is going to provide an identical experience, even sharing the internet among a bunch of people is fine since its an RTS.

Theres no reason they should support LAN in todays age. Even the petition cant figure out a valid reason to support LAN, anyone with a router in their house is going to have internet access. You can infact play more than one game at a time while sharing an internet connection. Blizzard isnt going to waste money developing something that has no purpose to exist, theres always going to be people that are deluded, you cant please them all.

Yeah, I'm hoping this works. It is getting tons of sigs pretty fast though. It was 8,000 yesterday when I checked, now it's at 25,000. Probably be close to 100,000 by sunday.

A lot of people had no problem with the D3 palette (me for instance) but I'm pretty sure removing LAN functionality is going to affect a lot more players.

I guess I need a sarcasm tag because: Is Joystiq saying LAN is "inconsequential"?

Yeah, what is the point of LAN now we have the wonderous world of online multiplayer?
Come on do you honestly find it a better experience to go round to a mates house with a few beers n snacks comparing machines, chatting n killing the hell out of each other, over sitting on your tod talking smack to a bunch of people you've never met?

........you could always do BOTH

Blizzard could always include BOTH....
:D

....Is that Kerrigan vs Zeratul?

Holy hell I need that as a wallpaper!

With, you know, her real mouth.

But the real mouth is INFERIOR!

ohhhhhhhh......

Justin's got this shit down to a science

Can we petition that there be no more petitions? Also a Petition for a release date? Also a Petition to put dead space girl on joystiq for life?

Please no (to the last one). It was old before it started.

dear Neuromancer,
please get a sense of humour.
love, charlie

Neuromancer, are you saying that Dead Space Girl transcends time itself!?!?!? Amazing!

DSG for Joystiq mascot!

"Neuromancer, are you saying that Dead Space Girl transcends time itself!?!?!? "

Yes... And not in the good way either.

I may as well stop reading Joystiq until tomorrow (assuming they stop then).

dear charlie,
i have a sense of humour, however I don't find this funny. i do fully realize i'm about the only one. i am legend.
love, neuromancer

is it there??? i can't see her...

If you have a lan set up, and you have starcraft 2, chances are incredibly high that you also have internet... So who needs lan when you can all just hop on battle.net and play with each other -- be it in the same room or wherever else you want to.

because that would make sense. And as we've seen before with Blizzard fans, logic isn't their fortes

It's to partially prevent the incredible amount of piracy that's going to happen to this game. Instead of passing around the disc, just installing the game, getting the updates and playing on LAN with a CD-crack, they're forcing everyone to get their own copy with CD-key and play online.

And with the Blizzard B.Net accounts applied to your name and such people can't really steal your key to make their own with a Keygen.

It's a rather smart move on their part.

For one, it would be kind of silly to not be able to play the game on a LAN during times when Bnet, or your own internet, is down for whatever reason. I think people are also worried that Bnet will eventually become a pay service of some sort and that this is just another step in that direction... force people to use it by removing LAN functionality.

Maybe, just maybe, LAN is nice because having 8 people connect to the internet over one line sending data back and forth to bnet is clearly going to lag more than having them all on one 100mbps network talking to each other.

Or, maybe, it would be nice to be able to keep playing the game once Blizzard decides to close up bnet (which WILL happen at some point).

Clearly the people defending Blizzard or acting like this is nothing have never had a LAN party.

My brother, brother-in-law, HIS brother-in-law, my best friend, and myself went on a "Hunting trip" a years back.

We stayed in a cabin... in the woods... in the Middle-of-Freaking-Nowhere, Texas.
But we were geeks. Geeks who like to sleep. Geeks who like to sleep, and don't really ACTUALLY hunt... just love to shoot guns.
So we spent the 4 days cooking steaks in the cabin and playing Starcraft on a LAN with our old, shitty laptops.

Then, on the last day, to say that we "went outside"... we walked out to a clearing a shot some cans and other trash for about an hour.

Would this wonderful weekend have been possible without the wonders of Lan support? I think not.

THAT... is why people are angry. We'll be forced to HUNT on our hunting trips. Pssptf!

Well maybe you shouldn't go on hunting trips.

Plan your trips like this:

-Stay in a house, play starcraft for days on end
-When bored of said starcraft, drive to somewhere you can shoot
-Proceed to shoot guns at various pieces of trash
-return home
-repeat

-8 people sharing a 8mb internet connection isn't as good as 8 folks with their own gigabit connection each
-SC1 let you share the multiplayer portion with your key with upto 8 people, so the piracy argument is bull cos their last version had it kinda built in
-LAN has been a fundamental part of PC games for decades, especially RTS's n co, it'd be like removing keyboard support and making it all mouse only interface, so there is the principal of taking away LAN
-Even 360 games have LAN
-It won't stop piracy cos of the whole "pirates jsut wont buy it anyway" argument n cos the pirated version will probably have LAN, for Free!!
-fear of Battle.NET becoming pay per use like Live.

Battle.net doesn't host the game, it just enables it. The game creator still hosts the game.

What does this mean?

It means the if you're on a LAN, playing while connected to Battle.net, you still still get LAN speeds. Only the authentication and stat tracking is done through the internet uplink.

For proof: See WC3.

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Surprising no one, StarCraft II fans petition for LAN support

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