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)

"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."

Incorrect its a stupid move. Removing LAN annoys legitimate customers who suddenly don't buy your game (reduced profits), and also prevents quick exposure to possible customers with pirated material who may then go on to buy the game (losing potential sales). It forces excessive load on servers (good luck trying to play SC2 in Australia where the closest Bnet server has a latency of 400-900ms) and un-neccessary bandwidth usage (just more to add onto your monthly cap/throttle limits).

It provides negatives...without any positives.

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