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Starcraft 2 LAN Petition
No LAN, No FUN, NO BUY!
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| Blizzard has removed LAN abilities from Starcraft 2, a serious departure from the original. This really kills the spirit of local multiplayer play, including tournaments, playing in areas with no Internet access, and other scenarios where in-person play is highly important. | To sign the petition, simply join the site, then click EasyEdit. Add your name on the next row. On twitter? Click here to tweet about signing. |
| Please add your name (user name, handle, or real name) to the following petition if you would like Blizzard to bring LAN abilities back: | |
| Name Justin Kothenbeutel | Location Peoria, IL | Comments Playing with friends is the best way to play period. Playing on Battle.net is secondary to that! | |
Evan McKeever-WarWolfSW Mitchell Merkley (0nimusha) James Marks | Kingston, ON Kingston, ON Las Vegas, NV | Well isn't this a surprise find. Must say i'm not a big supporter of this. I grew up on Starcraft and LAN in my eyes is what has kept Starcraft alive this Zerg invested decade. Allowed my best friend: 0nimusha and I to train our girlfriends to play :P. And they love it! I have loved and continue to love and play Starcraft on LAN!!!!!! Not Battle.net i own the game and can play on it but there is nothing more satisfying than devouring your friends entire army with a hoard of zergling's and hydralisk's then looking over at him and laughing as you watch him struggle to survive in what is obviously his last few moments. Therefore No Lan -> No Pay for game Say it ain't so. We hold Starcraft tourneys every couple months. No LAN ability will ruin the comradery. | |
| Andy Makous | Amman, Jordan | What. The. Hell. No LAN? That was really the reason I was looking forward to StarCraft Fine, at least they have Battle.Net support, but a) it lags like a B****, and b) there's always problems about my freaking firewall when I wanna play with friends. If they have to do that crap, then why not make it so that you have to register online like on battle.net before unlocking the LAN option. That would work, and would EVERYONE happy. And then they could use their insane programming skillz (like on the WoW servers) to prevent that part from ever being unlocked, by maybe making an installer, that only runs once, and you have to be connected to battle.net for it to unlock, so that pirates couldn't just pirate the installer. That would be a nice even go round, and everyone would be happy. | |
| Mark Nelson | Phoenix, AZ | Long-time SC player, much less excited about SC2 thanks to this move by Blizzard. | |
| StarFighter33 | LA, CA | What will this do to the Korean pro market? I was hoping pro-leagues would be big in the U.S. as well. | |
| Dustpaint | Seattle, WA | Don't mind using Battle.net, but really want LAN as an option for multiple players in one location with slow Internet connections. | |
| Andrew Galbraith | Chicago, IL | LAN is sometimes the only option for people who may not have access to a strong internet connection. Come on Blizzard! | |
| Shi Min Tan | Nagoya, Japan | Not fair. Don't like the direction Blizzard is heading in. | |
| James Henderson | Birmingham,AL | I attend LAN events regularly that do not have an active internet connection. Please add it back | |
| Tassio Canhadas | São Paulo, Brazil | Its meaningless disable this option, the question is: WHY NOT? put on? PLease understand us blizzard... Thanks! | |
| Jeff Hill | Sacramento, Ca | What a terrible decision. LAN can lead to some of the most fun anyone can have with a Starcraft game. Please bring it back. Don't fix what ain't broke. | |
| Wouter van den Boogaard | Beuningen, Holland | It would be nice the have LAN on SC2. the plane reason for me is: me and my friends play SC on LAN party's only the rooms we rent for the LAN have no access to the Internet. And we love to play the game with each other. If blizzard wants there fans to be happy why not put the option in?! (btw if they don't... half the worlds gaming press would piss on SC2 coz they don't have a LAN function) | |
| Chris Mariani | Salt LakeCity, UT | WTB LAN! PST! | |
| Elmrig | Kobe, Japan | Lan plix | |
| JJ Hill | Redmond, WA | Attn. Blizzard: this is a big deal to us. It would mean a lot to your advocates to support LAN! | |
| Erik Ebert | Foster City, CA |
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| EndersChosen | Rexburg, ID | If you take out LAN you take out the number 1 way I play this game. It doesn't make any sense to me to eliminate LAN for piracy reasons because there are other ways of going about preventing piracy and still having LAN play. | |
| Jazz English | Renton,WA | I have a very week internet connection, and without land will not be able to play. Also, at my school the game is restricted online, however we would play SC1 via LAN in the computer lab every day at lunch. I was hoping to do this with SC2 when school starts up again. | |
| Katie Metzelaar | Sacramento, CA | Removing LAN capabilities makes no sense, and in my opinion will definitely hurt long term sales of games like SC2 if they don't have LAN capabilities. The reason I even knew about and started wanting to play these games WAS because of friends at a LAN party. Not to mention internet restrictions that many family households or college campuses have preventing people form hosting their own games on battle.net. What is the fun in playing if nearly everybody you know can't host? And here I was really looking forward to this... | |
| Joshua Pearson | Lehi, UT | My family can't play together on Battle.net. too laggy. | |
| Bryce Ledner | Centerport, NY | There is no reason for my friends to buy this game if there's no LAN support, our gaming parties would be for naught! | |
| Raj Anand | Brooklyn, NY | WTF? Say it ain't so. This kills some of my awesome gamer party plans for early 2010! | |
| William Grim | Sleepy Hollow, NY | Keep LAN in SC2. It's the only good way to have a computer gaming party. What about people without Internet at LAN parties? Plus, why get all that latency when you could have instant network game communication? This is all about money, Blizzard, and it's ridiculous. | |
| Apollo2030 | Deventer, Holland | Come on, Blizzard we are playing SC for ten years or so and now with such a beauty SC2 we have to fight the bots? weforgot how it is to fight a bot, we didn`t it from first 3 months of playing SC - LAN is the core source of viability of this game. Otherwise it becomes something like "played and thrown" - big mistake IMHO | |
| Rafael Sousa | Manaus, Brazil | No LAN? What? No money to buy Starcraft 2 too =/ | |
| Daniel Zeidman | Raleigh, North Carolina | How are the Koreans going to hold massive tournaments if they cant LAN? How are we going to play with our friends at home, or throw LAN parties? This doesnt make much sense. Please bring LAN play back! | |
| Df_Yz | Ukraine | StarCraft 2 without LAN will die soon after release. | |
| Jared Schmidt | Rockville, MD | The entire concept of LAN parties in my circle of friends kicked off with StarCraft. To be able to play locally, without having to worry about Internet connectivity and simply host a game right in the living room (or anywhere else in the house for that matter), has been the primary reason we have stuck with StarCraft for all of these years. No need to sign on or subscribe to a service — none of the hassles associated with other games and the reason those games generally were not played. It was easy to just be up and running regardless of who the host was. Please reconsider the impact this will have on the franchise and the gamer support. | |
| James Scott | Forest, VA | StarCraft without LAN support is like cookies without flower, flat and mushy. LAN gaming was something I always looked forward to when some of my friends would get together, or for that matter, when my family was looking for something interesting to do, and StarCraft was always a big part of that. | |
| Shea L (jacfalcon) | S, Washington | Wow, another reason for fans to wonder if Blizzard actually cares about them... jeez... PUT IT BACK! | |
| Brandon | So Cal | This will not prevent piracy. This will anger fans and those who buy the game. EA must have bought out Blizzard. | |
| jinchoung | glendale, ca | refrain from draconian attempts at CONTROL. you will alienate and fail. don't force people to hack the game to get something they expect. "customer is always right" and the more you resist that, the more resentment and ill will you will collect and the more you will inspire grass roots hacking to counter you. COMMUNITY in battlenet should be enough. the desire to belong to a community is a great way to appeal to legitimate purchase. strong-arming sucks and we'll hate you for it. be win7 not vista! finally, i am korean and i command you. | |
| Fenn101 | Pocatello, ID | Not having something as simple as LAN support in SC2 makes me rethink my purchase options. | |
| Lasher | KL, Msia | Public wi-fi access is still very poor in this part of the world. LAN support is CRUCIAL. | |
| Robert M. | Maryland | LAN support made Starcraft great. No LAN Support will make Starcraft II a failure. If the decision was hard, Blizzard, then it was WRONG. | |
| Robert S. | Hagerstown, MD | This is a terrible decision. With no LAN support, I refuse to purchase StarCraft 2. My group has played StarCraft via LAN for many years. If you do not add LAN play back in to StarCraft 2, I guess it is time for my group to switch to Dawn of War for our LAN RTS of choice... | |
| teejnits | Columbus, OH | I understand Blizzards theory that if people lug their computers/laptops around for a LAN party that they will still want to play on BNET... The problem is, I still have friends who just want to LAN... Sometimes we don't want to get onto a live server. I just came from a offline LAN party, so I know that exists. LAN may be a dying thing, but it's not dead yet, and of all games, with a history of LAN parties everywhere, Starcraft isn't the game to be removing LAN capabilities. Thanks. | |
| Kaur Tammik | Tallinn, Estonia | I bought the original SC years ago and I have played on Battle.net less than 20 battles...though on LAN i play almost every other week. That´s because if we tried to host and play on the battle.net (with even as few as 3 people) against each other, latency proved a very big issue for us and thus we never play on battle.net. The whole idea and fun with LAN is that friends come together drink beer and play against each other..without that option we simply wont play SC2 other than just finishing the campaign and thats it. in about a few months the game will be dead for us. (quite a difference compared to SC1 which STILL is our top choice for LAN RTS) | |
| Rebecca Rasmussen | Lafayette, CO | In our family Starcraft is one of the games we play the MOST at LAN parties. When the extended family gets together we play, but we don't always have internet connection. Without LAN we won't be able to play all the time. I love original starcraft. What's the point in buying the second if I can't play it with my family, particularly my husband? A date night for us is firing up the computers and playing. | |
| Jonathan Walters | Orlando, FL | This is a poor decision that will alienate more players than it prevents from pirating the game. Has no company learned from examples like Stardock? If you make a quality, fun and well-supported product, people will pay for it even if it completely lacks copy protection. Eliminating what many diehard fans consider a 'core function' of the game will only anger the people that made the first game (and the series) as popular as it is and cause many more to pirate the game that would otherwise have not in the first place. Just hurts to see that money is more important than being loyal to the fanbase... | |
| Jason Wood | Lehi, UT | This will not prevent piracy it will just hurt those of us who will buy the game and want to play on LAN. If you want to encourage people to use battle.net then make it so good that they want to. Don't make it our only option. I played Starcraft on bnet and LAN a lot. I still play Warcraft III on bnet AND LAN. I would like to play Starcraft II via bnet AND LAN. Pirates will make it work with LAN somehow and those of us who pay for the game will end up with a crippled version and the pirates will lose nothing. Terrible strategy Blizzard. | |
| Schneff | Foxboro, MA | I used to play on battle.net all the time back when Starcraft had just come out. For the last 7 years or so I've been exclusively playing over a LAN against my friends. I've done this within the past week. This decision by Blizzard makes me want to pirate it instead of support them. | |
| Alex | Holland, MI | Starcraft is one of the most popular games at LAN parties, this will change if LAN party is not available in Star Craft 2. | |
| Mason Albright | Minneapolis, MN | Just cancelled my pre-order to the game today and now have decided not to buy it because Blizzard is completely retarded. Absolutely just ruined it with this final stunt they just pulled. | |
| Steve Lott | Cincinnati, OH | Starcraft has always been the most popular game at our campus/work LAN parties. I don't normally even bother playing RTS games online anymore because LAN play has become the primary feature to me. This move by Blizzard has completely ruined my excitement for the game and in honesty, I probably will not by the game anymore. | |
| Matt 'Mierdin' Oswalt | Cincinnati, OH | Blizzard is retarded for removing LAN from SCII. I've no desire to purchase the game anymore. | |
| Art Quarequio | Bethany, CT | LAN was most of the fun in Starcraft! How can they possibly take that away? | |
| Charlie Parker | Tulsa, OK | LAN was what made Starcraft for my roomates (not parents) in college so memorable. Please do not remove LAN access. | |
| Tim Jahn | Seattle, WA | With slow internet LAN is the best way for all my friends to play games. Without it Blizzard is missing out on 10 purchases just from my little circle of gaming friends. | |
| Stealth Albino | StarCraft has endured all these years party because it is in fact an awesome game, but mainly because of the ability to play over LAN. Should LAN support be unavailable in StarCraft II the game will never live up to what StarCraft was and is, and will more than likely die out within a few years. Not everyone has or desires to play over the internet. So long as 802.3 exists, so will LANs. They are by far the most effective way to play multiplayer games; not having to rely on an ISP, lag, server timeouts, and the other difficulties associated with playing over the internet. Blizzard, we are your loyal customers, many of us have been for years, and in this instance, we are right. We encourage you to not remove LAN support from the game, and by doing so we will continue to support you so long as you give us quality games. | ||
| Ben Simmons | Lincoln, CA | I still have SC on my computer because my friends and I enjoy playing it over a LAN. I've played a grand total of 2 battlenet games. No LAN suport in SC2 = me not buying it, and my friends not buying it. | |
| Matthew | Maine | Removing LAN will completely ruin what my brother and I planned on playing together. On a side note, Blizzard is silly for thinking this will stop people from pirating and playing the game. There is always a way around it. | |
| Michael | Chattanooga, TN | No LAN support? Why not? I mean isn't that just taking the choice right out of our hands. Seriously Blizzard, boo. I can't see a reason to not let your patrons, customers, supporters, etc. have the option of something that you've included in ALL of your games prior to WoW. And if fear of piracy is the real reason....yaargh prepare t'be boarded...cause this is a challenge that pirates, hackers, and other members of the underground cyber counter culture crave "HACK B.NET? OK!". Put it back! It won't make a **** bit of difference if you leave it out, someone will find a way to hack and slash. Another thing thing is that I'm not usually on b.net anyway. If I can find a way to get a seriously low latency game I'll do it and LAN is the way to go ....I'm rambling cause i'm pissed sorry....PUT LAN SUPPORT BACK. | |
| Brendan | Johannesburg, South Africa | Not all of us have high speed internet, and not everyone in the world has an internet connection stable enough to support online play. If there's no LAN support, then there's no reason for me to buy the game. | |
| Keith | North Port, Fl | Come on guys, seriously? LAN is a ridiculously fun way to play games, this really took away some motivation towards buying Starcraft 2 | |
| Jman | Fairbanks, AK | I don't buy RTS games that don't have LAN support. Making things worse is their claims of why they are doing it; they are doing it as an anti-piracy measure. I am so tired of the gimped-by-design craze that is going around in the name of anti-piracy. Besides I will bet that if they continue with the no LAN support, hackers will add it within a month or two. | |
| Philtbc | Melbourne, Australia | Why is Blizzard breaking with this tradition?? ..as much as I want this game, I will not buy it if Blizzard leaves LAN support out of SC2... | |
| Rory Conner | Stevensville, MI | This seems unfortunate. Truth be told I never used LAN when I played but I know of the major importance of LAN to Starcraft. Piracy may be a problem but this is not the way to solve it. I may still cave and buy the game however I will try to stay srong and support this cause. | |
| Sanira Ninoje Silva | Colombo, Srilanka | Starcraft the best game ever, I cannot wait to try it on Lan... | |
| Jordan McVicar | San Antonio, Tx | This is beginning to piss me off. I have had the game pre-ordered, paid in full for over a year now. Since then, they have broken the game up into 3 seperate games, and now they take away the LAN feature. I am getting ready to go back to GameStop and get my money back, and forget the game all together. Blizzard is ripping the heart and soul out of StarCraft. | |
| Mathew west | Carson city, NV | I will not buy starcraft if it dos not come with lan support! Boycott! | |
| Guillermo | Glendale, AZ | Put LAN support in the game, it's the best way to play the original | |
| Victor Lara | Lima, Perú | Please don't do this blizzard. Don't force me to wait for the pirate copy, I've bought every game you've ever published because you make great games man, but this really sucks. Who am I supposed to play this with? Hell, the first Starcraft let me spawn off copies to my friends, now I can't even share the game in my own home? Are you going to make me pay for Battle.net too? | |
| Ryan | Portland, OR | Question, Blizzard. If you do implement a required CD key check for Battlenet, why are you removing LAN? I'm sure we could have a compromise here, but for now, LAN please. Without it, the small groups of SC2 players simply won't exist. | |
| R.Wells | Newberg, OR | My kids and I have purchased many Blizzard games from SC1 to Warcraf and WoW. My kids still play Warcraft III on our network at least once a week. We won't be buying SC2 if there's no way to play locally, more lost sales here Blizzard. | |
| Thomas | French (Savoie) | WHAT!!!!! No Lan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Blizzard -**** you; thanks! | |
| Phillip Miles | Australia | We don't all have goog internet. Bettle.net is just not possible for me. Blizzard need to think some more on this even if the game takes longer to go gold. | |
| S Hamm | Dover, DE | I have been preventing my children from accessing blizzard.net and I always play StarCraft with my kids. This is to protect my children from exposing themselves to predators. We were excited for Starcraft 2 for long time until today. Lack of LAN support really do DISAPPOINT my children and I will not allow them to buy StarCraft simply because it forces us to use Blizzard.net to connect us together. I have ZERO tolerance policy about allowing my children to expose themselves on the INTERNET. | |
| GenThrift | China/Australia | The original Starcraft came with a "Spawn" copy option that encouraged players to share the LAN experience with friends. I'd have never even gotten into the game if my friends hadn't introduced it to me via LAN. Now people have to buy the complete game just to try it and we still can't LAN anyway. Lets face facts, this game will be hacked and will have some sort of LANsolutioncracked because it's what people demand. Hackers will get what they want but still they've never been able to get onto bnet. All this does is remove value for people who do buy the product andcriminalizesthem for needing to download cracks etc to LAN with friends. As an avid watcher of WC3 tournaments in Asia even the most important Bnet matches have lag and broadcasting issues while the televised LAN events run flawlessly. Finally, not everyone wants complete stat tracking. For many gaming is a way to relax not compeditively chase stats (profitable for blizzard as it may be) and often chasing stats causes many players to rig games, cheat and cause other sorts of online abuse. | |
| Chilton | Australia | LAN was possibly the greatest thing about Warcraft series... me and my friends always get together and play lan games and we we're really looking forward to doing the same with starcraft 2.... if blizzard are doing this to stop piracy... well i will pirate the game because i think gaming companies have got to come to terms with piracy; accept it happens and and entice their customers into buying the game because they do what their fans want!!! | |
| Tiago Carvalho | Sao Paulo - Brazil | What if I have two computers but without internet connection, even if I had internet connection it would end up being slow here in Brazil anyway, without LAN I will simply not play multiplayer... | |
| Josh Martin | Richmond, VA | I've hosted many LAN tournaments for the original Starcraft and LAN play was absolutely essential for the experience to run smoothly. Even the old Starcraft would completely ruin the internet connection after more than about 8-10 people started playing on Battle.net. Blizzard cannot even try to pretend that the new game's packets will be smaller or that it will run smoother than the original game under the same conditions. No LAN play also ruins geographical competitive spirit. When I was in my college dorm, you could open up the old LAN game search and find maybe 6-10 open games within the dorm network and it was fun to always be playing someone in the same building as you. This is a bad move Blizzard, please reconsider. | |
| Jeremy White | Bloomington, IN | Me and my friends get together and have LAN parties all the time. We don't always have internet access and removing LAN is crippling a feature that should be there to open up gaming oppurtunities. | |
| Fabian Feldberg | Hagen, Germany | Honestly I can't understand what motivated Blizzard to do this, I regularly host lans with some friends and I know several people who decided not to buy Starcaft 2 because of the missing Lan option. Maybe they'll still buy it, because like me they are die-hard Blizz fans but Blizzard is throwing away lots of trust boni with this move. So Please reconsider guys ;) | |
| Chris Fleury | Pittsburg, KS | I rarely played SC1 online. Most was in a LAN situation. We didn't always have internet access in the places we could find room to LAN. The pirates are going to find a way regardless of what you do. Don't alienate your paying customers to delay the inevitable. I will not purchase this game without LAN support even though I love Starcraft. No one else on this petition should either. Lower than expected sales might be the only way to get the message through and have LAN support patched in later. | |
| Connor Morhart | Victoria, BC | First of all LAN is awesome for when your net is down, or when it's really laggy AND half of the blizzard fans will be SEVERELY pissed forever, and the guy above makes a good point. | |
| Tommy Andersen | Telemark, Norway | What is SC whitout LAN!? Seriously! No LAN no game.. 'nuff said. | |
| John Epperson | Seward, NE | I've always touted Blizzard's respect for their customers as the main reason that they have been successful. I have no desire to be a part of this. I used to use LAN all the time. Still do. Needless to say, I will not be recommending this game to any of my friends and family without it. I'm voting with my wallet and my recommendations. | |
| Sebastian | Sydney, Australia | I am not a thief, just an old core gamer who is really p****ed, both petitions have about 17,000 and 87,000 names so far - that's a lot of families and hosters of LAN who are willing to boycott the game. I am still not convinced that this might not just be some marketing cr*p to get us all talking. The average age of a game in Australia is early 30's, we have families now and are introducing our kids to games. Guess whose kids won't be allowed on b.net or on the internet for quite some time... Short-sighted money grubbing tools... go away Blizzard, peddle your once great name. We will look to other games that will do what we want and spend our money there. | |
| Drummond | Indianapolis, IN | I play (yes still play) my SC on LAN. I prob wont buy SC2 until it has some form of LAN support.. stupid | |
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| Josh B | Lake Forest, CA | Honestly, no LAN support? I hold LAN parties all the time, and to have another so called 'anti-piracy' measure here just bums me out. World of Warcraft made Blizzard too large. Like EA, they'll learn the hard way what these measures do. The way I've seen it, the less measures to anti-piracy, the less piracy that takes place. The reason I bought all the other Blizzard games was because it was easy and fun to set up for LAN parties. Games with no piracy measures, like Half Life One, and a few others, are still selling. I bet that, within a few days of the release, there will be copies of the game, cracked copies, that everybody will have access to. I'm sick of this anti-piracy ******** that everybody does. Half the games I buy I can't even play without downloading some illegal crack, just because of the copy protection, or whatever. It end up useless. It's sad that Blizzard has come to the same situation. I don't know a single person at school that owns a single legitimate copy of World of Warcraft, aside from the usual stereotype rich kid. There are well over a thousand kids at my school, and more than half of those kids play. Obviously, something is going wrong when all of my friends don't pay for a game they waste their time on. I still play LAN games of Starcraft on occasion, using my friend's CD. That's what made Starcraft so cool: with one CD, we could set up a whole house. The strange part was, after I played Starcraft, I bought the actual game, and one of my friends bought it as well. I lost the CD, but hell, LAN's fun. Don't get rid of it. | |
| C Bingham | Alberta, Canada | As an owner of the original SC game, I am apalled by the fact that in your (BLIZZARD's) ignorance you are ignoring the very feature that gave you the ability to produce this sequel in the first place. SC 1 is arguably the best RTS game in history. You would think you might want that to continue but everyone is confused as to why you would leave LAN out. It is sickening to find another arrogant corporation that thinks they can squeeze another nickel and dime out of customers by making them think that they need to pay for additional services just to play your game. This is a bad move BLIZZARD!!. I am glad I don't own shares in your company and I am considering not even purchasing a copy of SC 2 and regarldess of how "great" the new features are. I wouldn't even recommend buying it to anyone. Pull your head out of the sand... | |
| Jason Foley | Tennessee | I own a 16-port switch purchased specifically for LAN play. I also know many others that can't get anything other than dialup or *really* laggy satellite (1500ms+). Both DSL and cellphone service are spotty. Those who can get Verizon service get extorted @$60/mo for no more than a dollar worth of bandwidth (5GB/mo - $0.20/GB is high). Make LAN available and you won't be opening up the market for your competitors to release a superior product. Last I checked, Starcraft isn't the only RTS game on the market just as WoW isn't the only MMORPG. I also signed the petitionhere and there are over 100 thousand additional signatures. |
| Reynald Brassard | Vancouver, Canada | I'v been paying Starcraft since it came out, and most of my friends started playing because of LAN Parties. They're the kind of people who like sports and don't play video games, but when they watched how fun the LAN games were they got hooked and all of them bought it. I met many people who would have never played it without it having a LAN option, and i know for a fact they wouldn't be interested in playing Starcraft 2 if it doesn't have that. You can't make an RTS without LAN, it's unheard of! I myself love the story as well as the online play so i'm getting it regardless, but you're just hurting yourself Blizzard. |
| Jonathan McGahey Ala Negru De Respira Greu | Australia Romania | We used to do lan parties... we all had legal copy's and we all played lan... now that it's battlenet we'd all be using the net and that would be the most crap thing possible... this is the most stupid thing i have seen happen with a game that grew to the size it did.. Starcraft was a huge hit and then you reck it if something as stupid as this... don't you people think... you'd be getting way more sales if you put lan in... let's just say this is the most stupid thing i've seen so far.. i doubt any other company would be as stupid as to do this.... there's a very good reason people like lan... for one it's faster then going through the internet no matter what... your battlenet is never going to be faster then a lan game... admit it.. even bad computers play better lan then internet and i doubt your battlenet would make that any better now would it... think before you do things for once We've pirated Starcraft 1 like there's no tomorrow and removing the LAN abilities from Starcraft 2 won't change that fact even a little bit. Put protections in place, remove features, it doesn't really matter, you're just hurting the ones who really pay for your creations. |
| Jonathan James | Highland Falls, New York | Do they not realize that the point of LAN parties is to sit around with your friends ALL night/weekend/week, play games, eat pizza, and drink all while NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET! Not having LAN takes away the face to face contact people get from LANing it up. This is RIDICULOUS!! Completely and absurdly RIDICULOUS. I wasn't too happy about Blizzard canceling Starcraft: Ghost, I wasn't happy about the release date being pushed back too many times to count, I wasn't happy about the game being released on 3 different disks for the campaign of each race, I wasn't happy that a demo is not being released, and now I hear there is NOT going to be a LAN feature because of possible piracy?!?!?!?! How much do you want this game to fail Blizzard? Do you guys not realize you could make WAY MORE money with the release of this game than WoW could ever have in the years it's been online. Get your heads out of your rear ends and quit SCREWING OVER THE FANS OF STARCRAFT! |
| Trent Miles Jack Flaxton | Baton Rouge, LA South-West, UK | I have played your games since i was about 12 and i really enjoyed the game. I played when i was at home over B.net but most of the time and the reason i played to get good was to pit my skills i acquired over battle net against my friends in face to face combat via LAN. In fact during the last week i have played starcraft via LAN on 3 seperate occasions, and have personally owned 3 copies of the game because of destruction or loss. If starcraft 2 comes out without a lan i will not be able to go to my friends house and play together because they have a crappy internet connection, and what will be made worse is 6 computers all held together by that same crappy internet. Battlenet is not an option for us as I'm sure it isn't for many other people. On this note i am also very disappointed in Blizzard as a company. I used to respect Blizzard as the best company because of their devotion to their fans, the main incident that comes to mind is canceling Starcraft Ghost because it was a crappy game, so instead of releasing a crappy game and making tons of people pay for it, you canceled it and took the production hit so that your fans did not think any less of you. Where is this chivalry when it comes to making what by all accounts looks like a good game into a great game. Why are you stopping short of gold for the possibility of a few bucks here or there? No LAN... insane... |
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| dustpaint | Petition Started | 2 | Aug 30 2009, 8:10 AM EDT by Mike_Bruinsma | ||
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Thread started: Jun 30 2009, 7:06 PM EDT
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Be sure to sign the petition if you haven't already: http://www.starcraft-fans.com/page/Starcraft+2+LAN+Petition
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| RigglzNZ | What no lan ! | 0 | Feb 1 2010, 10:39 PM EST by RigglzNZ | ||
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Thread started: Feb 1 2010, 10:39 PM EST
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I can not believe that they are not going to included it. I will not buy it if it does not have lan. :-((((
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| JackFlaxton | No LAN? No Sanity? | 0 | Jan 4 2010, 1:22 PM EST by JackFlaxton | ||
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Thread started: Jan 4 2010, 1:22 PM EST
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No LAN capability is unthinkably insane... I cannot imagen a world without...
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| danbry | NO Lan NO BUY BOYCOTT | 0 | Jul 18 2009, 8:58 PM EDT by danbry | ||
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Thread started: Jul 18 2009, 8:58 PM EDT
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Blizzard was cool until this lame lame lame lame decision. I will not buy the game if there is no lan, and I will encourage others not to buy the game(which won't be hard because we can't play together anyways unless we have a super fast computer with a super fast internet which is super expensive and ridiculous)BLIZZARD YOU BETTER RETHINK YOUR DECISION OR YOU HAVE LOST A FAN/BUYER OF YOUR PRODUCTS FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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