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no one has played on the new bnet, how can they say it lags?

No clue, a lot of people argued it, though. We also cannot say it won't lag, either, so it's kind of a moot point, in all honesty.

not really, I never lagged in old bnet, people just need to upgrade their internet if they can' play online, this isn't 10 years ago when fast connections were hard to find or pay for

gaming is a hobby, and like all hobbies you have to fund it

if you are unwilling to fund it, you have no right to qq

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That's a good point.

A lot of people are trying to find tons of reasons why they don't want to be forced to log on Battle.net to be able to play, when their only real reason is: I want to download a pirate version of the game and be able to play the single player & in lan with friends, like a lot of games. Screw that.

I say it's a good thing that Blizzard's trying to include every features that was in the previous games, while still requiring a(minimal) internet connection, to make sure they have a legit account and paid for the game.

They say they want to require a connection to Battle.net for your friendlist and achievements? Thats the politically correct way to say it. They should simply say: Because we want to make sure that if you play, you paid for the f.ing game.

They say they want to require a connection to Battle.net for your friendlist and achievements? Thats the politically correct way to say it. They should simply say: Because we want to make sure that if you play, you paid for the f.ing game.

I thought the same when I read it, but since they didn't actually say that, I didn't want to put it in to the report. It would obviously be assumed and subjectional, although, I feel, logical.

Yup, the truth is "control". They want every person to pay for the game. The real problem I see with Blizzard, is that they are trying to assume a big -steam like- control and thats just not something I agree with, especially since Steam banned me the second my account got hacked (presumably the guy did something), which caused me to lose online to all my game because of a single click, its irreversible, and you have no right to argue about it.

Heck, from the look of it, you may have to connect to your account for single player.

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Hi everyone !
I'm talking for people who are going to buy the game, not for pirates.. !

So basically what Blizzard is saying is that LAN won't be supported because in any cases you will have to be connected to the internet. So no real LAN.. I don't get why some people are getting happy.

Let me explain :

What is real LAN ? Real LAN is (example): " I'm with my cousin and we both bought Diablo III ( because we love Blizzard and their games, we bought them all.. ), but we are at our grandma's house for a week/month(whatever) where there is no internet connection..... Oh Blizzard forgot real LAN support so we can't play together..."

Same for Starcraft II....Sucks
I think that at some point it's a kind of disrespect towards the fans.

So conclusion : No real LAN it seems, you need internet in order to play multiplayer from now on !

This, kinda.

I'm lucky knowing I will not, personally, get into any situation where an internet connection is unavailable (unless something really bad happens), but yep, no real lans.

They are still giving enough tools for pirate to find a way to play between themselves. Would anyone be ashamed of saying, in a case like above (stuck where there is no internect connection, got 2 copy of the games), that they would use the pirated version to play together?

I know, its illegal. But I won't be ashamed to cross lines that shouldn't exist in the first place.

That said, I still think their decisions is a bad one. They are just trying to make it look shiny, but nothing changed.

Quote from "kanzaki_urumi" »

Hi everyone !


What is real LAN ? Real LAN is (example): " I'm with my cousin and we both bought Diablo III ( because we love Blizzard and their games, we bought them all.. ), but we are at our grandma's house for a week/month(whatever) where there is no internet connection..... Oh Blizzard forgot real LAN support so we can't play together..."

sorry but both my grandmas have cable internet and one of them social networks (siiiigh) and the other games (yeazzz)

no excuses

I wonder how long it will take for a LAN crack that confuses the game into thinking its connected to Battle.net and validated :rolleyes:

I agree its not real LAN for exactly that reason.

Yes they are doing this because they dont want people to play pirated versions... When they released SC1 it had a spawn version you could install to play on LAN (thats not pirating, I guess this is definately NOT in SC2.

Also its kinda dumb for them to even provide this kinda support because the way it used to be is a person host the game on their machine, it acts as a server and all TCP/IP communication is really through them with BNET interaction occasionally. Unless in the new BNET they are having everything routed through it (to minimize hacking or whatever there reason is) then two computers behind the same network router would talk quickly anyways.

I guess if your still on 56K this might be better but really they should be minimizing 'excess' traffic anyways! Also I'm sorry if your on 56K but you aren't really dont have any buisness playing games if you are. 56K@$20/M vs cable/DSL/Broadband@$30/month. Spend the extract $10.

My biggest disapointment is exactly what kanzaki_urumi said, when I am not in internet access, vacation or w/e it would be nice to play a game vs a friend through some wifi or (cabled i guess.)

Quote from "edwith" »

Also I'm sorry if your on 56K but you aren't really dont have any buisness playing games if you are.

Stupid judgements like that here are not needed.

Hi,

I think somewhere(forum blizzard or interview) something was said that 56k internet connection won't be enough to play online correctly, I don't really remember what was said or how it was said, so I have no idea where to look to prove this.

For the LAN topic, would it be possible and/or enough to simply ask to confirmed the cd-key in battle.net once and then be able to use this LAN for like 6 month and then you would have to confirmed it again.

Quote from "Destro" »

Hi,

I think somewhere(forum blizzard or interview) something was said that 56k internet connection won't be enough to play online correctly, I don't really remember what was said or how it was said, so I have no idea where to look to prove this.

For the LAN topic, would it be possible and/or enough to simply ask to confirmed the cd-key in battle.net once and then be able to use this LAN for like 6 month and then you would have to confirmed it again.

no, cracks are fun

if blizzard forces people to autoupdate constantly they can catch cheaters

kinda like how VAQ operates, but forces people to actually play a game instead of being fine with being casual

really i dont see why they cant just have a LAN update that requires a CD key to download... problem solved!

Generally speaking, Bnet will always be slower compared to direct peer connection. Logically because the Bnet infra can never be as pervasive. I wouldn't be surprise if they implement a peer-to-peer type connectivity that still require initial handshaking within Bnet.

Like previous poster mentioned, it is all about control, advertising and curbing piracy.

no LAN plz it will ruin my online experience!

Put a shirt on.

I really wish people would stop assuming that wanting LAN = piracy. My friends and I all purchased our own copies of Starcraft. Piracy was never part of our intent. We just want to play the game without an Internet connection.

Battle.net 2.0 indeed looks amazing, but my Internet goes down time and again. I want to be able to play regardless with friends over LAN.