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but at least sc2 also has no lan. now communities from both games can bitch

LOL! At least Diablo 3 will be fun by itself. I won't be buying SC2 anymore. The whole point of buying that game was to have LAN parties with friends.

This is absurd. I am not purchasing Starcraft 2 anymore. I was willing to forgive Diablo 3's lack of LAN play (since the game is still fun by itself), but Starcraft 2 is inherently a LAN-based game.

This is like selling a car without wheels. It just defeats the point of buying it.

There are many reasons beyond protecting kids to want LAN play.

The Internet is not perfectly connected to the entire planet. Where I live, slow/dropped connections are fairly common. Plus, I just prefer playing with friends in the same room. There is absolutely no good reason that our computers should have to connect to the Internet just to play with people in the same room. My friends and I all pay for our own copies, so we don't deserve be babysat/authenticated either.

I have absolutely no ill will toward Battle.net. It's a great service, but the addition of LAN play will not harm that community.

I have a dual core at 2.4 GHz each. I hope that's enough.

You do know that the 1.12 patch allows you to play without the CD, right? That has been out for quite a while.

I want the same number of acts but with a complete set of Act IV quests.

New sets would make me very happy.

Nerfed rune words would be nice.

I wish the D2 gems actually scaled properly. They did not do nearly enough damage by the time Nightmare/Hell rolled around. It was high runes or bust.

I want a patch to let me play the game without having the CD in the tray... Oh wait, they already did that.

Nothing. I'm good.

I like the idea of being unable to buy Town Portals from vendors. If they were kept as really special drops that began appearing in Nightmare, they may even become the new Diablo currency.

"Hey, man. I'll trade you my Uber Windforce for 38 town portals."

We'll also start seeing common game names: "brg tp x8"

LOLOLOLOL

TPs removed all danger from Diablo. They need to be removed or severely restricted.

A town portal should take 4 seconds to cast and cost 1,000,000 gold.

Yes, I will buy Diablo 3 the instant it is available. No questions.

I want more new classes. Old classes with minor upgrades is annoying. Blizzard brought the Barbarian back simply to fill the tank role.

Also, LAN play and Battle.net are not mutually exclusive. Why do people portray this? Personally, I used both. As a result, I'll still buy the game, but why are people assuming that anyone who hates Battle.net must be a pirate? I know plenty of people who purchased the game but prefer LAN play always.

Removing LAN play will not reduce piracy. The game will still be pirated.

Removing LAN play will not reduce cheating. Closed Battle.net was a radically different architecture than LAN play servers were. In a LAN game, the "server" trusts the clients with data. On closed Battle.net, virtually all important information is stored server-side. Regardless, people found ways to break in. Packet-sniffing is a pretty straightforward method.

I had LAN parties with tons of my friends over the lifespan of Diablo 2. It is not the same experience as creating a private channel in Battle.net. Personally, I prefer LAN play over online play. With LAN play, I am immune to the Internet failing (which it does often in my area), my group never has lag (or lag spikes), and we can all use our single-player characters we worked so hard to build up. It was also a positive experience for the friends of mine who owned Diablo 2 but had no Internet access at home (yes, there are people in this world who either have no Internet or still have dial-up).

Blizzard is making the right choice by making Battle.net a much more inviting place. The changes they have announced make me feel better about playing with strangers online. I disagree with the decision to remove LAN play, but I'll live (given the changes to B.net). Accurate statistics about how many people actually use LAN play are virtually impossible to gather since it does not happen online. However, it is incredibly naive to assume that "no one plays over LAN" or "all LAN-lovers are cheaters/hackers/pirates/etc.". I've lived in several states and have always been able to locate Diabo 2 LAN parties; none of them ever condoned cheating. The reason many people believe that LAN players are hackers is the vocal group of hackers on the Internet who did use the LAN play to learn something about the multiplayer protocol. The rest of them were silent, just playing the game offline.