gunsmoke on 2/7/2009 at 17:56
Quote Posted by nicked
But apart from the minority of people who don't have access to an internet connection for whatever reason, playing over the internet in the same room as someone is, from the player's point of view, identical. It's just like using a very, very long cable really.
That said, I really don't see how they benefit from leaving it out.
Except for the LAG. Try to keep up.
Matthew on 2/7/2009 at 18:02
Quote Posted by nicked
But apart from the minority of people who don't have access to an internet connection for whatever reason, playing over the internet in the same room as someone is, from the player's point of view, identical. It's just like using a very, very long cable really.
That said, I really don't see how they benefit from leaving it out.
Only really true for broadband connections, and faster ones at that. My little part of the world has about 100% broadband coverage, but plenty of places are still dial-up or slow broadband focussed (New Zealand being a particularly egregious example, I believe?).
Stitch on 2/7/2009 at 18:15
Pretty sure they're dropping LAN support because oh yeah IT IS NO LONGER 1998.
if they don't have 640 X 480 we are through
Dresden on 2/7/2009 at 18:24
Quote Posted by Stitch
Pretty sure they're dropping LAN support because oh yeah IT IS NO LONGER 1998.
if they don't have 640 X 480 we are through
Haha that's what I thought at first. The only real valid points are LAN Parties and tournaments. I wonder how the Korean televised tournament people like GOMTV.net will take this.
Nameless Voice on 2/7/2009 at 18:29
Also, trying to play networked games with someone else in the same house using the same ADSL router, because you can only forward the ports battle.net uses to one computer at a time.
Matthew on 2/7/2009 at 18:30
I suspect they could well release a workaround or tailored version for competition play to shore up that end of the market.
catbarf on 2/7/2009 at 18:37
Quote Posted by Nameless Voice
Also, trying to play networked games with someone else in the same house using the same ADSL router, because you can only forward the ports battle.net uses to one computer at a time.
My brother and I have been able to play Warcraft 3 on Battlenet in the same game. Only one of us can host at a time, however.
Nameless Voice on 2/7/2009 at 18:49
Quote Posted by catbarf
My brother and I have been able to play Warcraft 3 on Battlenet in the same game. Only one of us can host at a time, however.
Ah, right, you only need the ports forwarded to host, don't you?
nicked on 2/7/2009 at 18:53
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Except for the LAG. Try to keep up.
Right, and Blizzard are looking at 11 million WoW players. If even half of them have broadband, that's enough to make any other connection method completely irrelevant from a profit standpoint.
Xenith on 2/7/2009 at 19:13
WoW is an MMO, Starcraft is a strategy game. There's obviously no need for any other connection for an MMO and not only from a profit standpoint, but from a obvious-in-the-face point. A strategy game would benefit though from pretty much every standpoint from a LAN connection.
edit: The only reason they aren't including LAN is because they are fairly (more like uberly if that's even a word) sustained by the profit made from WoW, so they can be assholes just because they can.
