Aja on 2/7/2009 at 19:17
ain't no party like an SC par-tay
june gloom on 2/7/2009 at 19:32
God I love it when I wake up and this is the first thing I see when I log into ttlg.
My hatred for Blizzard/Starhammer 40craft aside... No LAN play? Seriously? No matter how fast internet has gotten, LAN play is still the lag-free option when you have a bunch of guys in a single room. This plus the fact that they're basically milking the 3-campaigns thing...
It's like they know their fans are going to buy it anyway. Sooner or later, though, Blizzard's going to do something that pisses even their most die-hard fans off. Blizzard hasn't given one shit about their fans since they became WoW Maintenance Corporation.
Matthew on 2/7/2009 at 19:41
As long as it keeps them all away from LOTRO, I don't care. :p
Briareos H on 2/7/2009 at 19:52
It's not impossible that they designed a system in which every player has to be logged into battle.net yet the game data itself is exchanged within a lan.
It's hard to believe that they are expecting every gamer party out there to have a broadband access. Especially since the addictive and low-spec nature of the blizzar-strike type of games shapes well towards emerging countries.
Pidesco on 2/7/2009 at 20:30
Imagine if Capcom released a Street Fighter game which only allowed you to play against your friends over the internet.
catbarf on 2/7/2009 at 20:44
Quote Posted by dethtoll
My hatred for Blizzard/Starhammer 40craft aside...
+1
Quote Posted by dethtoll
It's like they know their fans are going to buy it anyway. Sooner or later, though, Blizzard's going to do something that pisses even their most die-hard fans off. Blizzard hasn't given one shit about their fans since they became WoW Maintenance Corporation.
Well, it's worked for Microsoft since Halo. I really doubt that Blizzard's going to learn, and I fully expect D3 to be worse.
ZymeAddict on 2/7/2009 at 21:12
Quote Posted by dethtoll
It's like they know their fans are going to buy it anyway. Sooner or later, though, Blizzard's going to do something that pisses even their most die-hard fans off. Blizzard hasn't given one shit about their fans since they became WoW Maintenance Corporation.
Yes, you think they would have learned something from the backlash against Sony...
EvaUnit02 on 2/7/2009 at 21:21
Pssst Catbarf
Halo games still have LAN support.
(I get that your point really was something along the lines of Microsoft caring less and less about PC gaming as time went by. But LAN play is exactly what made the Xbox platform popular in the first place, Halo 1 LAN parties were a big deal. Their online service Xbox Live didn't launch until like a year after the console launch.)
Quote Posted by Matthew
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?).
Indeed, the NZ broadband infrastructure is like 5 years behind the rest of the Western world. When the government unbundled the copper phone line local loop, the only other nation on Earth who hadn't done so was Mexico.
catbarf on 2/7/2009 at 23:20
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
Pssst Catbarf
Halo games still have LAN support.
(I get that your point really was something along the lines of Microsoft caring less and less about PC gaming as time went by. But LAN play is exactly what made the Xbox platform popular in the first place, Halo 1 LAN parties were a big deal. Their online service Xbox Live didn't launch until like a year after the console launch.)
I meant that Blizzard could charge $60 per copy plus a monthly fee for online play and have only 1 campaign and nonexistent PC support and they'll STILL get shittons of money because of the legions of slavering fans, and no matter how bad it is those fans (plus the entire population of S. Korea) will remain just as fanatically loyal. Much like Microsoft and all the Halo sequels.
PigLick on 3/7/2009 at 01:47
I gotta go out on a nerd limb here and say that LAN's are the best and only way to play multiplayer pc games, unless you dont have any nerdy-minded mates that is. I have a group of 4 friends who get together about once a month for a LAN bash and bbq, we were kinda looking forward to SC2. Oh well it always ends up with people running around with underpants on their head, and then someone playing the same fucking dream theatre song adozen times in a row until I fucking threaten to piss on his speakers shut that damn shit up already
