No LAN for Diablo III Too?

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I like how anyone on here who posts something about NOT pirating Starcraft 2 and Diablo III get automatic negative scores.

Seriously, read how many comments people are blatantly saying "I'm pirating these games now because I'm mad at blizzard!"

And now let the negative feedback commence of course...
 
[citation][nom]bildo123[/nom]Ya, ohwell...Talk is cheap, come release day you'll be there, waiting in line, gitty as a school girl.Also if you do pirate it, well, have fun in solo mode.[/citation]

Exactly.

Oh and look at that! he has negative feedback!

My point proven right there.
 
Oh stop acting tough, sure..... You say you aren't going to buy SC2 or D3, right..... sure..... I beleive you. Such an internet tough guy, all you cry babies will buy the game once you see how amazing it is. Stop pretending.
 
so does this mean battlenet is going to be better and prevent hacks and cheats? no more using stones of jordan for currency?
 
[citation][nom]fargom[/nom]Oh stop acting tough, sure..... You say you aren't going to buy SC2 or D3, right..... sure..... I beleive you. Such an internet tough guy, all you cry babies will buy the game once you see how amazing it is. Stop pretending.[/citation]

Finally...
 
[citation][nom]Toddosan[/nom]so does this mean battlenet is going to be better and prevent hacks and cheats? no more using stones of jordan for currency?[/citation]

I think Blizzard has more than shown they are capable of providing a good online environment. For the most part, WoW is safe from serious longterm hacks.

I'm sure if they are spending this much time and money to develop SC2 and D3, they will throw some money at Battle.net.

I suggest everyone waits to see how good the new battle.net will be before you all freak out and proclaim "SCREW U BLIZ NO $$$ FROM ME!!!!"

Grow up people.
 
This really sucks. When I go to a LAN party to play D2 or SC1 and we all hook up through the router, its not laggy, but if we were to take 5-8 people and hook them up through one internet connection based on a 5mg pipe, this is going to blow.

Blizzard, you had a good thing going with SC1, D1, D2, and WoW pre wotlk and TBC... please don't $&^ this up.
 
[citation][nom]paketep[/nom]No LAN, no sale. D3 or SC2.How the mighty have fallen.[/citation]
That comment was sadly true and left me feeling quite gloomy.

*sigh*

 
Errr this is kinda dumb if he doesn't agree that pirates will reverse engineer it. What will happen is if they can't do LAN, the pirates most definitely will emulate battle.net like I have seen them do for the original Starcraft game. Hell there are even illegal World of Warcraft servers out there and those aren't LAN either. Pretty dumb idea if you ask me, if people are going to pirate it they still will regardless of lan support. I know people who don't play games as multi player regardless.
 
Actually come to think of it, what they SHOULD do is have LAN available for registered users who sign up on battle.net with a valid key. And then just allow it to enable the LAN on their game that way. And anyone else doing LAN should have to do the same thing. I think that'd help out quite a bit with the legitimate user base who wants LAN. Maybe even force it to require an internet connection to play over local IP to reduce lag.
 
Anyone who say the wouldn't buy those two game cause of LAN is pretty stupid. You know you will end up buying it when it comes out because there isn't a game that is as good as Blizzard engine. So stop complaining crybabies.
 
Why would you not buy a game cuz of LAN? Lol its 2009, who doesn't use the internet to game anymore? Besides, D2 was infinitely more fun on bnet than it ever was SP/LAN. I could MAYBE see a point in fussing over no LAN in SC2, but even that will be better on bnet. Stop being silly folks, you're all gonna buy the games still.
 

You don't realizse Just about every copy of SC in China is pirated. They have pirate servers and services all over china and it's a *** ton of people ie Haofang ever heard of it blizz tried to sue them for their practices of supporting all the pirated copies of blizz games but you can't really win law-suits in china as a non Chinese business. Want to blame EA for being cacous when about half of the PC versions of COD4 online are pirated?

Blizzard has a legit reason and it's mostly involving the pirating is okay culture coming out of the Internet in china.
 
[citation][nom]nirvanabah[/nom]Why would you not buy a game cuz of LAN? Lol its 2009, who doesn't use the internet to game anymore? Besides, D2 was infinitely more fun on bnet than it ever was SP/LAN. I could MAYBE see a point in fussing over no LAN in SC2, but even that will be better on bnet. Stop being silly folks, you're all gonna buy the games still.[/citation]

Once again, negative feedback on a comment with a good point. These people are such babies lol.
 
im sorry, but all i see is peopel complaining are

too lazy to work to get money to enjoy a game

all i see are complaints, and making blizard look like evil for wanting to charge money for aproduct they make

come on ppl grow some balls

 
This is a PATHETIC decision from blizzard!
My concern is the unhealthy infulence form activision that aquired them 🙁
This sort of measure is on par with ea's drm! Sheer stupidity and greed!

Hope the reaction from the comunity is the same as against ea so that they reverse their decision and include LAN.
 
Are people really that stupid? Who cares if you have to play over B.net? The last LAN I went too, there were 12 people all sharing the crappy 5Mpbs line. During downtime between LAN games, 10 of us jumped onto WoW and all played fine.

This isn't some new dev on the block, it's Blizzard. If they know how to handle millions of people online in WoW, I'm sure they can handle the new B.net traffic.

The only area this effects are the larger scale LANs that don't have internet access. I do agree this sucks for them, but hey... that's life. I'm planning on buying the game and enjoying it offline and online. Good riddance to the losers who think playing a video game over LAN is some God given right... it will be less retarded without you on B.net anyway.

My Life for Aiur!
 
This development has downgraded Diablo III from a 100% buy to 40-60 in favor of not buying. No LAN = Fail. More importantly, not trusting customers = epic fail.
 
[citation][nom]GenKhan2[/nom]This development has downgraded Diablo III from a 100% buy to 40-60 in favor of not buying. No LAN = Fail. More importantly, not trusting customers = epic fail.[/citation]
Where do you get those Number from?? Don't you think they have done some research and know better that anybody here how this decision is going to affect the sales?
 
This is quite dissapointing, Starcraft II was one of my most anticipated new titles. But I wont be buying anything from Blizzard again. I could be wrong but the success of Starcraft was largely due to it's LAN capability. I use use 3G broadband here in SA and I couldn't be bothered with Battle.net PS WASTEOFTIME your maths is probably a bit suspect, but be that as it may, the 10 Million of you who buy a game regardless are still idiots who will part with their cash no matter what.
 
[citation][nom]caskachan[/nom]Before Valve released steam, hl+mods players used the warez pirated version to play on WON servers, but after they swtiched to steam, account system, and took down WON network, now every kid i know that had pirated hl+mods, actually bought the games to continue playing, so valve did the right thing to capitalize on their games, so blizard can do this as well, its 2000 fucking 9, internet is cheap and everywhere, and if you got a rig to play starcraft 2, you DO HAVE INTERNETlans with no internet = warez festlans with internet = warez fest + some legit gaming (due to Steam games etc)a lan with no internet is like goign to a party with no beer, get my drift? just cough up 1 more dolar for free internet at lan[/citation]
Except steam allows lan mode(for most valve games anyway) so your point is moot and crumbles easily.
 
[citation][nom]hemelskonijn[/nom]Playing a game seriously is an oxymoron at least! if it was serious its no longer a game and vice versa.Using the battle.net service they can authenticate your copy every time you play by forcing you to log in to battle.net when you boot up the game.However the better way to handle this would be forcing people to at least have a 56k modem and let a dedicated host as a starcraft lan server this way people would still log in to battle.net before they start playing the game but the actual server is a spare machine running local thus making it possible to run a lan game while still being able to authenticate.I am sure if you ask them they will answer you that it still wont be pirate proof even though nothing is as there will be many ghost battle.net servers soon after the release it wont be to hard to make a script that handles a load of authentications.[/citation]That was my point sonny jim.
 
All this means is that to be able to play LAN all those casual players for potentially DB3 and SC2 that would have baught the game for the weekends lan, will now go to the lan and play a hacked copy of the game on a hacked BN server, they wont bother to buy a valid copy because they cant do what they want with a valid copy. Sure the hardcore dedicated players of either title will still buy the game and still play over BN, but a large portion of their potential market is casual LAN players and they will lose all those sales.
Furthermore often on lans when playing mods like DOTA or any of the other multitude out there, we often apply a general cheat for everyone that may make the game a bit faster to get to the fun parts sooner. however when you play on BN you have this Big brother watching syndrome with people being banned when they try and do something like this...i can understand that this is neccessary if you try and maintain any credibility in global ranking systems, but i dont give a crap about some ranking i just play for fun and being always forced through some controll on BN is just sometimes too restrictive.
 
Such stupid comments lol... I don't remember the last time I used the LAN feature in Starcraft/Warcraft and NOBODY plays Diablo without battle.net except people with pirated copies. What's the point anyways, you miss out on all the online interaction. As for those who LAN, why can't you just play through battle.net? My buddies and I get together and we play through battle.net, not LAN, so that we can play other teams of people around the world.

Not everything is going to be free unfortunately, so I guess you guys just need to save up money and buy the game for a change. :) Upgrade your internet while you're at it, I mean... who hosts LAN parties without Internet connectivity???? Ha ha... seriously.
 
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