What do you mean? You can still play with your friends, just on b.net.God Blizzard Fails... first they screw wc3 with the virus... then they screw it eaven more changing Jass... and now no more play nights with friends ? That is like half the fun of the game.... HOPEFULLY the good people from Garena are going to support SCII and DII so that the average player is not screw.... WHAT ? No lan?! But that is how you start the GGC launcher ? ? ? ?
OK... can someone shoot me now ? Please....
What do you mean? You can still play with your friends, just on b.net.
I honestly don't see the problem with removing LAN, I liked\used it but its not that big of a problem just to use b.net instead.
You don't have to play with those types of people any more then you do on LAN. I didn't think of slow internet, as thats not what I've heard most people complain of. Maybe blizzard will make changes to b.net to help that, idk.my internet is 20mb/s, while my lan i 1Gb/s, I think that I will preffer to play my games on lan with lower risk of latency
And also, I preffer to play lan beacuse of all the annoying little kids that calls you a retard as soon as you get a high ping or do something that they think is wrong
It's going to be replaced by an offline Battle.net feature that they can't yet talk about. Read the original article and you'll see two developers wanted to talk about it but Rob Pardo stepped in and just said that a "LAN feature" didn't exist, clarifying later that it will be replaced by a Battle.net feature they can't talk about.
There will be LAN play, it will just be under a different name. Now stop freaking out over this!
So, no internet connection = no game.I imagine new LAN requires first authentication from Battle.net 2.0.
Somebody wanna bet how long time it takes for a pirated version of the game that allows playing without internet connection to be released?