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Agreed

gnesterenko 7th Jul 2009

I think the only people that are angry about this are the ones that were going to pirate it just for LAN play in the first place. For everyone else its sign on to b-net, make a private game, and there's your LAN party right there, except you actually get some ranking and achievements for it and whatnot. Blizz is keeping this in and I guarentee you that SC2 will make them millions and millions of dollars despite the 'outcry' over no LAN. I think that what folks don't realize is that the days of Blizzard catering exclusively to the the super-******** gamers (the folks likely to actually have said LAN parties) has been gone once they started tweaking WoW with the expenasions. Its an industry wide trend and you are going to see more and more hard-core gamer oriented aspects being dropped from games.

I, for one, am all for it. As a hard-core gamer of days past, I can personally atest to how devstating this 'hobby' is to ones social life. Since I quit MMOs, I've gotten in shape, reconnected with my family and friends, have advances significantly in the professional field, and overall things are better. I realize that there are many out there that can balance these things, but I simply was not one of them and games like WoW have ruined lives for people like myself. A trend away from systems that bait hard-core gaming behavior is probably the best thing that can happen for the industry. There is a difference between being a ******** gamer by choice and having it imposed on you (such as if you wanted to see any end-game content of WoW). If I pay for a game, I expect to be able to experience all aspects of it without dedicating 6hours a day to it.

Sorry for getting off topic there at the end and thanks for reading if you got this far.

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