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StarCraft 2 Made the Right Choice – LAN Parties Suck & HD Multiplayer Gameplay Video

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StarCraft 2 Made the Right Choice – LAN Parties Suck & HD Multiplayer Gameplay Video. LAN parties are a thing of the past. No one really wants to drag their laptops or desktops around when they can play from the comfort of their own ultimate gaming station in their home close to snacks and everything else you need for a 48 hour gaming marathon. Screaming fast internet speeds are becoming the norm and soon the internet will be the platform for gaming not some networked computers.
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SirSyko - 123 days 3 hours ago
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I agree with this guy. Screw LAN.
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jacaranda - 122 days 20 hours ago
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Screaming internet speeds? Tell them to the slow internet that I,m having right now. If lan is a thing of the fast, then why there is still games include lan today like Demigod, COD4, COD5, CRYSIS, RA3.
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Polluted - 122 days 19 hours ago
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I rather like LAN play. One time I was skipping school up in the Yukon and it got so cold that my friend and I ducked into one of those LAN cafe places to escape the cold. We paid $5 each to play Quake 2 over the LAN for a couple of hours.

When our time was up we got up to leave and the manager came running out after us and asked us to stay because everyone was having an awesome time fragging. There's something infinitely more satisfying about fragging the guy sitting right next to you than someone thousands of miles away who you'll never see.
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dchalfont - 122 days 18 hours ago
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just because you have no friends to play over LAN with doesn't mean LAN sucks
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TheIneffableBob - 122 days 21 hours ago
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I think Blizzard will add LAN back in, or at least create a version for LAN gaming. There needs to be LAN if Blizzard wants SC2 to be played at LAN parties.
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FantasyStar - 122 days 20 hours ago
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I think the only way we'll get LAN back is if someone hacks it in. Then it's all downhill for Blizzard from there.
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theflyingfool - 122 days 21 hours ago
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3 - satire right
that article is a joke right, after all good highspeed isn't avaliable in a lot of the US, and i could be wrong but isn't blizzard a US company?
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Catmurderer - 122 days 21 hours ago
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"LAN Parties are a Thing of The Past"

Do South Korea's competitive gaming uses LAN or the internet for their competitions?

I think that longevity should be taken into account when considering using LAN or not. (I would have a system where you would have to be signed into bnet to play Starcraft 2 but you could use a LAN line if you wanted.)
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gamejediben - 122 days 20 hours ago
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Well phuck you, sir. Phuck you right up your arrogant ass. My internet access goes down CONSTANTLY and I will end up forfeiting matches on battle.net because of this. Not having LAN capability in a sequel to a game made famous by LAN is the epic failure of the ages and will be joked about for years to come. IMO, Blizzard lost its common sense when it merged with Activision...
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onlinemmo - 121 days 7 hours ago
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sounds like you need to move somewhere with better internet
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whatis - 122 days 20 hours ago
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I've been to two LANS this week and they were both awesome, punk.
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Panthers - 122 days 19 hours ago
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This game is looks sweet. I dont freakin care about lan. Just release it.
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Seph - 122 days 19 hours ago
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8 - this have to be a joke..
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jpod - 122 days 17 hours ago
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this guy doesn't know what he is talking about.
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ReTarDedFisHy - 122 days 15 hours ago
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one thing is clear:
this guy doesn't have any friends.

To experience playing your favorite game in the same room with your buddies is what LAN parties are all about. And who says there can't be snacks at LAN parties?
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jacaranda - 122 days 14 hours ago
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To see real people. That is the purpose of lan, a social gathering of gamers.
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karlowma - 122 days 14 hours ago
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Nothing compares to LAN multiplayer!!! This "article" is unsupported opinion and pointless blather. Anyone who has gamed w/ a friend sitting next to them knows this is infinitely more fun than playing on Live or Steam or PSN with a headset strapped to your face. If the author of the editorial was in my area, I'd invite him over out of pity.
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Dead_Cell - 122 days 14 hours ago
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12 - Playing with friends beats some guy millions of miles away.
Hey,even when I'm playing with friends online it isn't the same.
I much prefer being sat in a room with a group of friends shooting the crap out of each other until someone does the over-exaggerated "IM NUT PLAYING ANYMOAR" whilst wearing his rage face and spaz throwing the controller.
Always gets a few laughs.
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jpod - 122 days 13 hours ago
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Also playing with friends is good for trash talking each other, until one of you gets mad.
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ryan461 - 122 days 10 hours ago
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granted you can do multiplayer play instead. But it's fun to sit in one room and play while you can chat with each other. I know there's ventrilo and stuff now. But it's just not the same.
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Pandamobile - 122 days 9 hours ago
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LAN is an experience separate of multiplayer.

It's so much more fun when you're playing with 15 of your friends in one room where they're close enough to throw stuff at when they kill you a few too many times.
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Mystery - 122 days 3 hours ago
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The LAN feature for Starcraft 2 is much more important than simply for LAN parties or social gaming. As most professional gamers and fans know, Starcraft is the biggest e-sport in the world. South Korea has 2 pro-leagues and television stations dedicated to the game. There are Korean and English casted events that are watched the world over. These professionals play on a LAN for one particular reason -- latency. Super fast internet may exist, but latency will still exist, even in these connections. There are things you can do on a LAN that simply aren't possible on battle.net, and the professionals know this. Perhaps Blizzard has some crazy idea of allowing local play through battle.net, or selling a proprietary LAN server software of some sorts, but if they don't allow low-latency play locally, the professional sport will suffer.
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111111 - 121 days 11 hours ago
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LAN or i wont buy it. Serious.
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