[newzhunter]

Recently Blizzard revealed that StarCraft II will not offer LAN support when the first installment hits the market by the end of the year. Although the company cited piracy and security problems, Blizzard's overall plan is to make Battle.net the multiplayer destination for all of its games. With that said, the news that Diablo III may not offer LAN support should not be quite as shocking. In fact, gamers should count on Blizzard not supporting LAN from now on.

Strangely enough, the comments made by Blizzard Community Manager "Bashiok" in regards to LAN support were deleted from the Blizzard forums. However, this website managed to grab the discussion before mysterious forces magically eradicated the topic. His response was actually sparked by one commenter complaining that removing LAN support only hurts legitimate buyers. After all, pirates will take the time to reverse engineer the game and enable LAN support anyway. Bashiok didn't seem to agree.

No LAN for Diablo III Too? - Tom's Hardware

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[techniqu]

100% positive that diablo III will not have lan. this is what happens when games start to cost tens of millions of dollars: consumers get shafted to please the investors.

[eventer]

Blizzard sux......enough said

[quahfamili]

Well i think bnet is good enough. and blizzard make good games.. imho

[lennardseah]

blame the cheapos who dunt buy original

[medallion]

Not surprised since they have alrdy done it to Starcraft 2

[quahfamili]

Originally Posted by lennardseah

blame the cheapos who dunt buy original

totally agree with you although i miss hosting game n play with friend but you can always do that in bnet and i think bnet did a good job as in server wise.. not much lag

[dr_disciple]

Can't help to agree with that....

Originally Posted by lennardseah

blame the cheapos who dunt buy original

[longsiew]

lol...be it got LAN or not........

Diablo III is in my die die must buy list. I waited till neck long liao le=(

[shmuckerz]

still no clues on when its coming out? :S
meh as long as bnet can handle it i guess its alright..

[無名]

guess end of e yr?

[Niceone]

Of course Diablo III will be pirated just as much with LAN or without. Piracy is just good excuse to drop features.

[kohroyston]

Originally Posted by eventer

Blizzard sux......enough said

Go make one ?

[haylui]

Originally Posted by lennardseah

blame the cheapos who dunt buy original

some countries their GDP and currencies are low
how to buy a original game while the game cost 1/10 of your salary ?

[night87]

actually, D3 no LAN i m still OK, used to play Bnet ladder etc ..

BUT STARCRAFT II NO LAN SUPPORT IS FREAKING BULLSHIT