GamerZines: During a recent press event for Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, Bob Colayco talked openly about the controversy surrounding the lack of LAN support and why he believes adding more functionality to Battle.net is a worthwhile trade off for fans.
"LAN is not something that we are looking at because we think Battle.net is the future," Explained Blizzard's PR guru.
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All I want is a physical disc release of remastered D2 that doesn't require online check-ins.
I've lost complete interest. Too much FOMO with seasons as it is, now it's expansions? No thanks.
what fomo? everything gets reset each season and you start new characters unless you're playing on the regular servers and then you're already maxxed anway and just need to participate in the new season stuff.
i played only during launch and i found the ones in that battlepass to be absolute dogwater, the only ones that looked somewhat cool were the paid ones in the store and i wont bother with either. The game itself was just so hollow, there were no cool builds cause every synergy was just "x or y skills does more dmg or has this extra effect" almost no experimentation needed, couldnt give a rats ass about armor if the core of the game is boring af.
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Absolutely not. Battle.net is just a cheapo attempt at taking over Steam. Steam is still far superior in every way. The only games Battle.net get are those by Blizzard.
I remember a quote from a Blizz rep saying that they're aiming for battle.net to become the "social network for gaming". Again, sorry, but Steam kicks your ass pretty hard at that.
Really, all Battle.net ends up equating to in the end is more money for Activision/Blizzard. It's just greed. Kotick needs to die, and die soon. Someone hire an assassin, quick.
"However fans will be pleased that Battle.net will go through some improvements before Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty finally launches, with plenty of new functionality to be added in the future."
Lets hope they're talking about public chat rooms atLEAST.
Worst decision ever XD
OnLive is the future.
I think the new battle.net will be great - I just don't think lan play had to be axed to accomodate it. I know it's to block the hamachi players, but I don't like games that have single player components that are dependant on a server somewhere not shitting itself.
Battle.net has no chance when it comes to Steam.