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The Deplorable State of Commercial Gaming

July 29, 2010 – 21:15

I’m really quite angry right now: half at Blizzard, and half at myself because I knew that I was going to get something like this and gave them my money anyway. Starcraft II doesn’t support LAN play. This is not just a case of needing to be online and authenticated with Battle.net to fire up [...]

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Starcraft II, LANs and FOSS

August 24, 2009 – 20:18

By now it’s common knowledge amongst Starcraft fans awaiting the release of Starcraft II that offline LAN support has been officially dropped from the game, citing warm fuzzy reasons like better-integrated community interaction or something which equally fails to hide the fact that they’re worried about things like Hamachi and piracy at LANs causing them [...]

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