Bad news for gamers. Starcraft 2, Blizzard’s much anticipated sequel to one of the best games ever, will not have LAN support. Apparently the designers felt that the only way to fight piracy was to take this drastic measure. Rob Pardo of Blizzard said, ““we don’t have any plans to support LAN, we will not support it.” With these new developments, the only multiplayer gaming available will be on Battle.net.

This move makes sense, as people who pirate the game will be unable to play on Battle.net, it will most likely just anger different gaming groups who will pirate the game en masse to “stick it” to Blizzard and we all know a workaround will eventually come around. As an avid LANer, this move saddens me. I don’t enjoy playing games online. Getting a bunch of computers together to play games and have a LAN party is a much more social activity than some people might think. Whatever happens, this game is still going to be awesome!