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I don't get this reasoning either, why should LAN games between friends (who have done their own matchmaking and do not need any additional help or direction) be subject to Blizzard's idea of what is and isn't okay?
What the fuck are you blabbering about?
Have you tried playing SC on Bnet lately? I have, and it's fucking awful. With players as shitty as you or I, people online don't even play the real game; they just fuck with you. Sometimes they wall you in and never attack; they enjoy waiting around and berating you, forcing you to quit. It's impossible finding someone around your skill level; putting 'noobs only' in the game name is a fucking magnet for douchebags. I had a decent online record maybe 7 years ago but those days are over. I'm the best in my LAN group and it doesn't matter, I haven't won a game online in years.
Single player games and LAN games usually have people fucking off and having fun, but that's not possible with the new system, because there's a pressure to perform even there. There's nothing reasonable about that. It's bullshit.
Blizzard have mentioned the exact problem you're talking about before. Shit dude, you honestly think they haven't thought about these things before? You think you're smarter than all of Blizzard, having thought about LAN play for five whole fucking minutes?
IIRC they talked about having an option for turning off ratings in a game, so you can fuck around and it won't be recorded. You're just using Bnet for the match-making; what exactly is the disadvantage here? Yeah there are 0.01% of people who want to LAN without an internet connection, but you're not one of them so what the fuck do you care?
Besides, how many other recent games let you do standalone LAN? Have you played Counter-Strike lately? That's an *old* game, and fucking everything is recorded when you play it. Have you played COD4? This is the worst offender of them all. You can't even turn on all weapons in a LAN game; it's all tied to your account, and you unlock weapons and earn achievements even in offline LAN play, and they ban your cd-key if you use an unlock cheat EVEN IN OFFLINE PLAY. A few LAN parties ago we did it, and we had to jump through enormous hoops just to get a goddamn local server crack than unlocked everything. That was plenty enough for me to never buy a COD game. If you bought COD4 or Modern Warfare 2, you're a giant hypocrite. Blizzard's new Bnet is quite generous in comparison to that bullshit.