Report: Full Copies of Starcraft 2 in the Wild

Speaking Czech you say? That's why those 10 Russian spies were in the US!!!

Good one!

If pirates found a way to release it, I honestly wouldn't be surprised...it isn't the first time they've done it.

Boycott Blizzard - they really pissed my off with this no lan junk. and now this activation requirements. I really hate to say it, but thank you for crackers...

"will pirates find a way around this limitation?"
Good one...

gosh i honestly freaking hate it to see the so called "hackers" or "pirates" giving the god of PC gaming developer a reason to quit developing for PC...

"will pirates find a way around this limitation, and make copies available for download through torrent sites?"


Answer: Yes. Expect "Skidrow" to be in the headlines over the weekend, again lol.

Hell, make em buy it.

Your "god" has abandoned what separates PC from the consoles with this release.. I do not like piracy but I would say that i dislike undeserving titles more. Losing LAN play is a killer. Perhaps some of these "hackers" can fix the game to support LAN play.

What are you on dude? You don't need LAN support when you can host private games on b-net. You can still have a LAN party with your friends in the same room, you simply host the game centrally on b-net rather than one of your PCs. Unless you live in Alaska or Nigeria you should have a decent enough net connection to run an *R T S* for gods sake. I used to play COH with randoms from Russia and I am in Australia and hardly ever had lag. 4 dudes in the same room connected to a USA b-net server is going to be SWEET.

Online activation during install a problem? Your OS requires online activation, get with the program. Its common. It takes 1 click. If your net connection cant handle that then you have bigger issues.

What are you on dial up or something? Whinging for whinging sake?

@crus_russ

You sir are an idiot...

Im a Marine, and would like to have LAN support due to the fact I dont have an internet connection when im deployed.

It is not my god... In regard to LAN, yes it is bad but on the other hand, they are giving the game free to people with active account... isnt that a loyalty gesture enough?

Further, any constructive complaint about LAN should be sent to them constructively rather than simply pirate the game as a revenge.

MW2 was a different case, their gesture was just offensive toward PC community.

Well the pirates have already made the beta workable to the public for months now, so of course a installation delay would be no problem for them to fix.

They wont be a true PC god until they support Linux as well (admirable effort always appealing to Macs though (just go one step further!)) (wine doesn't count, annoying as hell to get any game running with it). Also the lack of Lan really is annoying (regular internet outages in my area, play with my roommates most of the time anyway).

Teen retards... their parents pays them Internet and they think everywhere in the world you can have easily? I am the host of several reputable Lan partys in my area and trust me, it's a big problem to have a stable/fast internet to a specific place to accomodate 30+ people.

Even better, when guys in the army, while deployed, wants to pley, they are FU. Games that constently need the Net only to play is stupid. I know for one, won't buy it, and I'm not a sheep follower.

Also, a lot of free Wifi hot spots accross the world are heavily throtled/blocked so you most of the time, won't be able to play while on the go with a laptop.

Shame on Activ..*Clears throat*..Bnet­.

The argument about deployed soliders is a very cherry picked example. They probably make up less than 0.0001% of gamers.

In terms of not being able to support 30 people on your internet connection. I work in an office with 30 people and we share a business plan ADSL2+ and it runs flawlessly. Games dont require much bandwidth, just low latency for low lag.

wiping out zergs rather then insurgents....

now i see where we going wrong in Iraq and Afghanistan

@crus_russ
"The argument about deployed soliders is a very cherry picked example."

Screw you, that example IS my fellow service members and I. Almost all Jr service members play games in their off time, that is not a small market.

It will be cracked before release, no doubt. But Activision just might have something up their sleeves, I fear.

Enough is enough.. I'm tired of all those people whining "Boycott XX - he has copy protection".

From ALL game companies, Blizzard is the most dedicated to its customers. Of course they have to put some copy-protection scheme on their software, or else by now the Czech guy and all his friends would have finished the 'Wings of Liberty' maps and would whine on some forum about having to wait for 1 year for the next release.

Blizzard will give free of charge Battle.net access, the game will be playable off-line etc. Generally Blizzard reacted on most of user's feedback and protests.

So, thumbs up, and if you don't want to play SC2, well, one less player on Battle.net - nobody will notice it

Given the typical problem with LAN support. I'm still buying the game, and in reality i already have the collectors edition fully paid off, as well as the marine stand-up board paid off haha. I look forward to it even if it doesn't have LAN support, I'm sure with enough support behind it they could easily patch it possibly. I'm no blizzard employee but i love blizzards games, i own all of them and have much respect for what the company has done since the beginning. The only thing i wish was for them to break away from Activision. Most likely won't ever happen. 18 days left before SC2!!!! I'm excited, not because of the no LAN support but because of the possibilities with the Map Editor =D

ZERGs eat puppies!!!!!!!

LAN support in a game that help shaped the entire LAN party community is sorely needed. I would have purchased 2 copies of SC, one for me and my son, but there's no reason now because there's no LAN support and he's not getting a battle.net account.

Also, what about all those Koreans? Thousands of them go to a cafe and play SC over a LAN. Does Blizzard really think they are all going to play on bnet?

Whomever thinks taking LAN out is ok, doesn't really get why everyone is complaining. They probably have never been invited nor attended a LAN party so they can stfu.

In the end, someone will provide a bnet server hack that will allow local play, then it will all be free...

I completely agree. Most of the time I play RTSs is when I get together with a bunch of friends for a LAN game. I hardly ever play online, its just not as much fun when you're not in the same room. I just don't understand why they had to take it out. The game will be hacked to add LAN support anyways.

I want eeeeeeeeeet.

Teo why I think "boycotting" is going overboard. The no lan is stupid. It does nothing against pirates..

And to the person who say deployed soldiers is a cherry picked example. I beg to differ there are plenty of soldiers over here. So it's not like it's just a handful.

And it's just not lower enlisted, but plenty of higher ups play also.

To zerg wtf do you think we do out here all the time.. There is downtime, and were I'm at not to much to do. Hell we don't even have a gym nearby yet.

I'm pretty sure he was joking.

Call me deprived, but i never played any Blizzard games. I was possibly going to buy this one, but i am a firm believer of LAN support, when it is patched to support LAN play I may change my decision. But my dollar won't really matter by then.

I dont meant to offend any soldiers saying it is a cherry picked example. However, the fact that a lot of games are moving AWAY from LAN support towards online-always based support IMPLIES game developers BELIEVE the market is very small. Most people have internet access full stop and this is the market they are supporting.

No need to give me thumbs down for stating an obvious, albeit unpopular fact.

If it means so much to you, dont buy the game and when Blizzard notices all the missed sales they will add back in Lan support for those without internet access. /unlikely.

Honestly blizzard might of cared for it's customers 7-8 years ago. but when WoW released that care quickly disappeared. Now it's just about money money money. now they release a game into 3 seperate sections so they can charge you 3 times the normal amount and well their greed will be there downfall. So all you die-hard fans who want to see you blizzard in the light of 10 years before can spend $150 dollars on a single game, me I'll wait for the next great game. and there are plenty of them.