Blizzard Planning Pseudo-LAN Support for StarCraft 2, Diablo 3 to Follow Suit

Thx for posting this, I hadn't heard of this until now. I can happily say that I'm not surprised by this, as this kind of hybrid-solution was very much hinted at when we first heard about there being no LAN in SC2. All those petitions might have swayed the developers - sure, but I honestly believe that they all along intended to allow LAN-bandwidth multiplayer in SC2, whilst maintaining connection with Battle.net.

Purists may argue that you can't have old school-basement LANs over at your friend's house anymore because the new Battle.net is like MySpace and what if the router goes down in the middle of a game, etc..... I say that you still can, only in a different way. Pseudo-LAN just might rock harder than the old solution we are used to, but it needs to be embraced and not discarded just because it's unfamiliar. The old feeling of peering over a gosu friend's shoulder while he ownz n00bs (or, if you're better at Starcraft than me, be that friend yourself) will still be possible with SC2. GG to that,

 

They had no real choose in the matter, if they withheld any kind of LAN support it would have been provided in full by third-parties outside their control, but with this action retain some control with pseudo-LAN support.  The former will still happen regardless of this action.

I am still curious if Starcraft 2 will have a non-configurable high latency floor or dynamic/configurable.