1. LAN parties at locations whee internet connections are ANY of slow, expensive, or require authentication. Case closed.

2. Laptops. Mobile. E.g. on a train, with internet connection dropping frequently. If LAN is disabled, it is impossible to play on the move.

3. As a matter of principle: why do I need an internet connection if I don’t want to play over the internet?

And a further point:

- Removing LAN because of authenticaion is bullshit, because it is possible to do a once-off online authentication to enable LAN from then on. Easy peasy. Blizzard are just being f*cktards.

Dustin Browder’s statement in this post is staggeringly condescending, characterising us as saying: “Please, I would like to break your game now because I want to play offline for some reason.”

WHY THE F*CK SHOULDN’T I PLAY OFFLINE? What gives Blizzard the right to break their own game for anyone who doesn’t want to play online all the time?

This is why no lan = no buy.

I wonder what other fun and silly mini challenges we’ll encounter that sort of ween us into multiplayer techniques. Does anyone remember that secret tower defense level in the wc3 tft campaign? The sillier, the better. Not that the lava thing was silly per se.

And the whole capturing the artefact with the giant zealot-type statues, and having additional units like the return of the firebat, and the lava, oh, amazing!