Posted by Brandon *Sandman* Bell<http://firingsquad.com/authors/author_profile.asp?author_id=1>on Monday June 29, 2009 - 01:08 PM
(*Post a comment*<http://firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=21813#commentform> ) *ยป StarCraft II lacks LAN support*In a wide ranging interview posted on IncGamers<http://www.incgamers.com/Interviews/190/StarCraftIIDevelopersInterviewed>, Blizzard's Rob Pardo confirmed that *Blizzard has no plans to support StarCraft II gaming over LAN*. The game's only multiplayer component will be Blizzard's battle.net service. In a follow-up interview<http://www.incgamers.com/News/17129/NoLANInStarCraftIIConfirmed?gr_i_ni>Pardo says that LAN isn't supported *"because of the planned technology to be incorporated into Battle.net"*. In a surprising move, Pardo also confirmed Blizzard has no plans to port StarCraft II over to consoles: *"In our opinion we just don't feel like we will deliver the type of RTS game that we've been creating [on consoles]." * *"We have tried in the past, we actually tried the original StarCraft on Nintendo 64. It works, it's playable, it's just such a different playability gameplay experience than on PC and we really don't want to have it be that different."* Kudos to Blizzard for bucking the trend of porting popular PC franchises to consoles in a quick cash grab. *(Spotted on Blues News<http://bluesnews.com/> )* -- Q George Burns <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_burns.html> - "I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age."
