Blizzard

The petitions have been passed around and signed by hundreds of thousands of gamers that are upset by the previous announcement of no LAN support for StarCraft II. While Blizzard was standing by the company line of supporting Battle.net, it seems that Greg Canessa has stated that they are now working on a LAN-like solution.

Speaking to Shacknews, Canessa said, “We are working on solutions with regard to things we can do to maintain connectivity to Battle.net in some way, but also provide a great quality connection between players.”

Asked whether the solution might include a pseudo-LAN connection,where the game might check for Battle.net authentication first, the developer replied, “Something like that… Maintaining a connection with Battle.net, I don’t know if it’s once or periodically, but then also having a peer-to-peer connection between players to facilitate a very low-ping, high-bandwidth connection.. those are the things that we’re working on.”