Starcraft II Will Have No LAN Support, No Chance Coming To Console

June 29, 2009 by Chapree

Starcraft II

Last week, Blizzard invited a number of Starcraft fansites to their HQ for a sneak preview of Starcraft II’s latest multiplayer build. While the overall reports stated that the game are doing great, one tiny bummer for network multiplayer folks out there - the game will have no LAN support, as stated in an interview by IncGamers with the game’s developers and was also confirmed by Team Liquid.

This piece of news however has been rumored for quite a while - since March this year. With that confirmation, Battle.net - which will contain a number of new features that Blizzard was not able to discuss yet, is the only multiplayer mode available for SCII later on.

Meanwhile, in the same interview with IncGamers, Blizzard’s Vice President of Game Design Rob Pardo also mentioned that SCII will not appear on consoles. “Zero percent” - said the Blizzard rep. The given reason was:

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.

Sorry consoles folks, we got to agree with Pardo here.