Blizzard Angered Hitler With No Starcraft 2 Lan Play
July 27, 2009 by Ruibo
This is to no surprise but I’ve expected this to have been made much earlier. The famous Hitler memes at it with Blizzard’s no lan for Starcraft 2. It’s a good thing I don’t understand German, otherwise these Hitler skits probably wouldn’t be as funny. This is by far one of the best ones so far, not just in humor but in advocacy.
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What movie is the clip from?
Der Untergang.
toller Film! Fantastich!
(Downfall)
watch it.
great movie the actual movie it’s even better if you know Deutsch. Anyways ya it was pretty shitty that Ghost got cancelled cause of stupid WoW that money guzzling mmorpg. That and even Diablo 3 has more people working on it than SC2 considering SC2 was in production first. DAMN YOU BLIZZARD!!!
I’d honestly prefer that more people work on Diablo 3 than Starcraft 2. Being the Diablo fan I am, I’m nervous enough as it is that Blizzard could fuck up Diablo 3, you’ve seen how huge of an uproar the first footage made? How it looked too WoW’ish, how there was too many colors, wasn’t dark and gritty enough, the fanbase was PISSED. Not only that, but they actually re-used textures and objects found in WoW in Diablo 3. Only thing I can conclude unless they fix it, is Blizzard got lazy and incompetent with their games since of the Cash flow coming in.
The cash and greed that ruins companies, it happened to Nintendo, EA?… Activision too now, and of course Blizzard, since of the Monthly subscriptions from WoW.
If Blizzrd gets away with having no lan support for starcraft 2 then im sorry to say that no future blizzard games will have LAN capability.
It seems like Starcraft 2 has been delayed till mid 2010 now and i can just guess that its due to the new WOW expansion.
Well, I don’t really much care for LAN, I don’t go to LAN parties nor personally find a need for it since I only play on Battle.net and the Single Player, however, I DO know that MANNNNY do play LAN, so it’s a huge mistake, hence why this is an actual ‘News Event’, Also the fact that there’s only One campaign, while even the original Starcraft and Expansion had ‘3′ for each race…..It’s troubling.
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pfft, no.
No, I understand some german (he’s talking about losing the war). It’s still funny.
If you knew German or anything about Hitler, you would know that he never would talk about Germany losing the war becuase despite everything he would say he was winning the war and it would be over in no time. You don’t know german. He was pissed becuase his higer ranking officers let key cities fall into the Russians, on approach to Berlin.
Pretty much spot on to how I feel!
This is totally how I felt when I heard about the compaigns being released separately. I also know most people who I played SC1 with didn’t even play it on Battle.net. Also it looks like they turned zerglings into locusts… freaking grasshoppers. Whhhhhhyyy blizzard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This wouldn’t be a problem if you didn’t purchase proprietary software that relied on proprietary services.
@JoeK:
Wait, wait, what are you suggesting with that comment, then? That we purchase OPEN SOURCE software that relies on OPEN SOURCE licensing so that we pay for something that the creators obtained for FREE? LOL!
Ever heard of the Linksys backlash?
Please. The day I stop purchasing proprietary software in the video game industry is the day that open source video games becomes a reality from a player’s perspective (I’m not talking about the countless open source libs and engines for MAKING games).
Very funny!
Exactly the phases I went through.
1) Couldn’t wait for SC2, looks awesome!
2) The game split into 3. OK, moderate stumble here. I guess I can live with that.
3) No LAN play….WTF!!!!
4) Posted on various forums, not buying it. Will play a free hacked LAN version.
5) Emailed Blizzard what a lousy decision it is and told them I am moving on. Will never look at a Blizzard game again. And their name is $hit.
Thank you for letting me post.
Davemon
best nerdrage vid I’ve seen, good job fella
This is just a dumb move by blizzard in order to stop people from piriting there game but to be honest 1,000,000 downloads from torrents / usenet does not mean 1,000,000 lost sales the video game industry needs to relise this.
If anything back in the day when i was at uni when we threw LAN partys we had no internet connection it would be 20-25 of us stuck in a house with just 1 hub, we had no internet connection so we would share our keys around for various games for LAN play, if we liked the game and kept playing it we would go and buy it, it was that simple.
This was the way i was introduced into SC1 and Warcraft games, played it over LAN at a LAN party liked it so i went out and bought it.
I can only think that by disabling LAN play they are only hurting the paying consumers there more than likley will be a LAN hack availible shortly after release anyway.
Blizz expects might just want people to make a lan hack anyways because they turned into lazy bastards who don’t want to do it because someone else can do for them.
No, the starcraft 2 team didn’t turn into lazy bastards, they’re on an incredibly tight scheduel and blizzard won’t even throw them a bone because of goddamn WOW.
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Then go buy it – well, whenever it finally makes it on to a shelf…
The rest of us wont, guess your opinion just doesn’t matter very much huh?
Just go back to playing pokemon.
go fucking die anon. LAN is critical to ANY PC game.
Hope I’m not the only one that though of this when they saw it but… is that Maxwell Smart?… 8^)
So no more Hamachi or Garena for Starcraft 2 ?
I guess we are just gonna have to do private battle.net servers. That sucks
Greedy blizzard.
Look, I have nothing against Blizzard or any other company making a profit. Supply and demand and all that. I DO think splitting SC2 is gouging. That is their choice.
No LAN play is also their choice too. But Blizzard is making a fundamental mistake. They think that no LAN play and being forced to use BNET2 will cut piracy. But they are wrong with the no LAN decision. They will lose hundreds of thousands if not millions of purchases AND have ignited a huge demand for a pirated version of SC2.
Also with this choice, they have HUGELY hurt their reputation, affecting ALL their products.
Davemon
I agree, copy protection and DRM will be broken. (always)
The battle against piracy starts and ends in peoples minds.
But as a paying consumer (yes me!) I get more than a little grumpy when I have to jump through online activation hoops every time I reinstall my operating system, add cards etc. (Thanks M$)
It’s not the way the way to go – I am hoping that Blizzard loses enough money to scare the rest of the industry into treating their paying customers with respect.
as for some monthly subscription service? get stuffed… it’s FREE for how long?
damn…i very dissappointed… stupid blizzard…I BEEN COLLECTING UR GAMES AND NOW IS NO MORE!!
cannot lan ??WTF?NO lan game for a strategy?no lan party?
play battlenet2??? my god..i sure will have some delay because MY COUNTRY DONT HAVE HIGH INTERNET SPEED LIKE YOU GUYS!!! DAMN!!!
MALAYSIA INTERNET SPEED TERRIBLE SLOW!! DONT BLIZZARD EVER THINK OF CONSUMER FOR OTHER COUNTRY>?????
sorry for my english and my capital words…i jst expressing my anger..seriously ANGRY FACE D:<
BLIZZARD SUCKS ASS!
Nabijem ih na kurac!
Good vid btw.
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Joe piracy is a problem for all platforms (albeit alot worse on the PC) but the PS3 wouldn’t even exist if it wasnt for the “worthless slobs” as you call them. The PS3 is basically just a high-end pc connected to a TV anyway. Also Blizzard has been PC-exclusive from the get go so I seriously doubt they will change that now. Finaly are you really dissing PC-gamers on here? Starcraft is pretty much the holy grail for RTS gamers so take your console bullshit elsewhere.
The video was a bit fun at times but I agree with some of the other comments that this clip is getting rather old by now.
Smooth JoeCucan, real smooth
How are these games made in the first place? on a PS3?
Those worthless slobs are the next generation of programmers… Would you like to buy a clue.
Take the time to think before you shoot off your mouth.
There will PC’s long after the last PS3 mate, just the same as every dated console before it.
intelligent person………..
So, when did Blizzard turn into EA?
Right about when they were bought out.
I seriously hope Blizzard sees the outcry for LAN and rethinks their decision before launch.
LAN parties and Starcraft are two things I hold dear in my geekdom. DONT SPLIT THEM UP!
Here’s hoping it’s just all part of the marketing ploy to get interest and the industry talking about the game.
If anything was going to push up piracy it’s removing LAN (it’s where we all started all those years ago).
I’ll bet the genius who thought this would be a good idea will be out on the street as soon as the no LAN patch and torrent figures pour in.
It’s a shame to see Blizzard treat the true paying fans like this…
I think they are serious.
I also think there was already plenty of buzz about SC2.
I searched a little bit. Was looking for some Blizzard offices near me to lob a brick through, wrapped with a note about having LAN play for Sc2. Nothing near me unfortunately.
Davemon
is this how they treat their loyal customers?
no LAN support? after all hyped-up during this year.
all right then, just don’t go complaining if SC2 ended up like SPORE. i don’t like wasting my hard-earned cash on something that won’t satisfy me.
I can’t believe that they are actually removing or shall i rather say not including LAN in SC2. LAN is what made the original SC popular in the first place.
Im 31 yrs old and me and my brothers still lan the original SC when ever we get a chance…..Blizzard will be loosing a big portion of their fan base if they leave LAN out.
This is from wikipedia “StarCraft was released internationally on 31 March 1998 and became the best-selling PC game for that year, selling over 1.5 million copies worldwide.[73] In the next decade, StarCraft sold over 9.5 million copies across the globe, with 4.5 million of these being sold in South Korea.[74] Since the initial release of StarCraft, Blizzard Entertainment reported that its Battle.net online multiplayer service grew by 800 percent.[75] StarCraft remains one of the most popular online games in the world.[76][77]”
So they want to cut back on piracy…did piracy of the original SC not help to make it one of the most popular games in the world? Im not saying that piracy is right but i am sure that it helped to distrute and advertise the game to thousands of gamers that eventually bought the game. i mean 9.5 million copies sold world wide….
I heard that you now will need to buy 2 add-ons to be able to play the 3 races in 3 diffirent campaigns. I will not be surprised if Blizzard is going to charge if you want to play online…
This whole setup stinks…greed is behind this. The new SC2 game looks awsome but i will have to see i will buy it. Without LAN whats the point.
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LAN…Local Area Network. If they say no LAN support, that pretty much sounds like all the data stream is through BNET, not locally.
Some people people don’t have high speed internet where they live. I can only hope your insensitive dark ages comment will bring you a lot of bad luck.
Davemon
LAN means LAN, not some nerfed marketing guru’s idea of network play.
Don’t bother with your criticisms, it’s not the place for them.
We are genuinely disappointed that a once great company has turned their backs on fans who made the game the success it was.
and since you don’t have any idea what Blizzard is or isn’t going to do.. why don’t you just wait to disappointed at Blizzcon like everyone else (yet another apology) “sorry we can’t male starcraft 2 – we are too busy making diablo and WOW and can’t manage to produce a title we said we would two years ago.
Pathetic…
Arghhhhhh Blizzard I’m still waiting for them to consider a making a stand alone Dota game, based on the warcraft mod.
A game like that already exists.
League of Legends: Clash of Fates
Your welcome?
Haha love it.
p.s blizzard can suck my dick!
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I agree with you.
People overreact a lot, but that’s the only thing you can expect when most people can’t think outside the box, or irrationally when angered by small and miniscule things, it’s not that Blizzard is lazy (Though I will still question the horrible decisions which in term, ‘look like’ extreme laziness with Diablo 3)
In regards to Starcraft 2 and the LAN, it’s a business decision. They probably had a big discussion with the staff, wondering and questioning what is the best move to make, people have to stop and think that Blizzard took their fanbases ‘Needs’ into consideration, obviously. However, you can’t really say Blizzard is desperate for money to the degree where a game being pirated would hurt it, it could slightly be greed, I highly doubt Blizzard is in any situation of desperateness or ‘Worry’ for their income due to the mass amounts of money they obviously get through WoW subscription fees.
Not as many people would pirate Starcraft 2 because a lot of people would feel it deserves their money, and they’d want to Own it, and for sentimental value. Like, me for instance? Nothing will stop me from buying Diablo 3 because I loved Diablo 2 way too much. Only Jews will pirate the game whether they feel it’s a great game or Blizzard earned the money or not.
LAN does not equal Piracy
It might be a business decision but it doesn’t make it the RIGHT business decision.
Starcraft was never a MMOG, it’s not WOW – changing horses mid-stream means someone is going to take a bath.
People will pirate the game if Blizzard makes it too hard to play legally
(i.e. DRM like spore) or if they sell it for too high a price. The demand is there but if peoples need to play the game exceeds their wallet then they will have no option but to pirate. (Sad but true).
Personally, I have the money – but I wont buy it out of principle the same way I boycott Nestle products (and have done now for ten years).
errrr…..for what reasons to you boycott Nestle O_O?
have a look at “Nestle boycott” on wiki
They did rather nasty things in the third world with breast milk – there are just some things you shouldn’t do in business. (no comparison to LAN here of course – boobs beat LAN any day).
hmmm, i think i have found out why Blizzard is taking out LAN. It has nothing todo with piracy…well not in the way most of us are thinking about it. I applogise if this is old news but it just clicked for me now.
StarCraft is huge in korea. Just take a peak at this vid. The have huge torunaments that get broadcasted.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6648934043675888354
In any case it seems that Blizzard is upset because their product Starcraft is being used on TV without their permission and they are not getting a slice of the action, no royalty….So how do they make sure that they can regain control with their next release of starcraft?…thats right take LAN out and force everyone to play via B.Net then Blizzard can control things again and force broadcasters to share the profit…pay or we cut your connection.
Read more about it here: http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft/news/10265-blizzard-vs-kespa-the-ultimate-fight
Makes some sense really, mind you – if they put broadcast rights in their user licence then they would tie things up surely? Why pull LAN unless it’s part of a media stunt to build up awareness before Blizzcon?
If you anger the playerbase in this way then excpect people to pirate it more, simple!
And splitting it into three parts is just trying to make even more money out of us gamers. They talk about not releasing a game untill its ‘finished’ then bloody well finish it and release it as a game with three campaigns and LAN play!
heres hoping ppl are quick with the ‘no battle net + lan’ hack/patch
LOL it was very funny
but i liked th first 1 better.
niei! niei! niei! niei! lol
they have named their new race nigrow oh sorry worgin Blizzard is the notzie. The are stating through this that black people are dogs a race of dogs with nigrow spelled backwards. I don’t think anyone is laughing.