Une pseudo-LAN en préparation

Greg Canessa, développeur Battle.net, vient de déclarer dans une interview publiée sur shacknews, que Blizzard travaille actuellement sur une solution pour accueillir un pseudo mode LAN dans Battle.net 2. Le but serait d'obliger les joueurs à s'authentifier sur le server pour limiter le piratage puis d'offrir une connexion en peer-to-peer directement entre les deux joueurs sans passer par le server qui aurait un ping plus important forcément. Une vérification régulière en arrière plan est aussi envisagé ce qui voudrait dire que même après l'activiation initiale de ce mode spécial il faudrait rester connecté à internet.

Et pour finir Jay Wilson, le lead designer de Diablo 3, a confirmé que Diablo 3 suivra le même chemin concernant le mode LAN.

"Battle.net developer Greg Canessa says that Blizzard is actively working on a LAN-like solution to include for Battle.net play in StarCraft II.

"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," said Canessa.
Blizzard recently announced that traditional LAN play would not be included in the game, with offline play only being allowed in the singleplayer campaign.

I asked Canessa whether the solution his team is working on might include a pseudo-LAN connection, where the game would only check in with Battle.net to authenticate before reverting to typical LAN behavior.

"Something like that," he replied. "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."

Diablo III lead designer Jay Wilson also confirmed that Diablo III will treat LAN in the same way that StarCraft II does, meaning that while traditional offline LAN will not be included in that game, it should support any Battle.net solution developed for the RTS. "

Cette nouvelle ne va surement pas calmer la fureur de certains fans mais on peut voir que Blizzard travaille dessus et proposera quand même une connexion directe entre les joueurs.

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