Because LAN is not natively supported by the game, I doubt it is possible. I believe games need to be hosted on a server for them to function. If I am wrong and there are basic TCP/IP connection functions built in, please correct me.

Though wouldn't it be possible to use the same idea as a emulated battle net server over the lan so you don't have to connect to the internet? i personally don't mind though using the emulated server if it does not lag though.

yah i agree i think having our own server is much possible than having it on lan. though we could face a huger problem soon since if you make a private server for sc2 surely those millions of fan out there who have not given a chance to play on blizzard's battlenet2.0 would loading up your server.

the good thing about lan for example via hamachi is having your own freedom hosting and connection to a certain ip address and together by few group of people and maybe avoiding problems with internet connectivity as well.

A program such as PvPgn could/will make it possible, all it will have to support is a home server, where people log in directly to your pc, that's where Hamachi could be useful, playing with friends on a private server, or even on the same network (don't need hamachi for that though) the idea seems quite simple when comparing it to WoW, in-fact I believe the login data to be very similar. Once the emulated files are out it will be easy, I think people are even working on it as we speak. I always played on B.net myself anyway and so did people on my network, so I don't really care that much.


The only thing that bothered me about B.net was not being able to play a game on B.net with others, along with someone on your own network. I think that has been remedied though.