Blizzard say I can’t play Starcraft 2 right now

Tim Davis  September 2 2010 05:31:32 PM

I just went to play StarCraft 2 and Blizzard's authentication servers are down so I can't play. What kind of nonsense is that? This isn't even for multiplayer, I just want to play my single player campaign. Battlenet down = no game.

Then I realized that I won't be able to play this game on a plane, or in my garden (where the wifi is a bit iffy), or anywhere with no internet.

I hadn't realized that Starcraft suffered from this problem, since so far I've never tried to play it without internet. There is an offline 'guest' account, but that would mean having to start all over again and my heart sinks at the thought.

Is this the way that PC/Mac games are going? I only today decided to not buy Assassins Creed 2 because you need to be online every second for the game to work at all. I can't be the only one who wants to play a game while offline? Or am I?

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