Are you ignorant? Blizzard is owned and operated by activision, they are not separate like they lead on in the forums. Otherwise why does SC2 actually have modules built for LAN functionality, just links to them broken in game? SC2 was started before the two companies merged, activision started the no-lan with ALL games released under them by any company that is under activision. SC2 and Diablo 3 was no different, and they are looking at this for MAXIMUM profit. Sorry, but you apparently also forget, Blizzard/Battle.net gave up on Diablo 2 LOD back with patch 1.10ish, since then, numbers have gone down and keep going down, along with less and less support.
Also, it was Blizzard North that created Diablo and Diablo 2, they no longer exist. If you think this will be a polished gem, look at the massive amount of bug fixes and issues SC2 has had.
If you honestly think the Blizzard that created Warcraft, Warcraft 2, Warcraft 2BNE, warcraft 3 ROC/TFT, Diablo, Diablo 2/LOD, SC/BW, is the one making Diablo 3/SC2 then you are mistaken, WoW made them greedy, Activision came in, now they plan on auction houses, removing offline play entirely, having set save points, and all the generic **** that makes it the OPPOSITE of what Diablo 3 could have been.
The excuse for WoW having no offline was due to it's game type, Blizzard just wants your ****ing anal cavity spread open for their own pleasure ever since. It took international news to get the requirement for your real name to be removed from the forum posts in the "2.0" forums, and even threats from several differen't governments that would BAN the company from operating there. So once again, tell me how Blizzard is loyal to the fans?
OH HERES ANOTHER ONE!!!
Wanna play a tournament at a location with your buddies in SC2? GUESS WHAT, YOU LEGALLY CAN NOT. Another way you just sucked on blizzards ****. They saw what was going on in Korea, and now attempts to control everything, calling sc2 an "e-sport", and that a few buddies going to a single location for a laparty is against the law in their eyes.
I don't care if I get a warning over this, but I will admit, I have pirated every damned Blizzard title since the whole ******** over starcraft 2 came up. I run the SC2 lan hacks, I run a PRIVATE ****ING BATTLE.NET SERVER IN AMERICA FOR SC2 including "classic" battle.net. So what, if blizzard sees this, they can come after me, I could give a rats ass, they will just cause a few hundred other people to stop buying blizzard products.