Riot: No plans to develop LAN for home use

 Why do you not like fun things, Riot?

How disappointing.  :(

"Develop"??? You're developing it for friggin tornament mode!!!! All you would have to do is put a tiny lil button in server options that says Lan and you're good to go.

Usually companies don't input Lan because then Pirates can play the multiplayer component on their home PC's.

But when that game is Free to Play I don't see what they're missing out on, all I see is a petty company that won't give the gamers what they want for the sole reason they want it.

I hate LoL but there was no reason Lan play had to die except for the sole reason that these companies wanted us to have less freedom to play they're games

No Lan mode, it's look like a P2P games, this game will never grow up, LOL :)))))

I understand where Riot is coming from, but seriously, who would pirate a f2p game? that's like pirating freeware lol. I guess it's to keep people from hacking more than anything.

Though I fully understand the technical justification for this, it still stinks like any online-only modus.

The reason and only reason why there will be no public LAN is because of the private Starcraft: Brood War Leagues in Korea that blizzard saw 0 money from.  Riot is just trying to protect their product, it's also the reason why SC2 is online only. D=

I get that it's difficult to introduce LAN now, but I'm pretty sure that LAN support is not a general no-go for the genre. You mostly need to be afraid of people using their own servers, but I'm pretty sure that a properly designed game doesn't really need to fret about that. In LoL people would probably find ways to unlock everything for free as long as they don't need to use the public servers, thus Riot would loose money. Dota 2 on the other hand doesn't require you to unlock stuff in the first place, so I don't really see them missing out on too much. Even if there were private networks/leagues that might just boost the longevity of the game and lower server cost for Valve. I'm pretty sure the broad majority would still play on the official servers, when possible.

League of legends rules supreme but such decision could open a spot for a MOBA game with LAN support to overthrow LoL

Why ? :(

Yeah i can understand why they wouldnt do it.  I mean for it to even be feasible they would have to store player profiles client side right ? or else how would you have access to your champs and what not. That causes a major vulnerability that's just begging to be exploited and will be. There's no way to defend against that.  Also hackers would just figure out how to unlock everything in the lan client and stop playing and more importantly buying  on riots servers. Hell they would probably start setting up their on private serevrs to play on. The game may be F2P but they still make a ton of money and releasing a lan client would most certainly ruin that. People need to understand that its not that they dont wont there to be a lan client. Its just not practical at all.

Oh, god, that last section really makes me glad that I'm strictly a singleplayer gamer. What with all the fuss and (alleged) risks, the joy of gaming seems take second priority. Most gamers thinks LAN is great, but as always it seems, what gamers like, companies dislike.

I have my laptop with me at work, but I can't get wifi here. If I could play LoL and get paid for it all day I would be a pro by now. I would love that, but I understand why it would create so many issues.

Even if they don't release the LAN server to the general public, I think it's real cool that they developed one to support tournament play.  That shows a great level of commitment to their core base of gamers.

Lan version would need all your info stored on individual computers instead of server side, that'd make it very easy to hack all the stuff online and offline... I have no use for it so doesn't bother me.

As long as there is LAN for tournaments, it really doesn't matter. 

This does not surprise me the least.

If you guys have it developed, release it to the world!

I am assuming Riot is just worried that having a LAN-capable client would make it easier for hackers to reverse engineer the server responses and create certain tools to cheat on the non-LAN games. Although I think such effort on the developer part is always futile.

As others have pointed out, piracy shouldn't be an issue with a F2P game, at least not in the traditional sense.

Call me nuts, but I would love to see a console version.

lmao who would pirate a f2p game. that's like stealing free flyers.

its F2P so no offline mode so no lan

so piracy of a free to play game.