Some discussions at BlizzCon 2009 regarding Stacraft II have pointed out that maybe the legendary sequel will support LAN. Rob Pardo, Executive Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard Entertainment said:
"There's a few legitimate cases that we're going to try and address over time. Location-based tournaments, or let's say I'm in a dorm with a firewall or something like that, hopefully there's a way to determine that and maybe start a peer-to-peer game. 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."