Stop the Presses! It's a Miracle! UPDATED

Blizzard says that they don't plan to use micro transactions in Starcraft 2 because they "don't make sense."  However, the article goes on to talk about other ways of making extra cash from Starcraft 2 than micro transactions.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179496

Thanks to 1UP for pointing this out.

UPDATE:  Blizzard has confirmed there won't be any LAN play in Starcraft 2.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179525

However, there won't be any DRM restrictions, either.
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179516

By the way, WOWHead has an article up pointing to what they say is a great site for Starcraft 2 race guides.
http://www.wowhead.com/blog=157729

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Private Servers

Apparently some WOW players play on private servers. This is not a LAN and not approved by Blizzard, either. Private servers are against their terms of service. But it is interesting to hear how this all works.

http://www.wow.com/2009/08/25/15-minutes-of-fame-members-only/

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Battle.net Will Become Mandatory "in the not too distant future"

WOW Insider pointed me to this BlizzCon interview that talks in part about Battle.net being the mandatory way to logon into the Blizzard games. There is a lot of Starcraft 2 material also.
http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/1552233/Blizzard-Answers-Your-Questions-and-More?art_pos=5

Later on WOW Insider looked at the information from Blizzard more closely and discovered cross faction (and server) chat will be enabled. Note what security measures there are.

http://www.wow.com/2009/08/27/battle-net-2-0-to-allow-cross-faction-communication/

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