How to alienate your fans

Blizzard has confirmed that there will be no LAN (local area network) mode for StarCraft 2. That sucks. I often have difficulties with Blizzard's servers. I don't want StarCraft to go the way of WoW, or I won't buy it. Sometimes I just want to sit down with my wife and have some quality frag time at home without dealing with the hassle of Battle.net. Is that too much to ask?