After the half baked concoction that Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 turned out to be there was little chance I was going to invest in C&C4 and after hearing the news that there will be no LAN support I am 100% certain I will give this game a wide birth. EA's games are far to buggy as it is and now they are removing chunks of their games to try and drum up sales. Still the sad part about this is all games seem to be heading down this dark path, I am starting to think PC gaming really is doomed ...

The reason being, as lead designer Sam Bass put it, is because of the global player progression system. This system is "across single-player, multiplayer and skirmish and all the information is stored in a server. So if you go to another machine -- friend’s house, Internet café -- whatever, you can login with your profile and all the stuff you’ve unlocked is accessible to you there. It all lives on a server so you can’t really do dedicated servers with that."

No LAN or dedicated server support for Command and Conquer 4