The current trend of games not offering LAN multiplayer anymore is quite annoying, and I believe devs are shooting themselves in the foot when they don't include it in the game as for a lot of people I know, LAN can be a deal breaker.
I have LAN parties with few of my friends at least few times a month, and its very frustrating when 5 or 6 people have to play online with ping, when we are sitting right next to each other in the same room. It also doesn't help when person that we get together at, has pretty mediocre connection to start with.
Furthermore, sometime we don't want to play against random ass people online, so it would be very nice to create your private LAN server and just mess around there.
At the moment we still play Crysis 1, because its still fun as heck. I got Crysis 2, and it was okayish, but none of my friends would buy it because it had no lan, and they don't care about playing online, or be forced into progressing your character by playing online. The game is just so limited, its sad, I really hope Crysis 3 will be much more flexible in that aspect.
Anyways, this is more like a question, suggestion, request, but I believe it would make the game better and increase sales.
Any suggestions, or discussion is appreciated!
Thanks!