No Dedicated Server or LAN support in C&C4?

A peculiar note appeared on the net today regarding how there will be no LAN or Dedicated Servers support for C&C4. The lead designer explains thusly:

"...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." 

Which of course makes perfect sense since when I go to different servers to play TF2 I have to re-earn all of my achievements and ... oh wait, I don't have to do that do I?   Face it, they didn't want to put it in as it would take extra time and man hours and they didn't want to dedicate the resources to it.