If you take the time to read his post, he said "8 Player LAN mode"Not the free "8-player Internet" mode that went byebye a while back...
Too many people were abusing this by setting the game up on free servers to create "LAN"s over the internet and so make 8 player rooms again. Please try to keep up
We're looking at ways to implement that style of play into something that we can host on our servers.