

If Real ID is disabled, all friend requests will only use your BattleTag. Social in no way means that a person should be forced to Socialize every time they log into a "Social" game no more then they should have to answer their phone when "That Friend" who can't go 10 minutes without talking to someone calls. With the Real ID feature enabled, you can choose to share your real name on a case-by-case basis when sending or accepting friend requests.
In the friends list, and also within Overwatch itself, the 'Offline forIf I have had a bad day and just want to blow of some steam playing a solo game of Diablo I do not need, or want, a Social Butterfly Needy Susie texting me that He/She is lonely and needs me to quit what I am doing to come join them. net client, the user should, for all intent and purpose, appear completely offline. It is not negotiable.Folks like you Sir are the reason that many requested a "Appear Offline" the same as they have had since the first "Social" chat app was released. I want to appear online, but hide what game Im. Its the reason we dropped from 12 million to 3 million subs. The only setting that will hide what game you are playing is: Online Status, but it makes you appear offline. You cannot allow players to be antisocial. That whole notion where if you don't like it, its not meant for you.or you can't force players to play the way you s all invalid.

But if they allow people to appear offline, then you shoot the app in the foot.
#BLIZZARD HIDE ONLINE STATUS OFFLINE#
It would be better to let everyone who wants player offline to simply unsub and leave Blizzard games, because the players you draw in with a fully functional in-game community will more than compensate for any losses. Apologies for being harsh about it, but people like yourself need to know thats its never going to happen. Time shows that they dont give a damn about implmenting such a feature. And I mean years, it started in the wow community when battlenet was a thing and overwatch didnt even exist. And if they don't do it, player activity craters.Īppear offline must be removed. This feature has been requested for years. As far as I can tell, the best you can do is set your status to Away or Busy. So they are creating these social app features.and then they RUIN it by implementing an appear offline mode. HOWEVER, as I have said a MILLION times over the years, if you EVER give the playerbase an antisocial option, they will all TAKE it and the in-game community will suffer incredibly. If they follow through with it, they can DRAMATICALLY boost the sub counts in WoW, player activity in D3, etc. Blizzard Client Stock : Check Website for status Delivery Time : Instant Email. The ENTIRE point of doing something like the advanced social features added to the Blizzard app is to generate some sort of in-game community. Crusader-WoW Come and experience Shadowlands in a private server.
