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LuciferSC
Canada535 Posts
Whenever you log-on it gets notified to all your friends (to both real-life and game). To make things worse, it even kindly shows when you were last on to real-life friends. There are times when I want to play SC2 without getting bothered by anyone. Could Blizzard please add a 'appear offline mode' in SC2? It would be even more fantastic if you could choose to be in that mode B4 you log on. | ||
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ssnseawolf
32 Posts
To add to your idea, the ability to have some granular control on a per-person scale would be awesome. Sometimes, I just don't want to talk to a specific person. Why not show as offline to them, but online to others? | ||
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lolnoty
United States7166 Posts
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Karliath
United States2214 Posts
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WarChimp
Australia943 Posts
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cHaNg-sTa
United States1058 Posts
On September 09 2010 17:14 WarChimp wrote: Just don't respond to them if they talk to you? I think most people would like to avoid this option. | ||
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Telcontar
United Kingdom16710 Posts
On September 09 2010 17:14 WarChimp wrote: Just don't respond to them if they talk to you? ahh if only life and the rules of social interaction were as simple as that. | ||
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guitarizt
United States1492 Posts
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Erectum
France194 Posts
 Maybe for the bnet2.0 with chan patch ? | ||
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PhiliBiRD
United States2643 Posts
we wont have what we should have had at launch for at least like 2 years or more, pron post 2nd expansion | ||
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Terranist
United States2496 Posts
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teekesselchen
Germany886 Posts
On September 09 2010 17:17 Telcontar wrote: ahh if only life and the rules of social interation were as simple as that. Haha yeah would be nice ^^ I'ld preferr a simply check box for "Hide online status" or something like that on the log-in window. | ||
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LeCastor
France234 Posts
I shouldn't had add people from my workplace to SC2, because they see how much time i spend on the game. | ||
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MrRey
183 Posts
On September 09 2010 17:14 WarChimp wrote: Just don't respond to them if they talk to you? This is being rude. I don't like being rude to friends/acquaintances An offline mode would be, just after chatrooms ("do you really want chatrooms?" :D), a major improvments. Actually most people wanted the possibility to "smurf" because that allowed playing without having to talk to anybody of your friendlist. | ||
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Jameser
Sweden951 Posts
On September 09 2010 17:09 ssnseawolf wrote: Agreed. To add to your idea, the ability to have some granular control on a per-person scale would be awesome. Sometimes, I just don't want to talk to a specific person. Why not show as offline to them, but online to others? this is playing a dangerous game lmao, what if that person you blocked is talking to someone you didn't block 'hmm ssnseasolf isn't online' 'err yeah he is' 'wat?'  | ||
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WolfStar
United Kingdom155 Posts
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Craton
United States17250 Posts
Anyway, I don't really see a reason to not have this implemented. The only real detraction is requiring dev time, but this doesn't really seem like a high-level thing to do. | ||
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ssnseawolf
32 Posts
On September 09 2010 17:36 Jameser wrote: this is playing a dangerous game lmao, what if that person you blocked is talking to someone you didn't block 'hmm ssnseasolf isn't online' 'err yeah he is' 'wat?' Good point. Sometimes, though, I just want to play with that "one friend," and ignore everyone else for the time being. | ||
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Ksyper
Bulgaria665 Posts
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
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krynis
Canada43 Posts
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MasterZilla
Sweden234 Posts
On September 09 2010 17:21 Terranist wrote: definitely a useful feature. at the very least there should be a do not disturb mode that blocks popups saying your friend just yamato'd 20 units or killed 5 changelings because it gets annoying when something like that draws your attention while trying to focus. I believe there is a setting in the options menu where you can turn off in-game notifications. That should stop all the pop-ups (except when you get your own achievements). | ||
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kojinshugi
Estonia2559 Posts
Blizzard seems to have some allergy against providing proper privacy controls to their social features. At least in WoW I had the option of making an alt on a different server that no one knew about. Of course with Real ID that went out the window. If I just wanna ladder my 1v1, I want the ability to just log on and do that, without having to talk to my 2v2 partner and make up some crap excuse. Because if you tell them "I don't feel like doing 2v2 right now", that's going to be universally interpreted as "I don't feel like playing with you". | ||
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Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
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Shorack
Belgium111 Posts
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Numy
South Africa35471 Posts
On September 09 2010 19:47 kojinshugi wrote: That just stops YOU from seeing the notifications. Other players will still see you. Blizzard seems to have some allergy against providing proper privacy controls to their social features. At least in WoW I had the option of making an alt on a different server that no one knew about. Of course with Real ID that went out the window. If I just wanna ladder my 1v1, I want the ability to just log on and do that, without having to talk to my 2v2 partner and make up some crap excuse. Because if you tell them "I don't feel like doing 2v2 right now", that's going to be universally interpreted as "I don't feel like playing with you". I think that's more a problem with who you associate yourself with. If you really can't tell your friend you just feel like playing 1v1 then there's a far bigger issue here. While an offline feature would be nice I really don't see it as something that should be prioritized. | ||
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Phos
Iceland106 Posts
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IronWolf
South Africa315 Posts
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TehForce
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Nihilnovi
Sweden696 Posts
On September 09 2010 20:37 Phos wrote: do you guys know if when you unfriend someone do you dissappear from their friend list as well? no you don't | ||
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groms
Canada1017 Posts
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Frem
France13 Posts
On September 09 2010 19:47 kojinshugi wrote: + Show Spoiler + That just stops YOU from seeing the notifications. Other players will still see you. Blizzard seems to have some allergy against providing proper privacy controls to their social features. At least in WoW I had the option of making an alt on a different server that no one knew about. Of course with Real ID that went out the window. If I just wanna ladder my 1v1, I want the ability to just log on and do that, without having to talk to my 2v2 partner and make up some crap excuse. Because if you tell them "I don't feel like doing 2v2 right now", that's going to be universally interpreted as "I don't feel like playing with you". So damn true. We definitely need an "invisible" mode or a custom mode to choose who can see us or not. I also feel so strange that you can add someone without him knowing that you did so, and finding someone's character name and code is not very hard, especially when they do online tournaments. | ||
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nanii
France30 Posts
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KinosJourney2
Sweden1811 Posts
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Zocat
Germany2229 Posts
yes you do. with realID friends. others not. | ||
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MangoTango
United States3670 Posts
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Phos
Iceland106 Posts
On September 09 2010 20:59 inforsomechop wrote: Would really come in handy when I bunk stay home and play - but some of my work colleagues are my bnet friends and could see me online...awkward :D one of my bosses actually added me as a real id friend. -_- wtf was i supposed to do? not accept the invite? and thats that with playing during work hours.. | ||
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BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On September 09 2010 20:29 Numy wrote: I think that's more a problem with who you associate yourself with. If you really can't tell your friend you just feel like playing 1v1 then there's a far bigger issue here. While an offline feature would be nice I really don't see it as something that should be prioritized. your post is not smart i have around 50 ppl in my flist atm.sometimes i just want to go on and play a stupid ums or do 1-2 ladder games. i dont want to answer to 15 people massaging me. sometimes i dont even want some people to know im online. there is a reason why evry freakin chat tool has a invisible mode. because many many people feel the same way. this wasnt a issue before because you could just could login on a another account, set /dnd "I HAVE NO TIME!" or just /f m "just playing 2 games then off again".all that isnt possible anymore. its obvious that its a needed feature. and it doesnt matter if it gets "prioritized" because it could be implemented withing hours anyways. | ||
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RyanRushia
United States2748 Posts
On September 09 2010 17:21 Terranist wrote: definitely a useful feature. at the very least there should be a do not disturb mode that blocks popups saying your friend just yamato'd 20 units or killed 5 changelings because it gets annoying when something like that draws your attention while trying to focus. you can set it to remove "toast notifications" which are those popups edit- just realized someone already said it | ||
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Penecks
United States600 Posts
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Deadlift
United States358 Posts
You can disable Real ID through that link. Bam. | ||
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muzzy
United States640 Posts
I need to practice my 1v1, but every time I get on I have friends asking me to play 2v2. Sucks having to tell each one of them "maybe later". | ||
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LuciferSC
Canada535 Posts
On September 09 2010 22:52 Kishime wrote: https://us.battle.net/account/parental-controls/index.html You can disable Real ID through that link. Bam. What happens if you do that? You won't lose all your friend list, would you? But yeah, the real point here is that we want to have the option to hide ourselves being online without using some tricks. | ||
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zyzski
United States698 Posts
On September 10 2010 00:53 muzzy wrote: I agree. An "invisible" mode is essential. I need to practice my 1v1, but every time I get on I have friends asking me to play 2v2. Sucks having to tell each one of them "maybe later". exactly! | ||
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rifi
United States74 Posts
Unfortunately I have a feeling that Blizzard is holding back this feature just to squeeze out a few extra game sales from people like myself, so I'd be playing right into their hands | ||
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kojinshugi
Estonia2559 Posts
On September 09 2010 20:29 Numy wrote: I think that's more a problem with who you associate yourself with. If you really can't tell your friend you just feel like playing 1v1 then there's a far bigger issue here. While an offline feature would be nice I really don't see it as something that should be prioritized. I hate this argument. 90% of the people on my friends list in online games are not my friends. They're people I play with. They don't know me personally, they don't know my schedule or my habits. And I don't want them to. I'm an adult and as such I have slightly higher standards for forging relationships than "this person talked to me once and we play the same video game". There's no "far bigger issue here". Sometimes I just don't want to talk to people I barely know, because telling someone who wants to play with me that I "want to do something else right now" can and will be interpreted, even if entirely subconsciously, as an indictment against them. You can't even tell the normal social white lies like "I have something important to do", because they can plainly see that you're playing a video game. Sure, I could spend lots of time looking for people for whom this would never be a problem, but that's a really retarded solution to Blizzard not including features that are completely standard in every online communication tool. I want the social features of an RTS game to be aimed at facilitating playing a fucking RTS game, not building some sort of pseudo-facebook network where we "tweet" our status updates to everyone. EDIT: Prioritized over what? The one dude who's in charge of changing siege tank damage vs light units? It's not like the entire development team needs to stop making Heart of the Swarm to add a simple feature to the bnet frontend. The problem here is that people have been requesting these features for months, but apparently the idiots in charge of the whole bnet system at Blizzard are from some different planet where everyone you play with is your next door neighbor and your Facebook friend. | ||
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kojinshugi
Estonia2559 Posts
On September 09 2010 21:52 Phos wrote: one of my bosses actually added me as a real id friend. -_- wtf was i supposed to do? not accept the invite? and thats that with playing during work hours.. Oh dear god you should have said gaming is against your religion. Giving your boss your RealID is... beyond insane. | ||
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Sentient
United States437 Posts
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Cohedra
United States51 Posts
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kojinshugi
Estonia2559 Posts
On September 10 2010 16:03 Sentient wrote: I really wish there was an invisible mode. When I hop online, I get a bunch of PMs from both RL friends and people I've played random team games with. I can blow off the random people, but I can't tell my RL friends the reason I don't want to play with them (diamond + bronze = no fun for diamond). If I set busy mode then I get Skype PMs. Sometimes I just want to ladder in peace. The above makes me really happy none of my RL friends play SC2. Blowing off some random dude I don't know might feel crappy but it has no lasting consequences to my social life. Avoiding a friend because they suck ass at a game is not a situation I want to put myself in. | ||
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kojinshugi
Estonia2559 Posts
On September 10 2010 16:07 Cohedra wrote: So you set your broadcast to "Just interested in laddering right now." If anyone messages you, you give them the same message. It would be a nice feature, but people are blowing it up more than it should be - like everything else on this forum. Nobody rational is going to take "just feel like laddering atm" poorly or as an insult. Welcome to the planet Earth, populated by human beings, who are not known to be rational. If you ask any specific person if they would take that poorly or as an insult, they would likely say "of course not". But human psychology is not something you can ignore. If you played a few 2v2 games with your Diamond friend and now he's permanently saying "I just want to ladder right now", you're going to notice and you're going to feel insecure about your relationship with that person and of their opinion of you. And a lot of people who play with real life friends might prefer the more social 2v2 or 3v3 brackets. If you're friends with those people and you prefer 1v1, you're stuck in the position where every time you log in, they get that toast notification and they're like "hey! wanna do 3v3?", because that's what they think is fun about the game. They may grasp on an intellectual level that you prefer the more competitive 1v1 bracket, but on an emotional level they feel that you are avoiding them and not the 3v3 bracket. It's not the end of the world, but it is really unpleasant to have to hit "Busy" every time I log in and want to ladder. A poorly implemented feature that makes the first part of the game experience really unpleasant is kind of problematic. (btw, broadcasts only show up for Real ID friends) | ||
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WarChimp
Australia943 Posts
On September 09 2010 17:15 cHaNg-sTa wrote: I think most people would like to avoid this option. Why? If you don't want to talk to them, pretend your AFK? Or extremely busy or tell them to bugger off? It can't be to difficult | ||
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Disconnect
United States84 Posts
Why? If you don't want to talk to them, pretend your AFK? Or extremely busy or tell them to bugger off? It can't be to difficult RealID friends can see what you are doing. So saying I'm AFK when you are clearly playing a quick match doesn't look to good. I'm on a CSL team and all my teammates are on my list and bug me constantly for practice every time I log on. Most of the time I just want to be left alone and play a few ladder games. | ||
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Epoch
Canada257 Posts
On September 09 2010 18:41 Numy wrote: There's a busy function that doesn't allow people to send you messages. Just do that. This isn't sufficient. There needs to be an appear offline mode. There are times that I am dodging certain people because I don't want to hang out with them and I tell them I have different plans. Well if they see me on sc2 as busy playing games then that kinda ruins the ruse. I want to be able to avoid people and play sc2. Blizzard please implement an appear offline function. | ||
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Bluetea
United States185 Posts
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TERRANLOL
United States626 Posts
On September 09 2010 17:14 WarChimp wrote: Just don't respond to them if they talk to you? Lol. sometimes when I'm at my house playing SC2 I'm also not doing other things with other people. Sc2 is something I practice and attend tournaments for, and not a lot of people really understand what it's like to take a game seriously and practice it, and they think that when you don't want to follow your every whim and go to some social event 2 or 3 times a day it's because you don't like them. | ||
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kojinshugi
Estonia2559 Posts
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