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juicyjames
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http://us.battle.net//sc2/en/blog/7315731
In the coming months, we're planning an update to Battle.net that will give you more control over your online presence when playing Blizzard games. Soon, World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, and Diablo III players will be able to select "Appear Offline" as one of their Battle.net social-status options (along with Available, Busy, and Away) for those times when they want to wander Azeroth by their lonesome, dominate the galaxy in radio silence, or slay demons in solitude. When you choose this option as your status, all of your Real ID friends, BattleTag friends, and character-level friends will see you as “Offline” in their friends list whenever you’re logged into a game.
The “Appear Offline” status option will be added to World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, and Diablo III separately in future updates for each game. For Diablo III, we expect to add the feature in a patch after 1.0.5. For World of Warcraft and StarCraft II, we expect to add the option sometime after the release of each game’s upcoming expansion.
Thanks for your continued feedback, and we’ll share more information on the availability of this new feature in the months ahead.
It looks like the technology has finally arrived!
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Huh. They've actually decided to implement this. Well that's....unexpected o_o Cool news!
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that took them long enough
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Too late, but hell, better late than never. I'm glad it's coming in.
Now for paid name changes.
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Such announcements, about such neat and small features, make me at the same time feel happy (because a good feature will be implemented) and angry (why didn't they implement the feature in the first place).
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So they do learn, it just takes them several years
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Apparently, the appear offline function is too valuable to them as a marketing tool to release it prior to the new explansion.
Seriously though, about damn time.. just wish they'd patch it in like.. now.
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This just in - win/ loss ratios returning to non-masters players within the next 3 years!
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On September 20 2012 22:29 iKill wrote:
Now for paid name changes.
I'd settle for just name changes. Paying to change your name.... this isn't WoW.
I do welcome this however, I can now play in peace without being pestered by that one guy who has failed to realise how bad Diablo 3 is and wants me to play with him.
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so some people want to appear as they have a life? and blizzard is supporting that option?
they do know that 'busy' does the same thing except that you appear online. and coupling that with no messages ignored from people outside the buddy list pretty much seals the deal.
useless implementation. couldve done something better.
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On September 20 2012 22:26 juicyjames wrote:http://us.battle.net//sc2/en/blog/7315731Show nested quote +In the coming months, we're planning an update to Battle.net that will give you more control over your online presence when playing Blizzard games. Soon, World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, and Diablo III players will be able to select "Appear Offline" as one of their Battle.net social-status options (along with Available, Busy, and Away) for those times when they want to wander Azeroth by their lonesome, dominate the galaxy in radio silence, or slay demons in solitude. When you choose this option as your status, all of your Real ID friends, BattleTag friends, and character-level friends will see you as “Offline” in their friends list whenever you’re logged into a game.
The “Appear Offline” status option will be added to World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, and Diablo III separately in future updates for each game. For Diablo III, we expect to add the feature in a patch after 1.0.5. For World of Warcraft and StarCraft II, we expect to add the option sometime after the release of each game’s upcoming expansion.
Thanks for your continued feedback, and we’ll share more information on the availability of this new feature in the months ahead. It looks like the technology has finally arrived!
About time. Finally I can play SC2 again without my Diablo playing collegues telling me that I look tired and shouldn't play games till that late.
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On September 20 2012 22:33 CaptainCrush wrote:
This just in - win/ loss ratios returning to non-masters players within the next 3 years!
Haven't logged onto SC2 for a while.Have they even added clan tags yet?
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It's kinda funny that Battle.net 2.0 has copped so much flak for making players feel "isolated" and lack of social functionality and yet people get excited about this change 
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On September 20 2012 22:33 MicroTastiC wrote:
so some people want to appear as they have a life? and blizzard is supporting that option?
Some...but most people at some point want to be able to play without being asked to help, join, chat with, or otherwise be bothered by other people.
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Then you see a player from your friends list in WoW or face each other in Sc2 and goes "oh snap!"
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global play, appear offline is it possible valve have infiltrated blizzard?
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On September 20 2012 22:35 iPlaY.NettleS wrote:Show nested quote +On September 20 2012 22:33 CaptainCrush wrote:
This just in - win/ loss ratios returning to non-masters players within the next 3 years! Haven't logged onto SC2 for a while.Have they even added clan tags yet?
You know Blizzard... they haven't. :D
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Well "Some time after HotS" is not quite "Soon" to me :>
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