It seems mechanically difficult. I’d actually be interested to know what other MMO’s accomplished this? The BNET I feel makes sense cause in actuality it’s a namelist not attached to any particular game. But for ingame WoW, doesn’t the game itself use lists of player names and realms to tell who is online or offline? How would you queue for content or join other groups if the game doesn’t know you’re online? I don’t think actual guild lists and friends lists in game it’s possible to really just turn your name offline while keeping your player in the world online.
How about just continue doing what your doing and ignore?
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It would work the way it does now when “Appearing Offline”
Bnet friends don’t see you “HIGHLIGHTED” in queue. They won’t know you are in the group unless they join and actually see you. (ppl can still msg you and invite you, while “Appearing Offline”. So you can still queue for anything and whisper anyone just like it works now for Bnet and Communities but NOT Guilds and Character added friends on the server?)
What is up with this half working option???
This could and should be the same for “Appearing Offline” for guild members and character added friends.
I do find it odd that quick join will ignore that you are in offline mode and broadcast regardless. Like what’s the point then?
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The worst part is that even players you have on btag that play on different servers can see you queue for something in the quick join tab.
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hmm apparently you haven’t really made any friends in this game on a spectrum whom literally does not understand what boundaries are. I dunno maybe I am just too nice…
It sounds like to me that a lot of the people who are against this must feel like they will be the ones avoided… otherwise what harm is there in adding in a feature that some might use? No one HAS to use said feature… but it would be there for people who feel the need to use it.
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I see no problem with this, in fact it works on Steam and has for years. Don’t feel like talking to people but still wanna play a game you can with invis mode. There are just times where I don’t feel like interacting with others and it’s less drama than saying “I get you’re being nice but I wanna be alone” which a lot of people take as “Dear God do you EVER shut up”.
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The feature was never intended to be used to hide from your friends or guild mates. if you need a break from either and they don’t understand, they drop them and move on.
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I’m not really for or against it, I’m just saying that if people don’t respect your boundaries, then they’re not really friends.
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well I particularly have a friend who is a little intellectually compromised… He doesn’t really understand this concept… It really isn’t his fault and I know it is’t. Sometimes things are a little more complicated than what people think.
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What I’m getting from this thread is someone got busted! Bwahahaha
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Blizzard isn’t going to give people an option to opt out of the world because they want to go “offline”.
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We have those… we’ve had both those options for years.
I am one of the worst culprits when it comes to adding way too many people to bnet and yet I have never had constant spam invites. Clearly I am doing bnet things WRONG.
Honestly though… Don’t add so many people to bnet if that’s the case. Make a discord.
It was made because the bnet launcher has more than one game, not so people could be sneaky in WoW.
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I agree completely! When I choose to appear offline, I want it to keep others from seeing me online at AT ALL TIMES! I have real life co workers that play WoW, that I want to play with SOMETIMES, but most often just want to unwind from life and chill out. When someone adds me as a friend, OR when I log in and it alerts all my guildies, I get whispered until I have to log out and watch Netflix instead. PLEASE blizzard, make the APPEAR OFFLINE feature fool-proof! I need my private space!
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I agree 100% When I want to hide from everyone, that includes guildies, and people that have added me to their friends list that WSP me to death and make me wanna unsub! I enjoy playing in groups 30% of the time, the rest SOLO play thank you.
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The fact that when I “appear offline” guild members see that I log in and out has kept me from being guilded actually. I have a very busy life, and I don’t mind playing with friends SOMETIMES, but I do get wore out occasionally after a long day at work and really just wanna play alone. When this happens I choose to appear offline, but people who have me on friends list just tsp me anyway. I’ve tried creating secret alts, being unguided at all times, and hiding on servers where nobody knows me, but eventually I do want to show my character off to friends etc, join groups for an occasional dungeon etc. Mostly I’m just frustrated cause this feature is so close to giving me what I need to be social when I want to, and a place to hide when I don’t, but for whatever reason still alerts people in guild etc when I come online. Seems a funky broken tool… Blizz please fix this!
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Yeah, make “Appear Offline” actually work fully in all cases not just half.
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This is a silly premise, you can have friends that you don’t wanna talk to and hang out with 100% of the time. You can also have friends that you do care about, that are in fact sensitive, and can’t handle being told you need space. Yes, friends, real ones aren’t perfect. Being able to hide when you need to is the way to go.
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Guild Wars 2 has this functionality. You even appear offline to your guild(s). The only caveat is that guild chat is disabled for you as well. You can still whisper people or talk in party, but on lists, you appear completely offline.
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