Not sure if this is something that folks here can help me with.
Recently I was perusing my friends list, looking through my various friends in order to do a purge of people I no longer talk to or people who are inactive and I noticed that one particular friend is missing from my friends list. I won’t list her B.tag info here for privacy reasons, but I found that curious because I know she hasn’t logged on in a very long time, and I didn’t remove her from my B.tag myself.
I reached out to her to double check to see whether she may have logged on and removed me, and she confirmed to me that she hadn’t, which made me curious as to whether or not her account may have been compromised. She says she has an authenticator active, but if I didn’t remove her from my B.Tag friends list, and she didn’t log on to remove me herself, then someone had to have access to her account yeah?
The only other thing I can think of is that Blizzard is freeing up inactive account B.Tag names, but I wasn’t sure that was even a thing that could be done.
I’m really confused and we’re both curious at this point to figure out what might be happening here.
My expectation is that the Support Forum Agents will be very limited in what they can reveal, as Blizzard tries as best they can to respect other users’ privacy.
B.Tag names aren’t freed up; the four digit number helps improve their uniqueness.
I understand that Blizzard can’t give me details about the account in question. I’m not asking for that. Essentially I’m wondering if Blizzard freed up the B.tag name or if the removal was the result of a bug/glitch. Because she’s adamant that she has not logged on to remove me herself, and I haven’t removed anyone from my B.tag list on my end.
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Battle Tag names are not freed up.
Unfortunately you won’t get a confirmation here, If you do think it is a bug, post on Bug Reports, QA will certainly take a look.
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It’s probably good for your friend to log on and take a look themselves. Also, do you think it’s possible that your friend might have changed their battle tag name? Probably unlikely, since they haven’t logged on in so long, but if they did change their name, then that could explain why they aren’t showing up under their old one.
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Possibly not the issue since she hasn’t been on in a long time, but did you check the Battle Net app settings > Friends and Chat to make sure you don’t have the hide offline friends for more than 30 days option checked?
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Just a heads up…
Jumped on wow last night just to pass some time.
To the point…
The RealID name was in the list of friends. This is new.
Maybe your friend saw that and unfriend you.
Send back a friend request for the other friend type. There are two types. Entire account or just the wow toon type ( single ).
Good luck have fun.
As the others mentioned, BattleTags don’t need to be freed up. The number after the # allows for them to remain unique for users.
The likely explanation is that one of you may have accidentally removed the name without realizing it but it is possible there could have been a bug that caused it. I haven’t seen any such reports, but it wouldn’t hurt to report it so our QA team can track if there are similar reports.
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There’s one scenario you haven’t thought of. Happened to me once many years ago. In a huff, I removed someone from by battletag friends list. Didn’t speak to that person for ages. Then they messaged me (a year, two years after the “issue” that resulted in me removing them) via other means, and instead of perpetuate some silly, stupid disagreement that happened years ago, I said:
“Nah, I never removed you, you can add me back if you want or I’ll add you back,”
So, there’s that. White lie, yeah, I’m not proud of it. But to me, at the time, it was easier than saying, “Hey! Remember two years ago when you acted like a jerk in that one random dungeon we ran? I didn’t like that! And since we argued over it, I removed you from my friends list!”
Feigning ignorance on such a benign matter seemed a far better way to go instead of re-igniting two-year-old nonsense. And in this case, you might be the person on the other end of it, completely unaware you even did anything at all to cause someone else to remove you. Sometimes things go like that. /shrug
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