However, it should be addressed, as it is leaking information that the user has explicitly chosen to keep restricted, by manually choosing to “Appear Offline”. It could be an unintentional bug or side effect of how the login systems work. This means you can launch the app and game away. friends will still see you online, be able to whisper you, and youll be able to reply as normal. Creators of the Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch series, Blizzard Entertainment is an industry-leading developer responsible for the most epic entertainment experiences, ever. Soon, World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, and Diablo III players will be able to select 'Appear Offline' as one of their social-status options (along with Available, Busy, and Away) for those times when they want to wander Azeroth by their. The main event, though, is the ability to set your status to show you as offline to your Blizzard friends while remaining connected to. However, he also found the information that is leaked because of this concerning. In the coming months, we're planning an update to that will give you more control over your online presence when playing Blizzard games. Now my friend doesn’t care too much about being offline, I do, and he’s doing it to poke fun at me in all good fun. His status indicated “Offline for 40 minutes”, therefore I now know he started playing 40 minutes prior which was confirmed. However, I can see that his status jumped from “Offline for 20 hours” to “Offline for 1 minute”.Ī separate time, I joined in, I can see him active on Discord and join in with our clan. He looks offline in Battle.net and in Overwatch. With that knowledge, you can also estimate the length of time that person has been online (whist they have indicated to appear offline).Īs an example, my friend chose to Appear Offline. Some people prefer to appear offline, and have their reasons for it.Ĭurrently the information can be used to infer that someone is currently online, or at the very least, online recently. Now, to my understanding, the change in state is so quick that the colour icon indicating status doesn’t change but the time does. As if it doesn’t care, quickly makes you makes you akin to “available”, checks your current status, and then set it. In the friends list, and also within Overwatch itself, the "Offline for " should indicate the last time a user was logged into the client, whilst not appearing offline, i.e., with the status: Available, Idle, or Busy.Ĭurrently, it resets that time when you log into the client, regardless of your current status.
The only option is to remove them and add them on again later, but this does not really do the job as other networks like skype or the like do it. When appearing offline in the Battle.net client, the user should, for all intent and purpose, appear completely offline. Currently (as unfortunate as this is), there is no option to appear offline to friends which are added to the battlenet list.