New Social Features Now in Beta in the Blizzard Battle.net Desktop App

[Regalbeast]

Nop :P I was just talking about Blizzard... they are not known about their creativity or their revolutionary ideas... they just copy what works from other games or even wow addons and make them super polished!

Could be true in some instances, and not true in others.

[TheEaterofSouls]

Do these group chats work in-game? or do you have to keep tabbing out to respond to people in the group youre focused on?

[Tyrathius]

In the case of World of Warcraft, your guildmates will see your character come online and enter WoW’s in-game chat channels, and anyone who has you as a character-level friend will see you online on their friends list. Everyone outside of the same game as you will not see you online or playing any games.

Well, that's utterly worthless.

[Triggered Fridgekin]

Well, that's utterly worthless.

Pretty much what I was thinking.

[Easo]

Finally... I am sure this has nothing to do with Destiny 2... xD

[phriah]

Well, that's utterly worthless.

what did you expect, the wow social/friends system existed prior to battle nets current one, its always been separate.

[Alopex Major]

Remember when they were going to update the social tools in-game, like guild finder? Good times.

[Redblade]

Wait, is Discord a new idea? a messaging/chat room app? lol.....

Not new as such but they were first with combining IRC and Teamspeak in to a successful platform as far as I know. And this by the looks of it is nothing but a pale (blue) copy of Discord for Blizzard games only. Which kinda makes it redundant.

[qactuar]

It's not like Discord did it first.

[Sett]

No thanks. Don't care for Blizzard reading all my chats outside of their games.

Offline mode is all I want from this.

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

Wasn't the whole point of offline mode that no one, not even guilds on friends in-game would not be able to see you online?

[Ealyssa]

Nice blue discord you have there.

Pretty much what I tought. My guild gonna certainly switch to it as it's directly integrated to bnet.

Smart move indeed. Just need it to launch in EU now

[Kathranis]

Don't care for Blizzard reading all my chats outside of their games.

That's a real shame. I know everyone was clamoring to find out what you talk about in your free time with complete strangers, because, let's face it, you're just a super interesting person.

[alabaster jones]

Finally appear offline! Best news I've heard in years.

[Deleted]

Wasn't the whole point of offline mode that no one, not even guilds on friends in-game would not be able to see you online?

No, people who cried that appearing offline feature always used the argument that they have shitty bnet-friends whom they cant tell that they want to play alone and therefore needed the offline modus.

[Magistrate]

Remember when they were going to update the social tools in-game, like guild finder? Good times.

They said it would happen, but likely not this expac. That was during BlizzCon last year, I think. I would assume this came first because it applies to all of their games. I would imagine there's also the possibility this will somehow work with existing social systems in WoW once they're updated at some point, maybe next expansion or in one of the couple promised minor patches before this xpac ends. Maybe seeing cross-server guild options or multi-guilding or something.

In-game social UI also needs to be updated to allow us to on-click voice chat from the friends list without having to minimize for the battle.net ui.

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No thanks. Don't care for Blizzard reading all my chats outside of their games.

Offline mode is all I want from this.

So, all of the other companies hosting your chat services, texts, etc., are all somehow better and don't fit into your conspiracy theory that Blizzard employees are personally reading your chat history out of millions of players globally since they have no other work to do? Huh. Neat.

[Cathbadh]

Very cool! I'll be able to use these new features to connect with friends and then get them to sign on Discord so we can chat.

[Megitsune]

Well, that's utterly worthless.

Agreed, but I have a feeling since they actually took the step to implement it into b.net, they'll eventually fully implement it into WoW too. It would make sense, they're way behind in adding that feature anyway.

[Enan1981]

Yay! Can't wait to make some friends, so i can appear offline to someone!

Ha ha ha, honestly though im all for it... But this appear offline just seems passive aggressive lol. But then again back in AIM days, we would often make ourselves 'invisible' so people wont see us online.

[The Penguin]

Did anyone else laugh that Arcturus Mengsk was a Frog ala Pepe the Frog?

Well played Blizzard, well played.