{"id":121166,"date":"2017-10-08T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121166"},"modified":"2017-10-07T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:44:52","slug":"blizzard-adds-appear-offline-feature-to-battle-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/121166-blizzard-adds-appear-offline-feature-to-battle-net","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard adds &#8220;appear offline&#8221; feature to Battle.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has launched a new beta version of its Battle.net client, which has several new features.<\/p>\n<p>This includes the ability to appear offline to friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe experience of appearing offline might be slightly different depending on which game you are playing,\u201d said Blizzard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the case of World of Warcraft, your guildmates will see your character come online and enter WoW\u2019s 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 game will not see you online.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard also introduced a Social tab, along with\u00a0groups, profiles, and avatars.<\/p>\n<p>It looks similar to chat service Discord and will let you start group voice chats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Battle.net-beta.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"2143286794\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-232217\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Battle.net-beta-640x406.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Battle.net-beta-640x406.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Battle.net-beta-600x381.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Battle.net-beta-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Battle.net-beta.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"Battle.net beta\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/230073-blizzard-mutes-toxic-overwatch-players-on-xbox-live.html\">Blizzard mutes \u201ctoxic\u201d Overwatch players on Xbox Live<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has launched a new beta version of its Battle.net client, which has several new features.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":119922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3684,665],"class_list":["post-121166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-battle-net","tag-blizzard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}