{"id":121571,"date":"2017-10-24T10:48:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T08:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121571"},"modified":"2017-10-24T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T08:50:01","slug":"battle-net-desktop-app-gets-new-social-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/121571-battle-net-desktop-app-gets-new-social-features","title":{"rendered":"Battle.net desktop app gets new social features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/blizzard\/21124623\/new-ways-to-connect-through-blizzard-battle-net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>overhauled<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0its Battle.net desktop app, adding new social features.<\/p>\n<p>The application sports a new Social tab, which allows players to access their chats, Blizzard Groups, and player-to-player gifting.<\/p>\n<p>Chat also works if a player is offline, allowing users to receive the chat when they next log in.<\/p>\n<p>The new Blizzard Groups feature allows gamers to connect with others who share common interests and meet new friends.<\/p>\n<p>Groups can have multiple text and voice channels, negating the need to use a third-party voice chat service.<\/p>\n<p>Battle.net users can also purchase and send game gifts to friends, and create their own avatar and profile.<\/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\" rel=\"bookmark\">Blizzard mutes \u201ctoxic\u201d Overwatch players on Xbox Live<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard has\u00a0overhauled\u00a0its Battle.net desktop app, adding new social 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-121571","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\/121571","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=121571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121571\/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=121571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}