One of the questions we get asked fairly often in the Queue and other places is "Is Blizzard working on an 'appear offline' feature for the Battletag/Real ID friend's list?" I understand the desire for the feature: Sometimes I don't want to have everyone I know see that I'm online because I just want to chill and do something small-scale or by myself.

Sadly, it seems that feature is currently having some troubles being realized. According to Lore, it's hit some technical difficulties.

@ellgar3 @Celestalon We ran into some severe technical and systemic hurdles that resulted in it being put on the back burner for now.

- Lore (@CM_Lore) March 3, 2014

I'm fairly sad about this, and I hope they can eventually solve those difficulties and get this into existence ASAP.

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