FFXI is great and I want this return

[Doljax]

I don't understand why you would have people in your friends list who you want to hide from, especially when you mention them as "trolls" "finding you anyway".

Just get rid of people who you don't want to be surrounded with. everyone else should understand the BUSY Status.

You're assuming they don't want to be talked to all the time, rather than the occasional or one-off. This argument always comes up when people argue for invisible modes, and it never stands up to scrutiny. Sometimes it's just easier to be in an invisible state than explain to a dozen people that no, today you just want to decompress.

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You're assuming they don't want to be talked to all the time, rather than the occasional or one-off. This argument always comes up when people argue for invisible modes, and it never stands up to scrutiny. Sometimes it's just easier to be in an invisible state than explain to a dozen people that no, today you just want to decompress.

I mean.. you could just.. put the busy icon on. You don't get tells when it's on. And if these people are on your friend list they can mail you anyway, so being hidden wouldn't stop them from doing that. Honestly we already have the tools I just don't see the point. Busy icon does it's job, and if you want to bring up - But they still see me- Yeah? Even if they didn't they can STILL mail you. So honestly... update your status info and busy icon. Boom.. success.

[Doljax]

I mean.. you could just.. put the busy icon on. You don't get tells when it's on. And if these people are on your friend list they can mail you anyway, so being hidden wouldn't stop them from doing that. Honestly we already have the tools I just don't see the point. Busy icon does it's job, and if you want to bring up - But they still see me- Yeah? Even if they didn't they can STILL mail you. So honestly... update your status info and busy icon. Boom.. success.

You could, and it would solve the problem in the interim. But then you get the issue down the line of people asking things like "Why didn't you talk to me yesterday? Did I do something wrong? Is something wrong?" and so on. Basically the problem people generally wish to obviate with an invisible mode. Depending on how much development time it'd take to implement, there's nothing wrong with adding more tools of this nature.

Nobody reads statuses anyway.