Quote Originally Posted by TiaHariberux3 View Post
Its valid since players most of the time dont use busy status cause they CANT receive /tells from friends if they could turn it on and still receive not only would it defeat the purpose of /busy but also more ppl would turn it on.
Busy also blocks trade attempts, invites, ready checks and more. The proposed status only hides people from the player search - it still allows you to send tells to them if you can see them. It actually would even still allow you to left click the name in the chat and send tells that way if it appeared via emote or something that's been said. The proposed status prevents people from following you around by searching for you and porting around, /busy does not. It's very much different in purpose and consequently, no, it would not defeat the purpose of /busy one bit.

That aside, what newbie even uses the player search to ask random people questions? >_> I can see the novice network, or /shout, but player search?