12-22-2013, 09:08 PM
Strange. I don't know anyone else who uses W7 who can see the icons. Maybe they would of disappeared had you lingered longer? Or maybe something that causes it was disabled on that system (the possibilities are numerous... Aero for instance). Sometimes the most unexpected little things can cause problems like this.
Blizzard disabled Diablo whispering to combat Battle.net abuse (same reason they restricted Diablo to certain channels many years ago). Diablo is the only client that can connect to Battle.net without a CD-key, thus someone could for example connect up to 8 (infinitely more with proxies) Diablo 1 accounts and proceed to blockade channels, whisper flood other users and so forth. Normally Blizzard would of banned CD-keys for this type of behavior, but since Diablo lacks such a mechanism, they chose to make Diablo not worth abusing by removing privileges. I'm glad they chose to restrict the game rather than drop support for it entirely, but it is a shame the many had to pay for the misbehavior of a few.
Blizzard disabled Diablo whispering to combat Battle.net abuse (same reason they restricted Diablo to certain channels many years ago). Diablo is the only client that can connect to Battle.net without a CD-key, thus someone could for example connect up to 8 (infinitely more with proxies) Diablo 1 accounts and proceed to blockade channels, whisper flood other users and so forth. Normally Blizzard would of banned CD-keys for this type of behavior, but since Diablo lacks such a mechanism, they chose to make Diablo not worth abusing by removing privileges. I'm glad they chose to restrict the game rather than drop support for it entirely, but it is a shame the many had to pay for the misbehavior of a few.