Problem with viewing metaballs in group instance even though it is assigned to that group #71242

System Information
Operating system: Windows 10
Graphics card: AMD FirePro SDI (0x6861)

Blender Version
Broken: 2.79 and 2.8

I created a particle system, with metaballs as my object. I then added this particle system and a few other objects to a group. When I add a new instance of that group, the metaballs are not visible in the instance. I am still able to replicate this issue without the particle system as a factor.

Steps

Add metaball to scene
Assign to a group
Create a group instance of that group
You will notice that you can not view the metaball

Added subscriber: @Michellevl16

Added subscriber: @DuarteRamos

This is a followup of a Blender Stack Exchange question and probably a dupe of

https:*developer.blender.org/T21747 and https:*developer.blender.org/T69753

Note that this doesn't currently work in 2.79 either, I can recreate it in Windows 7 64bits and Windows 10 64Bits.
Converting metaballs to mesh seems to work around the issue, although in 2.79 the object gets removed from the group, and requires manually adding back.

Closed as duplicate of #69753

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Problem with viewing metaballs in group instance even though it is assigned to that group #71242