It seems the hyper offended have struck again, this time deeming Blizzard past due date for another PR fallout. It’s been a lengthy vacation for Blizzard following the dust up with Dustin Browder and that one roller derby outfit in Heroes of the Storm.
Butt now Blizzard’s decided to remove Tracer’s “Over the Shoulder” pose after a complaint was made about the pose’s implied sexuality (on analysis the poster should be targeting the yoga pants vs. the pose but whatever).
The pose in question:
In part, the complaint that started it all:
Getting art into a triple A game isn’t a small task, it has to go through an implementer, a team lead, an art director, and a creative director. This is a team effort. And I believe the team is responsible for upholding the great example overwatch can set to the rest of the industry for creating strong female characters.
I have a young daughter that everyday when I wake up wants to watch the recall trailer again. She knows who tracer is, and as she grows up, she can grow up alongside these characters.
What I’m asking is that as you continue to add to the overwatch cast and investment elements, you double down on your commitment to create strong female characters. You’ve been doing a good job so far, but shipping with a tracer pose like this undermines so much of the good you’ve already done.
Despite the post’s poor reception on the boards, this complaint from the perspective of an individual outside the target demographic was enough reason for Blizzard to start making the appropriate changes.
Jeff Kaplan’s post:
The response to the removal of Tracer’s pose seems largely negative, outside the response of the boards, a strawpoll showed 90% in favor of keeping the pose and popular PC critic TotalBiscuit uploaded a parody of the complaint yesterday, the parody is fast approaching 400,000 views. Removal did seem to find majority support on NeoGAF though.
Thanks: GameRanx
Spencer joined us in early 2015, previously a console centric gamer he switched to PC a few years ago. He later helped push for an increase in Japanese content on PC with the #SEGAPCPorts campaign. Previously he ran a SEGA fansite as well as co-hosted a gaming podcast. He thinks Duke Nukem 3D is the best FPS of all time, his text message alert on his phone is literally Duke Nukem saying “Let God sort ’em out.”
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Oh f’ing hell, I’m sure the comment section is going to be lovely.
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Somebody stole your avatar :).
Yeah, where is it ? (The Avatar)
Got tired of avatars, and tired of seeing my ugly face aswell. -.-
I downvoted. Next downvote you get banned D:
You would really do that to meeeee?
All right, made this one just for you. <3
Then Wait until you see me, the avatar will be back and you will fall in love with your face 😀
It’s actually gone over okay now, fix your avatar though — right now you’re lacking cred.
Depends on what you call “okay” though.
And I got your attention already, no need for avatars! <3
Nobody was murdered = Ok.
Some of my brain cells were.
Although to be fair, it may or may not have ~external reasons~ for that to happen, and the usual internet daily routine just triggers it.
I have some weird associations with dystopian novels where all citizens go by their numbers instead of names, and individuality is strictly prohibited.
I have no time for businesses who give into this new generation of SJW temper tantrum throwering If Blizzard isnt prepared to stand by freedom of expression/speech, then they can f’ off.
I guess the complainer did this only for publicity. If so, he succeeded. He attacked the soft spot of today’s media – political correctness.
Don’t forget about their response to the controversy which reeked of damage control.
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Of course Neogaf would favor the removal of the pose, they’re a bunch of SJW asshats.
That website is filth.
sony loving sjws, you cant make this up.
So do Ubisoft, they also keep forcing transgenda characters on us.
Unironically, they worship the company who f*cling surrendered to North Korea.
Man I love Razorfist videos.
Yup, dude is the sh*t.
I got instantly banned after posting “Am I on Tumblr?” in a thread about the adult dancers at that one Microsoft party.
They told me I wasn’t contributing to the conversation even though 70% of the thread was people gasping and saying how offended and disgusted they were.
Wow…
do you have the link for that MS party thread?
Sad… Blizzard is one of the very few big companies that still focuses on making fun games instead of focusing on political correctness. I hope, whiny little b*tches won’t change that.
seems like they already did change 🙁
Blizz did say that they wanted to change the pose for quite some time since it doesn’t match the character of Triss. May be that is true because Widowmaker is still half naked and her dress wasn’t changed because some people whined about it. We may never know.
“Blizz did say”
that was the part of their Damage Control statement. they are lying.
Feminist brainwashed garbage.
These people arent real feminists. They hijack ideologies like feminism, then use it as a form of revenge rather than progress.
Feminism was never good. You’ve been duped.
Feminism is ok when it is about inclusion. In cases like this when it is about censorship feminism is harmful.
Just notice how it instantly divides everyone and puts women on the target, making them look like easily triggered whiny children who are afraid of the tiniest hint of sexuality in a fictional character. That’s not really any kind of progress being achieved.
Feminism is dead, it’s just about hating men now and getting more for women
“Feminism is ok when it is about inclusion.”
No. Feminism was and is never good. You’re falling for a scam. Terms like “inclusion” sound NICE, making the people who keep repeating them sound NICE by association. But their actions are never nice. Feminist language is a tool by and for power hungry sociopaths to gain influence and achieve their goals by abusing our (everyone’s!) natural tendency to look out for women. Men have a protective instinct towards women, and women have a strong in-group preference. “Feminism” is when manipulators (male or female) figure out that they can use this protective, supportive bias towards anything female for their ends.
Remember “think of the children”. At some point we figured that out and stopped falling for it, so the manipulators moved on to “think of the women” and so far most people keep falling for it over and over.
Nice one Spencer, and TB’s video was amazing, lol.
“It seems the hyper offended have struck again”
:))
I really cant believe how these people can exist. When they first showed the game there were sjws in kotaku going “no black character? Tough russian woman with neon hair really blizzard?”
Wtf do these people want? When fallout 4 was shown some special snowflake wanted to mail the devs telling them that the part the main character wore a dress in the trailer triggered her because she is trans. WTF??
These people are just looking for things to complain about, things no one cares about.
Games have serious issues like preorder crap, unoptmized pc versions, drm, always online, awfl business practices, ubisoft recycling to h3ll and back. Yet none of those things are adressed but one character with a buttslap? QUICK QUICK CHANGE IT, now this happens again. Omg these people they truly have no issues whatsover in their life so they need to whine about something.
The ridiculous parade of feminist articles praising rise of the tomb raider, when it is just a third person shooter that had you changed the main character to a man it would make ZERO difference in the game’s quality whatsoever….then again these morons think people prefer the old Tomb raider games due to the pixelated huge breasts and not the actual gameplay.
If only we could portray bad optimization as a feminist issue, that will be the only way to finally fix this problem.
So that’s what counts as offensive nowadays is it?
What a ridiculous state our world has got in since the rise of social media.
I’m disappointed in Blizzard they should have stood by their work and artistic decisions. Seriously what small percentage of people would be put off buying this game because of that pose.
Special snowflakes who are entitled enough to think that other people’s art should be changed when it doesn’t align with their world view or sensibilities are a f*cking cancer. I have no time or respect whatsoever to spineless, cowardly developers who bow down to them. Purely out of principle, I’ll be boycotting devs that pander to the morally outraged, purely out of principle. Too many devs have proven that they have no spine whatsoever, and they won’t be forced to fight back unless it affects their bottom line. If you don’t have enough respect for your art to fight for it in the face of adversity, why should I?
I, SERIOUSLY, don’t see how this can be viewed sexualized. I wonder what these whiny bit*ches think when they see japanese made female characters 0_0
Well, the people who complained obviously found themselves getting a confused erection thus making them embarrassed, then enraged and then self loathing. Which then resulted in complaints from beta males who (in reality) offended themselves.
not a big fan of nudity in games or japanese sh*ts anime or dfuq they are called!
if i want nudity i will invite some girls over my house and problem solved!
Feeling the need to validate yourself to random people on the internet shows your insecurity.
Ooooh what a playboy macho.
idk i like to show off because god made me good looking!
You were made through several complex and well understood chemical and physical processes, with your mother’s egg and your father’s spermatozoon.
i know and i love them because of that !
father= italian+croatian
mother=romanian+german
= me
Then don’t thank the invisible magic man in the sky, unless I’m mistaken and you were just using it as a figure of speech.
“Not a big fan of nudity in games”
“If i want nudity i will invite some girls over my house”
I don’t know what you’re trying to do with that sentence
Since there isn’t any nudity in the game I don’t understand your point.
It’s so odd…
These radical feminists (extreme feminists, internet feminazi’s, sjw’s, call them whatever you will, basically the politically correct version of an e-peen wielding keyboard warrior) have deemed themselves so hyper-progressive that they’d don’t realize just how REgressive they’ve become – now *anything* that portrays (cartoon/animated!) women as attractive/sexy, even if it’s 1 of 75 character poses, is suddenly sexist and offensive.
You might as well be asking all women shown in games to be wearing a hijab or burka at this rate.
No real feminist believes this, they don’t believe this sets women back or hinders them. Equality means being treated equal. You think no men are sexualized? How many male protagonists fall into the category of late-20’s/early-30’s, 6 pack toting, 6ft+ standing chiseled features reminiscent of a marble statue having adonis? Oh right, the vast majority. Where’s the shouts that this overly sexualizes men? That it sets a bad precedent or impossible standards?
I guess that’s not as important as 1 out of 21 character’s single pose out of her entire catalog though. I mean it’s a woman, it’s more important.
>No real feminist believes this
No true scotsman fallacy. Stop falling for this nonsense. A feminist is whoever calls himself a feminist. Let go of the term, feminism was never good to begin with.
>Equality means being treated equal.
That’s not what that term means to feminists and never has been. To feminists equality has always meant getting the same respect as a man while keeping the perks of being a woman. Have you ever heard of feminists trying to make divorce and custody laws more fair for men? Have you ever heard of feminists trying to make ANYTHING more fair for men? Feminism was never about equality, equality is just one of the many emotional buzzwords they use to dupe neutral observers into siding with their insane cult over reason.
You’re right in that “feminism” has certainly – in modern times – become a word tainted by what we’re seeing today, though I don’t think it was always the case.
Perhaps I should have used “proponent of gender equality” as a more accurate term.
Feminism was good and made sense when it was being used in times when there was legal disparity between men and women, their goals have been achieved already in the west, that was the first wave feminists (right to vote) and second wave (equal pay).
Feminism should only be used (if at all) in third world areas, such as those dominated by Islam/Hinduism where women are treat as if they were sub-human and property of males.
Rarely do the modern third wave feminists in the west dare to talk about what goes on in real patriarchal societies abroad, because most of them also abide by social justice principles as well as cultural relativism (all cultures are equally good).
I don’t know about you, but sometimes I believe those goofs do it for attention only. Feminists are attention seekers.
“Removal did seem to find majority support on NeoGAF though.”
what do you expect in that militarily enforced sjw circlejerk?
if you think we’re removing people with differing opinions, then we don’t want you here, BANNED. ooh neogaf
Here’s the picture you’re referring to
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I love it how when you get banned, if they bother leaving a message it says something like “You weren’t contributing to the conversation”, which is what I got after making a mild humorous post that included “Am I on Tumblr?”, I instantly got berated by other members outraged by the implication and comparison.
2 minutes later I was banned as I finished typing a reply to someone.
70% or more of the thread was just singular word outrage and offense posts, apparently the discussion contribution rule doesn’t apply there.
They make it so blatant, I love it, you just replace “discussion” with circlejerk or safe-space.
“F***” – NeoGaf
The entire first page of every gaf thread
“She knows who tracer is, and as she grows up, she can grow up alongside these characters.”
And the pose is a problem because while he wants his daughter to become a serial killer when she grows up his heart would break if she ever developed a sexuality.
I hope this cuck kills himself when his daughter INEVITABLY grows up to be a promiscuous brat. So glad I’m not interested in Overwatch, I would be mad as hell if I cared about the game.
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Can you tell me what “SJW” means?
G o o g l e . c o m
If people start to use proper words again instead of letters, that would be nice and no need for “googling” every god damn thing.
Social Justice Warriors…literally I’m laughing right now. Oh the internet…
If you never heard it doesnt mean its new. I’ve been hearing this word at least once a week from past 2 years when gamergate started.
why say ” I’m ” and not ” I am “?! its easier to summarize 3 not so short words to 3 letters.
Blizzard removes the pose of one character but leaves the exact same pose for another female character. I don’t understand you Blizzard.
f’ing ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But yeah, you should remember to tell your daughter that shooting people is just as bad, even a bit worse, than showing your butt.
now people see the the effect of these feminist and SJWs. previously when i was talking out of them and i got insulted as misogynist. so if you disagree with them then you are misogynist
O__O
My thoughts exactly, the only way to tell where the butt ends and the thighs begin is because of those straps, she’s flat as a board back there.
Wow 0_0 I had no idea about this one(though to be fair, I don’t follow “THIS” kind of feminist crap). I think I’ll hold on to my savings for a new PC build for a ticket to mars.
Time to leave the earth guys :))
Ah NeoFaggot never failed to satisfy me.
thanks
You might get PTSD, you’ve been trigger warned.