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Re: Clever title about Overwatch Porn News Article
Yeah, the story is they were already planing on changing it anyway, and whilst that was only ever mentioned afterwards and thus could very easily be simple damage control, I'm willing enough to believe it given how several other characters all share the same generic pose. The only thing that caused the blow-up to occur at all, was as Twist says, how the initial response very much gave the appearance of pandering to a single vocal individual. They then closed the thread preventing discussion, and had to open it later to make a follow up explanation regarding having already planned a change anyway.
By that point, especially with the thread closed, people had already reported it all over the net, and many never even saw or heard of the follow up response. Had they initially answered with,
"The current pose is actually just a place-holder, and have been planing to change it anyway. We hope everyone finds the new pose satisfactory when it arrives."
And left the thread open, rather than...
"We'll replace the pose. We want *everybody* to feel strong and heroic in our community. The last thing we want to do is make someone feel uncomfortable, under-appreciated or mis-represented. Apologies and we'll continue to try to do better."
Then quite likely this would have never left their forums.
In all honesty, a managing director for the game shouldn't have been making any statement at all on such a trivial yet potentially powder-keg topic, that at the time was a mere forum thread with two dozen participants. Had Blizzard simply gone and changed the pose a month later to what it is now without having said anything at all about it, barely anyone would have even noticed, much less gave a shit.
Blizzard perhaps needs to ease up on the "try hard" progressive angle they've been dipping into, and keep it more casual. The previous time they tried to advertise their new character Zarya alongside the statement "We want to include a diverse range of body types" they both came under mild flak with one side complaining about the cheeseball pandering, and the other side complaining that despite their pitch, Zarya was just a dime-a-dozen burly Russian stereotype. You can't win with this kind of stuff. So they need to let the praise come naturally where deserved, and stop trying to fish for it in such murky waters.
Yeah, the story is they were already planing on changing it anyway, and whilst that was only ever mentioned afterwards and thus could very easily be simple damage control, I'm willing enough to believe it given how several other characters all share the same generic pose. The only thing that caused the blow-up to occur at all, was as Twist says, how the initial response very much gave the appearance of pandering to a single vocal individual. They then closed the thread preventing discussion, and had to open it later to make a follow up explanation regarding having already planned a change anyway.
By that point, especially with the thread closed, people had already reported it all over the net, and many never even saw or heard of the follow up response. Had they initially answered with,
"The current pose is actually just a place-holder, and have been planing to change it anyway. We hope everyone finds the new pose satisfactory when it arrives."
And left the thread open, rather than...
"We'll replace the pose. We want *everybody* to feel strong and heroic in our community. The last thing we want to do is make someone feel uncomfortable, under-appreciated or mis-represented. Apologies and we'll continue to try to do better."
Then quite likely this would have never left their forums.
In all honesty, a managing director for the game shouldn't have been making any statement at all on such a trivial yet potentially powder-keg topic, that at the time was a mere forum thread with two dozen participants. Had Blizzard simply gone and changed the pose a month later to what it is now without having said anything at all about it, barely anyone would have even noticed, much less gave a shit.
Blizzard perhaps needs to ease up on the "try hard" progressive angle they've been dipping into, and keep it more casual. The previous time they tried to advertise their new character Zarya alongside the statement "We want to include a diverse range of body types" they both came under mild flak with one side complaining about the cheeseball pandering, and the other side complaining that despite their pitch, Zarya was just a dime-a-dozen burly Russian stereotype. You can't win with this kind of stuff. So they need to let the praise come naturally where deserved, and stop trying to fish for it in such murky waters.
