Because it's fucking retarded, not even 1% of the player base will want this, they are rebranding a character to please people inside the company. Mcree is his own character at this point, only Blizzard employees see him as something else. That kind of decision making is doomed to failure, and they don't exactly have any goodwill capitol to spend at this point.
Progressive code word.
McWoke default skin McBroke premium skin.
How do you separate a product with an employee / how do you find it batshit to conflate a digital character with a human when it was literally created in part by said human with the exact same name??
I can hardly imagine the time and resources are that problematic. It's essentially a string replacement.
Not even the twitter mob cares about this, this is an announcement that could not have been more unnecessary
Yes.
They should change his name to 'Mad Dog'. Think about it.
You're trying to use an extreme example to make your point, these two things are not possible together. Here in reality the Overwatch character is far more famous than the dumbfuck he was named after.
Holy shit. I did not know this. Thank you.
We have a winner!
I'm using an extreme example to point out the flaw in logic that simply because its a fictional, digital character means it should remain in tact.
Man you must really have loved that name!
Or you know. Actually take a stand and retire the character like they always said they would one day.
www.digitaltrends.com
They didn't say they would retire McCree and/or other characters, but that it was a possibility in general.Or you know. Actually take a stand and retire the character like they always said they would one day.
Overwatch nearly scrapped Ashe, and hasn’t ruled out retiring characters
Ashe, the latest hero in 'Overwatch,' is the first with an ultimate ability that spawns a whole different character -- B.O.B. Conquering the technical challenge of B.O.B. nearly forced Blizzard to scrap the character.
They are delaying a dlc over it.
Of course, what better reason to start with the sexual harrasser personified as a cowboy in your game. Anything less is pandering and empty gesture. Distraction if you will. Especially after the shredding evidence allegation.
We've already passed the point of no return, I'm afraid.
It's not about having loved that one. It's just that if they are willing to literally rewrite the games story and re record so much voice lines and even push back a event arc just because the character was named after a guy but as a ingame character had literally nothing to do with him, then I'm just not interested in playing that game for the story. Overwatch used to be a good competitive game, nowadays it's nothing like what it used to be so I already stopped playing it for competitives sake. So if they change the story now, who knows what they'll change next if enough people start crying about some tiny similarities and since OW2s focus is more on PvE and story, I'm plain and simple not interested in it. It will still be a fun game i bet and have a very active community, it's just not one that I want to be part of where people have to cry loud enough to get what they want.
