Pose to be removed from Tracer after complaints of it being too suggestive/sexual

[Wells]

It's not really child-like, non-sexualized or big-sis like, though. Which was your initial argument.

The statue emphasizes her mobility, activeness, and enjoyment in fighting. All strong parts of her character design. Doesn't have to hit every point every time. But its obviously not playing up sexuality like the removed pose was.

[Yarathir]

Hey guys look I found Tracer!

Just as much as you have found Mercy?

Not sure what your point is supposed to be here.

[Wells]

>snug, form-fitting outfit, energetic and friendly, cute and has an accent
>doesn't have sex appeal

You have unusual sense of sex appeal, mate.

You aren't able to differentiate between a character being attractive and a character having sexuality as a strong part of their character design?

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Anyway, I'm headed to bed. It's been real....well its been real dumb.

[Ulfric Trumpcloak]

Agree 100% with the decision, it's totally unnecessary to oversexualize video game characters like that. If you want to look at a chick's ass remember there's always porn.

[MrLordDariusCrowley]

Nothing about the complaints about Tracer's pose apply to these. The complaint wasn't that it was a shot from behind. It was that it was an ass shot on a character that doesn't have sex appeal as a part of her character design. Even on the only character there that really shows some glutes, its still way less emphasized.


This actually highlights why the Tracer pose was so dumb. Widowmaker is a femme fatale. A sexy pose makes sense for her character.

Personally I always thought that the Tracer version of the "Over the shoulder" pose has more of a "Catch me if you can" look to it.

[Mars_Trueskills]

Jesus Christ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This has got to stop now.. Man this is infuriating...

[Fenixhart]

Just as much as you have found Mercy?

Not sure what your point is supposed to be here.

Emphasizing how the pose that was removed was readily found somewhere else on Google images just by going "Over the shoulder pose"

Because nothing says character fitting like uninspired posing.

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Personally I always thought that the Tracer version of the "Over the shoulder" pose has more of a "Catch me if you can" look to it.

I will never cease to be amazed at the myriad interpretations of such a stock pose.

[SodiumChloride]

Agree 100% with the decision, it's totally unnecessary to oversexualize video game characters like that. If you want to look at a chick's ass remember there's always porn.

It's totally unnecessary to have high detail 3D models even ... just reuse old Quake one models and pain them a different color to make recognizing easier.

Don't see you advocating for that.

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Personally I always thought that the Tracer version of the "Over the shoulder" pose has more of a "Catch me if you can" look to it.

Doesn't matter what you think.

Unless you are good at harassing corporations with endless emails and bombing their twitter feed 24/7, they don't care about you.

Corporations like Blizzard only response to money and harassment.

[MrLordDariusCrowley]

Emphasizing how the pose that was removed was readily found somewhere else on Google images just by going "Over the shoulder pose"

Because nothing says character fitting like uninspired posing.

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I will never cease to be amazed at the myriad interpretations of such a stock pose.

Yeah, it's pretty surprising that some people thought sexy time when they saw that pose.

The human mind is wierd as fuck.

[QuiSiLoR]

All I can do is sigh...

I mean really do these people have nothing better to do then complain? In a game where people are shooting, maiming and killing each other the fault they found was with a pose that showed ass? An Ass that was covered and you see many times when out in the real world etc.

Its just pathetic...

[Fenixhart]

It's totally unnecessary to have high detail 3D models even ... just reuse old Quake one models and pain them a different color to make recognizing easier.

Don't see you advocating for that.

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Doesn't matter what you think.

Unless you are good at harassing corporations with endless emails and bombing their twitter feed 24/7, they don't care about you.

Corporations like Blizzard only response to money and harassment.

Apparently so well they were acting before any of this ever happened.

But then who would we blame? Crap, guess we left that part out.

[SodiumChloride]

Yeah, it's pretty surprising that some people thought sexy time when they saw that pose.

The human mind is wierd as fuck.

Says more about them than the artist who created the pose IMHO. LOL

[Archon14]

Agree 100% with the decision, it's totally unnecessary to oversexualize video game characters like that. If you want to look at a chick's ass remember there's always porn.

So why should a pose that's questionable by a minority be removed at all if you can watch porn instead? Why did you even look at her ass? All those examples can be countered by the same level of dumb examples, like the one I've written.

All these arguments are pointless. The most likely assumptions are that Blizzard probably wouldn't even bother with removing the pose if there wasn't any whining, and now that it's removed, a bunch of people like yourself that before this happened couldn't even give less of a shit about the poses, now come up with some excuses for no apparent reason. You want to defend Blizzard no matter what, or are you just supporting your sjw brothers?

[Lothrik]

People on both sides of this argument are acting like idiots. SJWs that can't handle sexuality, and anti-SJWs that can't handle Blizzard deciding to remove a stupid pose.

Both sides are literally complaining about something that would have taken up <0.1% of their time in Overwatch. Tracer's butt doesn't affect any of you.

[Archon14]

Both sides are literally complaining about something that would have taken up <0.1% of their time in Overwatch. Tracer's butt doesn't affect any of you.

Exactly. But the question remains, if they already added a pose to the game, why remove it now if it doesn't really matter? Why apologize for nothing?

[Lothrik]

Exactly. But the question remains, if they already added a pose to the game, why remove it now if it doesn't really matter? Why apologize for nothing?

Who cares? Do you really need everything in life explained? They made a decision, it's their game, and it doesn't affect you at all.

[Super Kami Dende]

Exactly. But the question remains, if they already added a pose to the game, why remove it now if it doesn't really matter? Why apologize for nothing?

Because "muh soggy knees". Apparently Sexy Women are toxic to the eyes of Human beings.

[Archon14]

Who cares? Do you really need everything in life explained? They made a decision, it's their game, and it doesn't affect you at all.

True, but it speaks about the game developers.

And now the official word is that "reason for removal wasn't that some people had an issue with it" and in the same statement they mention that "it did affect their decision". Wat?

[Eldar45]

A male character strikes this pose he is a badass, a female strikes this pose and shes somehow being sexualized? Double standards are... double?

[Ryme]

Who cares? Do you really need everything in life explained? They made a decision, it's their game, and it doesn't affect you at all.

It shows a direction of design philosophy some might find worthy of talking about, lo and behold, nearly 40 pages of it.