Tracer confirmed first LGBT character

[Immitis]

You may want to check your sources again. Japanese are the least "homophobic" people i know, especially in fictional content.
In case you want prove just search yaoi or yuri.

lol i really hope you arent serious

[Overlord Fordragon]

Feels forced and is pointless from the games perspective, hopefully it keeps the crowd shut up for a while / indefinetly though

[Sliske]

i dunno about FIRST gay character in games ... ciri in witcher was gay...she was gay in book and there was option to state she is gay in a mission in witcher 3!

didnt know ciri was in Overwatch.

Does she keep her abilities from Witcher 3?

Not sure how the legal process went on that. I guess Blizzard must've bought her from CDPR

read the fucking thread's section

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Feels forced and is pointless from the games perspective, hopefully it keeps the crowd shut up for a while / indefinetly though

the fact that people are calling this a "christmas gift" tells me they are so fanatical, you won't ever shut them the fuck up.

The vigilance of a SJW does not stop, it does not waiver.

[Stormcall]

Okay, can some of the lore buffs clue me in? Don't care about the lesbian thing either way, but I thought Tracer was like, out of sync with time, and that's how she gets her abilities. But to keep from phasing out of time, she had to wear that Chronal chest harness thing Winston built, right? But...she's definitely not wearing the chest harness thing while kissing the other chick, so...did they cure her time issues, or did they just forget the lore here?

[Jessicka]

Okay, can some of the lore buffs clue me in? Don't care about the lesbian thing either way, but I thought Tracer was like, out of sync with time, and that's how she gets her abilities. But to keep from phasing out of time, she had to wear that Chronal chest harness thing Winston built, right? But...she's definitely not wearing the chest harness thing while kissing the other chick, so...did they cure her time issues, or did they just forget the lore here?

https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/over...ic/17614623119

She just needs to be near it according to this blue post.

[Dug]

Okay, can some of the lore buffs clue me in? Don't care about the lesbian thing either way, but I thought Tracer was like, out of sync with time, and that's how she gets her abilities. But to keep from phasing out of time, she had to wear that Chronal chest harness thing Winston built, right? But...she's definitely not wearing the chest harness thing while kissing the other chick, so...did they cure her time issues, or did they just forget the lore here?

Haven't seen any blue posts confirming or denying but I want to say it was a mistake on the artists part. But maybe she's got that tony stark thing going on and Winston made a small version that was surgically implanted? Up in the air atm

First thing that stood out to me too when I read the comic. Hopefully Blizz clears it up.

Edit: I stand corrected above

[Strangebrew]

[Naxere]

Shoulda been Zarya.

[Deleted]

But what I don't care for is making everything "LGBT friendly" It's a fucking shooting game. Why do we have to make characters gay? I just don't see a point that's all.

Because having just character that doesnt have any lore, no background, no relationships build around her feels 1-dimensional.
Just bunch of polygons with a gun or two.

Its like having Gul'dan be "just there" and evil with no explaining his relationship with Nightborne, legion leaders, Orcs.
At least blizzard puts some effort to lore and character backgrounds still.

[Stormcall]

https://eu.battle.net/forums/en/over...ic/17614623119

She just needs to be near it according to this blue post.

Ahh, okay. Glad to see they acknowledge it and it wasn't just some error.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

Ah, but there is a limited number of gay characters they can actually have. While a common misconception that one in four individuals identify as lesbian or gay the actual number is probably around 4 or 5%. That leaves a rather slim margin with 23 heroes. Naturally there would be some room for error with the characters being a specific group but it would be unlikely for more than 3 characters, 4 if they want to ship a gay /bi male romance and a transgender individual. Two lesbians would be pushing it if they want to be all-inclusive.
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...gbt-population

Now having said that I do hope that Roadhog and Junkrat are more than friends.

True, but that would seem to be rather disingenuous of them to simply dodge a gay male character. Quite frankly, I feel that it would be much harder to implement and I hope Blizzard is up to the challenge.

Also please don't make Junkrat and Roadhog a thing. It's a bromance, keep it that way

Can I hope that it's Winston? Would that be wrong?

Well I don't know if we can even consider him to be realistic in that regard. I always considered Winston to be asexual, for some reasons.

[Life-Binder]

they should do this for WoW

lesbian Liadrin maybe

or bi Jaina/Sylvanas

[Jessicka]

they should do this for WoW

lesbian Liadrin maybe

or bi Jaina/Sylvanas

The Enchanting storyline in Legion has you rescue and redeem the Enchantress's Priestess lover. Or are you meaning for a major lore character?

[Deleted]

Hmm, will this change how i play the game?
*thinks "long and hard"*

no , no it won't... moving on!

[Coombs]

The problem with Tracer isn't that she's an insufferable cunt when played, or that she is now confirmed to enjoy vagina, it's that her feet are fucking massive! Look at those things!

[caervek]

Kind of comical that after changing her poses back when she was hedrosexual to avoid sexualizing her they then later choose to sexualise her for their publicity stunt lol XD

[LongJohn]

it's a game, this does not matter.

[caervek]

they should do this for WoW

Back in Vanilla Chromie was originally a male dragon with a female humanoid avatar but they retconned it.

[Kryos]

A fictional character is just pixels and has no sexual orientation. This is just Blizzard telling people that it's ok
in their view to be LGBT. Nothing more.

[Immitis]

Hmm, will this change how i play the game?
*thinks "long and hard"*

no , no it won't... moving on!

neither does winston being from the moon