New pose for Tracer #ButtGate

[Captain Marvelous_v1legacy]

This gate thing needs to die in a fire, in the middle of a hurricane, during a planetary bombardment. Or maybe someone can just push it off a cliff or something. It really needs to go away.

 

[Supernova1138]

This gate thing needs to die in a fire, in the middle of a hurricane, during a planetary bombardment. Or maybe someone can just push it off a cliff or something. It really needs to go away.

Very well, henceforth every internet controversy will have the 'ghazi' suffix applied to it instead. The 'gate' suffix will be retired for the next few decades, only to return if there isn't a sufficiently big scandal during that time that can be turned into a new scandal related suffix. Or maybe we can go retro and do what everyone did before Watergate and call everything an 'affair' or a 'crisis'.

 

[Fox12]

Oh my God Blizzard, just make up your mind already : P

I like the new pose, it's more playful.

 

[wulf3n]

Hell, the post didn't even mention the butt.

The first post no, but later clarifications on page 3 [http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20743015583?page=3] by Fipps:

I think my argument is that a butt shot for tracer doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and undermines a lot of the great work the team is doing across the board.

 

[IceForce]

Looks like my SJW brethren are going to have to try harder to take away everyone's video games butts.

 

[Barbas]

Keep your posts on-topic, please.

 

[Something Amyss]

Well, it still looks fucking dumb compared to the one on the left. But I guess dumb is fitting for such a character.

Well, a pinup from WW2 pose seems to fit her wartime memes.

I don't know, part of the problem is I have trouble caring in the first place. This whole "controversy" was mostly just funny, and as someone who wasn't going to play the game anyway I didn't really care if they had her trotting around a stripper pole.

 

[DoPo]

Well, it still looks fucking dumb compared to the one on the left. But I guess dumb is fitting for such a character.

Well, a pinup from WW2 pose seems to fit her wartime memes.

I don't know, part of the problem is I have trouble caring in the first place. This whole "controversy" was mostly just funny, and as someone who wasn't going to play the game anyway I didn't really care if they had her trotting around a stripper pole.

WAS there ever a real controversy? Did Blizzard ever say that they were changing this because of a single forum post? I think it's more likely that this is just what it looks like when the GG-SJW's are offended.

Some guy made a forum post [http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20743015583#1] in which he said that the pose didn't fit Tracer's character. A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE got their panties in a twist over it and started slagging him off for DARING to suggest it. 11 pages later a Blizzard employee commented [http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20743015583?page=11#210] that the pose would be removed, which lead to A WHOLE LOT MORE PEOPLE taking issue with that, as well. Blizzard had to clarify that they were sort of looking to replace the pose anyway. Which lead to A. WHOLE. LOT. MORE. people throwing a hissy fit over Blizzard's actions.

Yes, there is somebody who is offended. I have no idea if it's es-jay-dubyas because I don't know what that is. I've mentioned before - it seems it's just a shorthand for "the people I don't side with", so without knowing who you don't side with, I've no clue if you're correct or not. GG is even worse. I tried getting my head around it and...then just dropped it. Nobody seems to be clear on what/who GG and anti-GG are. It seems that even diffrent people on "the same team" have different ideas what their team and the other team are about. I've just stopped bothering. So, take that as you will.

 

[Something Amyss]

WAS there ever a real controversy? Did Blizzard ever say that they were changing this because of a single forum post? I think it's more likely that this is just what it looks like when the GG-SJW's are offended.

Note the scare quotes around "controversy." "Nontroversy" might be better diction, but the quotes should indicate I don't believe it's a real controversy. However, I was referencing the response, not the original comment. The one that you attribute to people being offended. It looks like another case of manufactured outrage to me, and maybe one of the worst I've seen in gaming. I was actually a little surprised to find out this actually traced back to one person who was utterly polite.

I've learned to expect to be underwhelmed, but I think this may have been a new high watermark for "controversies." Probably not helped by the way gaming media inserted things into their reporting that didn't exist in the original argument.