It's not a "gate." This is nothing like Watergate. It's a controversy (albeit a silly one). Not everything that causes an argument needs the suffix gate.
Blizzard wasn't censored. A game in development got changed. People working on it were already wary about it, and someone pointing a finger saying "this is weird," a developer agreeing "yep, we thought so to" and then editing the game isn't censorship. It's validation for the creative teams feelings. The internet doesn't have the bible of every character's arc, background, and motivations. Blizzard's likely still writing it through this process.
Now, a cosplayer hired by Blizzard striking it at the event just seems weird. Yeah, I get wanting to do whatever poses you want to in costume, but it just isn't the best time. In addition, it doesn't show anything additional. We already know the pose looks good on Tracer's model and costume - it was already in engine and animated. But one ten second clip of a cosplayer != the sum total of the characters actions and motivations.
Blizzard's likely in the final pages of deciding how they want to present their characters. Every aspect builds to that. Undermining your bosses effort to clarify the character you dress as seems disingenuous, imo. Weird place and time to protest.
Or the actor was told to do that by Blizzard to bring more attention to the surrounding event, using a wave of idotic controversy to generate more interest in HotS and Overwatch simultaneously. Would also serve as a nice end note - those complaining an unreleased game got changed thing they won, anyone else just doesn't care what.
Blizzard wasn't censored. A game in development got changed. People working on it were already wary about it, and someone pointing a finger saying "this is weird," a developer agreeing "yep, we thought so to" and then editing the game isn't censorship. It's validation for the creative teams feelings. The internet doesn't have the bible of every character's arc, background, and motivations. Blizzard's likely still writing it through this process.
Now, a cosplayer hired by Blizzard striking it at the event just seems weird. Yeah, I get wanting to do whatever poses you want to in costume, but it just isn't the best time. In addition, it doesn't show anything additional. We already know the pose looks good on Tracer's model and costume - it was already in engine and animated. But one ten second clip of a cosplayer != the sum total of the characters actions and motivations.
Blizzard's likely in the final pages of deciding how they want to present their characters. Every aspect builds to that. Undermining your bosses effort to clarify the character you dress as seems disingenuous, imo. Weird place and time to protest.
Or the actor was told to do that by Blizzard to bring more attention to the surrounding event, using a wave of idotic controversy to generate more interest in HotS and Overwatch simultaneously. Would also serve as a nice end note - those complaining an unreleased game got changed thing they won, anyone else just doesn't care what.
Aw man, it's as if surrounding context was the entire point of the initial complaint and pose removal. It's almost like taking things out of context can cause misrepresentations of the intended purpose. But, surely every time a character's ass has ever been on camera has the exact same intended purpose. /sCritialGaming said:
