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If “comfort” is your only measure of what should or shouldn’t be in a game, that’s kind of a low bar.īut while I don’t agree with the wording of Kaplan’s explanation, I do fundamentally agree with the decision. And then of course you have people who are uncomfortable that Blizzard is removing a pose because someone else is uncomfortable. Or on the male side, I’m sure that someone, somewhere is offended by Reaper’s Mariachi costume. I guarantee someone is uncomfortable with those characters, but is that good enough reason to retool or remove them? Probably not. Perhaps about Tracer’s outfit altogether (you have a clear view of her skin-tight pants when trailing any team member into battle), or the mere existence of other somewhat sexualized characters like Widowmaker and D.Va. I’m sure there are plenty people with the potential to be even more offended than the player in question about aspects of Overwatch. That is a poor metric to use, by my estimation. Instead of saying “You’re right, this doesn’t fit with her character, thanks for bringing this up, we’ll remove it” he instead apologizes and says how they are sorry they made someone “uncomfortable.” I don’t take issue with it being cut now, but I don’t think Jeff Kaplan’s response is terribly helpful either. If I were working on the animation team, I probably would have cut this pose before it made it into the game for that reason. I would agree with the statement that this kind of pose is not really in keeping with what’s been presented as Tracer’s character, so far. It’s interesting that the original poster themselves brings up a point where they wouldn’t necessarily take issue with a pose like this for a character whose sexuality is more overt to begin with (Widowmaker actually has this exact same pose, which isn't getting removed). And you simply can’t say that for many female characters across media, this is not a traditionally sexualized pose. And yet, it’s pretty clear that in Tracer's case her bright, skin-tight pants obviously do call attention to one specific part of the body. They point to other characters in the game that have similar victory poses. One of the arguments for the pose is that just because a character is rear-facing, that shouldn’t mean it’s automatically sexual. But fine, let’s go with this, and analyze both sides.