First of all, I want to preface this: this is my opinion, trying to ban me won’t change that I’m just trying to have a discussion. I am totally fine with LGBTQ people in games and I understand that representation is important I just feel blizzard have gone above and beyond representation. If you disagree or have a counterpoint leave it in the comments.
So with the new Overwatch short, another hero is confirmed to be LGBTQ which I’m fine with. However, the way blizzard shows this makes me feel like they are just pandering to the LGBTQ community. They way they handle gay relations ships makes it stand out way more than straight relationships. I would be fine with the LGBTQ relationships if they were not the only ones really discussed.
I feel blizzard are exploiting LGBTQ people to try and get new followers to the game, and with my experience in the LGBTQ community, this kind of following is generally narrow-minded to the games actually quality and blindly follow it because of its “representation”. this, in my opinion, is a very scummy business practice that instead of selling overwatch as a game they sell it as a story, which it isn’t.
A big problem with this is that the people who join because of it won’t play the game very much and are not loyal fans for the game itself. although it might sell more copies I don’t think it will help the game overall. However, my main problem is that it’s a scummy thing to do (pandering) and shutting down discussion of it which I have seen on the forums already don’t change peoples’ opinions.
In summary, I don’t like how blizzard is exploiting LGBTQ peoples’ tendency to gravitate towards other LGBTQ things.
I agree with what you’re saying. I was feeling similar since this revelation too. I’m actually starting to feel alienated by this game as a straight Caucasian male. Diversity and representation for all kinds of different communities, LGBT, ethnicities etc is healthy and important but the game is being overwhelmed with what is starting to feel more like propaganda than simple diverse representation. It’s starting to feel forced for the sake of ticking boxes. The hero roster is becoming more about “labels” than anything else to the point it’s becoming quite comical now.
it is just a story…
If you dont care about story lines dont read/watch it.
I dont care about the heroes backline strories.
If they are villain or not.
What gender they are.
If they are fat (roadhog).
Not human.
What they like…
unbelievably childish, arrogant and self centred response, media has been aimed at straight white men for centuries you’ve got more than enough options out there, not to mention the straight men in this actual game too, to believe there’s an under-representation just because every single character isn’t straight is just pathetic
You are using a logical fallacy: appeal to ignorance. There is no proof that all heroes are not LGBT+. Therefore, everyone is LGBT+.
If you want to accuse blizzard for pandering to LGBT+ people, please prove it with actual LGBT+ realationship. Or shall I use the same logic as you do and accuse blizzard for pandering to the furry community because no hero has been confirmed to be not a furry yet?
This is a fine example of strawman…
You’re arguing something I didn’t point out and changing the subject.
I never stated anything about pandering to anyone.
Non of whom you listed are confirmed straight.
You’re assuming they’re straight based on their current relationship.
Sorry assumptions aren’t facts and your original comment seems as if you’re stating it as a fact.
Sorry that I have attacked a strawman. The reason I came to the assumption is that you refuted my objection against the argument that Blizzard is pandering to the LGBT+ community.
Then let’s make it factual and change the argument:
All mentioned heroes (except mercy) are cannonically s3xually attracted to the opposite gender.
Besides, why bothering about a person’s s3xuality? It is just a tool for character design. Heck, even tracer being homosexual was useful because it puts an emphasis of her character trait of absolute tolerance.
The reason why devs tell people that heroes are homosexual are because people were asking for it. No one asked whether x hero is heterosexual. Also, we know for a fact that most heroes are not part of the LGBT+ community because Jeff stated that only very few heroes are part of it.
I don’t think there’s an under representation of straight characters. I think that Blizzard are just desperate in holding onto their fans and so picked a character to be gay out of their roster to cater to modern demands.
I’ve no issue with him being gay. But to me, it just seemed a little forced and out of the blue…and also, kinda irrelevant. With all the issues going on with Blizzard right now, a characters sexuality just doesn’t matter to me and many other players. It doesn’t add anything meaningful to the game.
Hero balances, content, lore - all of these are much more important. There’s still so much we don’t know about the Overwatch universe as well as the history or even the future of what’s going to happen. We don’t know much about Talon other than a handful of members, we don’t know what Gabriel and Jack fought over - to the death even. All these things we don’t know that we want to know, we aren’t being told.
I’d have been happier if they just gave us a new character with new abilities, interesting game play who just happened to also be gay rather than just eenie meenie which one out of the roster they’re gonna throw that onto.
And let’s face it, Ashe is okay to play but even her story and role in the lore adds nothing to what was already there. Her story or goals just weren’t very interesting at all.
There are plenty of straight characters…but it doesn’t matter what their sexuality is, we want actual content.
Widowmaker was married to a man. So was Ana, she was married to Sam. Torbjorn has a wife and a dozen children, one of which we see. Genji is described as a playboy in his youth. The idea that there is a lack shows a lack of knowledge on the lore only, not a lack of representation. Many of the characters have tiny amounts of lore, little more. Solider was referenced to have a boyfriend, and a spray to show it. Widow has a spray showing her straight weddings, Torb has family photos, so does Pharah of her straight parents.