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So now we pretend to be autistic SJWs and complain about more poses and demand they be removed.

Either Blizzard cripples their own game like fucking retards, or they quickly realize that pandering to SJWs that will not pay for your game is not a legitimate business plan and undo the removal.

>>320388

>become the cancer

no thanks

>blizzard has the right to do or say whatever it wants

>blizzard can't ever choose to take the feedback from people i disagree with

pick one

better thread

>>>/ggrevolt/89100

>>320391

>opts not to provide a proper solution to the problem.

There's the door, asshole. Now get the fuck out.

>>320402

What haven't they throw a bitchfit about?

>>320399

complain that they removed it?

>>320386

Anyone notice the entire body positive mindset goes right out the window when the person is smaller than them?

>>320415

because sex neg and body pos some how work?

where did all the sex pos feminist go? Laci Greene used to even be one

>>320420

I don't know. I'm convinced that those retro glasses are actually alien facehuggers that attach to the brain through the temples, and hinder all critical thought.

>>320422

why now though? why zarya and overwatch changes and not any changes to Nova being sexualized as hell?

is Kaplan a cuck?

>>320407

Male rape victims. Marxism. Muslim terrorism.

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/search?a=Fipps%231715&page=1

Who is this "Fipps" user and are they an SJW?

Anyone know their actual name or social accounts on twitter or anything?

Seems there account is new and created like 3 days ago.

>>320428

>Fipps is a sock

Fipps is a acronym for a FTC filing

So what are the odds that Gawker wins the appeal? I was reading that the Trial Judge has a rather large number of repealed cases.

>>320430

Son of a bitch I posted in the wrong thread again. I need to stop keeping more than one tab open.

Feminism needs to be banned.

>

We'll replace the pose. We want *everyone* to feel strong and heroic in our community. The last thing we want to do is make someone feel uncomfortable, under-appreciated or misrepresented.

Sounds like it's time for the trolls to show up and pick all sorts of other random things that make them "uncomfortable" or "under-appreciated".

>>320443

I would love to follow this person and see if they even play the fucking game a month past launch. FUCK.

>>320464

How do we ID this guy? Has he used the forums in any other Blizzard games? Someone should be able to PalmDesert him and find him through battle.net friends of friends and peacefully track his user habits. I really want to see what this guy does long-term in Blizzard games. Probably a no-geared WoW casual that logs in once a month, or a Hearthstone shitter with no rank

>>320443

>David "oh God I wish I was Thomas Pynchon" Foster Wallace

Hipster confirmed.

Kinda wish I could say I'll boycott Blizzard over this, but meh, I haven't given Blizzard any money since their little "let's make people pay 3 times for the Starcraft 2 campaign" stunt.

Fuck 'em.

Honestly wanted to preorder the limited edition. Now I'm not sure if I want to buy it at all. I don't give a shit about the pose either way, I'm just mad that Blizzard is this fucking incompetent.

>>320506

Its been a slow bleed

>let shitty attention whoring community managers in your games

>cultivate a fan base of casual and dumb down content over time

>realease competitive games…there's a reason why HOTS is the worse moba out there..and it's not all the games fault. the player base is literally too dumb to play.

>now you are poisoned both in and out

Disclosure, Blizzard pays me to spotlight their games and some of the worse personalities i have ever dealt with have been blizzard public personalities

>>320510

they don't play shooters, Ghazi did a poll a long time back, shooters ranked last. Adventure scaefer games first and rpgs mid

Any skill based sjw avoid like the plague cause merit shouln't be a door in their mind

>>320511

>>320511

Figured they would only be interested in hipsterish indie games that appeal to them.

Which begs the question why aren't they focusing on improving their fav genre of games instead going after games they are unlikely to play.

>>320512

short answer "we are just having a conversation"

Long answer various reasons, one to appeal above the pale another to appeal in.

Sjw both hate geek culture yet want to say they have always been in it

>something happens

>people start to say, im not sure i like that

>a large section, if not majority of the community that supports the game and its development start to petition a change in the thing happening

>developers listen, weigh up the pros and cons and make a considered, thought out reply on what they intend to do about what is happening

This is how you run a company

>one person contradicts majority of the fanbase in one post

>director of the game says oh ok well change it

This is not.

I do not care about the pose in question. I wouldn't have used it myself. The issue here is how anything relating to sexism is now an instant response in favour of the one making the criticism. SJWs have unfair influence over content creators because of the political backlash that they manufacture, despite the fact that they were never going to spend a dime on the game anyway.

This has to end.

Lets not forget removing a pose is a much easier task than balancing 21 heroes with 2 to come

Zenyatta is in "fuck my life up fam" mode balance wise and there's really only one viable healer

>>320512

Because they don't want to have fun, they just want to ruin other people's fun.

>>320443

I highly doubt it's a member of the band.

If anything, I'm angry that a piece of human waste like this knows about a pretty alright band like them.

The crybullies will never ever be happy

you remove a pose, they will ask for skins, you remove skins, they will ask for character redesigns, you redesign a character…they will ask where the trans black obese jewish character is

in any of the above cases…caving will not get them to buy the game

also tracer is 26 years old, a man just said that 26 year olds have no agency because their women..but it's ok cause he's on "the right side"

>>320568

>agency

a buzzword that, one of 20 or so that when uttered, alerts you that the other person is not worth listening to at all.

>>32057

Revolt detected.

are we doing this again?

I remember back in the day how mad you guys got when someone said "tone policing" in response to being told boycotts are dumb

I disagree about the boycots but it was still amusing that words got you so upset

>>320566

Wasn't this being said before with that one big butch of a character was announced?

A boycott is the last fucking answer. Particularly at this juncture.

Kaplan is spineless, if overwatch fails where does that put Blizzard? Legion won't get five million people back, it will sell well but then everyone will leave again after a month.

Diablo 3 expansion?

LOTV didn't do well, what does Blizzard actually have left?

Hearthstone is the only franchise that is doing extremely well, HOTS just got people laid off.

>>320594

>>320596

So you're willing to kill a company over one pose?

>>320598

I am not doing anything, simply pointing out a series of bad moves by blizzard.

HOTS was a total disaster

blizzard made nfs the run best game I played ever.

sjws can get massively raped by isis supporting muslims they hold so dear.

>>320598

>So you're willing to kill a company over one pose?

You sound like one of those people who think GG is a hate movement because a few people said some mean things.

Last I checked, even in this very thread it's been pointed out that this isn't "over one pose" it's about them caving to SJW's to change a game AFTER people have already preordered it.

I agree with >>320566 they aren't going to get my money. They have chosen the market they want to appeal to, and it sure ain't me. They can have their SJW's and see how many actually buy their game.

>>320616

Also, if this is all it takes to "kill" a company then they have already fucked themselves up.

>>320623

like i said evry franchise of blizzard could take a hit and hearthstone would still keep them afloat but catering to crybullies on a brand new franchise (with mutiple games planned) is downright retard

>>320395

Fuck off Revoltard.

What is the plan of action guys? Can we just tweet this video to the guy who made the decision? I want to just try talking sense to him directly. Can that be a thing?

>>320628

plan thus far

>who is flipps? we know he's not a mom i doubt he even has a daughter. expose him

>double standard call outs

>mass censorship call outs

The reason why I'm not buying overwatch is because Blizzard deliberately put gamers into a position where the only way to stop this bullshit is to stop giving them money.

I mean even notch is weighing in on this, for fuck sakes. How many times do gamers have to tell companies that they don't want sjw crapola?

This is like the xbox one launch all over again, where mircosoft ignored the massive gamer outcry until after the tide turned to the ps4. Only then they started scrambling.

If gamers can hurt microsoft's bottom line, they can do it to any company, including Blizzard.

>>320598

I'm willing to kill a company over Diablo III

Gonna throw in my 2 cents regarding the Tracer change.

>1 - Fuck Fipps. That argument was terrible.

That out of the way, after reading the thread, and the reaction afterwards. I'm willing to give Kaplan the benefit of the doubt for a couple reasons.

>It seems the community holds Kaplan in high regards for being very active and transparent on the forums.

>The Over the Shoulder pose was shared by 4 characters, so it's kind of generic

What I think happened is Kaplan was a moron and decided to announce a change the team already had in the works, on Fipps' thread after seeing Fipps talk about that exact change without reading anything but Fipps' post.

>>320658

Fipps isn't even a regular forum poster he literally went there just to bitch about a pose.

>>320628

> I want to just try talking sense to him directly. Can that be a thing?

there is no explaining shit to this guy. His ego from his EQ days only grew going from WoW development on to an all new IP that he identifies as his. The only thing you can offer him is virtuous GOOD BOY POINTS™ and he already acted once for them in this scenario, he won't double-dip even if he was wrong and realizes it later. He is effectively unreachable at this point, other than mass cancellations a la Disrespectful Nod.

>>320658

>What I think happened is Kaplan was a moron and decided to announce a change the team already had in the works, on Fipps' thread after seeing Fipps talk about that exact change without reading anything but Fipps' post.

Yeah, I'm willing to believe him when he says they were already planning on changing it.

But that's the very thing. If they had simply changed it, nobody would have given a fuck. Instead he had to go and use the opportunity to virtue-signal as hard as he could, making very clear to whom Blizzard is pandering to these days.

Now they're reaping what they've sown.

Anybody interested in asking them to remove the guns from their game too? See how it goes? I'm sure they don't want anyone to feel "uncomfortable".

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/708/952/914/activision-blizzard-please-remove-guns-from-your-game-%22overwatch.%22/

(mild shitposting, too funny not to share)

>>320393

>you should never criticize whatever other people or associations choose to do

That's not how the meme market goes anon.

>>320388

Never be the cancer fag and never be the one that gets caught in the crossfire. Instead, ask yourself how to start the fire.

https://archive.is/XUtpT

This guy here >>320567 get's it. Pandering to a niche demanding public that won't buy your game is expensive. You could do so much better with aggressive advertising a-la Protein World. And well, look at this >>320909

>>320598

…

>>320942

how autistic are you to use … as a response?

>>320887

funny thing is this.

1: 4 other characters have similar poses.

2: The person that started the clusterfuck in the postings NEVER posted in Overwatch before.

3: The pose was quickly removed.

You think Blizzard might have done all this for cheap heat? I mean controversy sells as much as PR.

>>320970

Could you put up a link to her twitter? You know, to make sure.

>>320393

SJW found.

>>320959

They in no uncertain words admitted that they're sjw cucks that already found the pose problematic themselves and wanted to replace it with a different one they had made but were too chicken-shit to do it themselves until someone from the community stepped up to say "I don't like this."

>>320979

>from the community

Uh-huh.

It would be hilarious if the diggers found out that Fipps was one of the Blizz people working on Overwatch, though.

>>321014

Being called "Oversensitive" by some mayonnaise-gendered otherkin on deviantart… What is psychological projection again?

That's as stereotypical as a riot of niggers (a group of baboons is a "troop" and gathering of niggers is a "riot") sitting on their porch, eating fried chicken and watermelon, and drinking malt liquor, playing dominoes while waiting for the mailman to deliver the welfare checks.

>>321014

>triggered by "triggered" jokes

>while saying other people are being too sensitive

Hypocrisy and double standards are the calling card of SJWs.

>>320952

I think I might have to check that game out. Thanks.

>>320420

> lacy green

> sex positive

The thing is, they're only pro female sexuality. They still think that men enjoying female sexuality is wrong.

>>320959

That is exactly what I think

>>320512

Lower the bar of your competition and you don't look as bad

just lowering standards everywhere

art, music, beauty, academia, health, workplace, journalism, politics…

>>320386

Even a japanese game site made an article about that.

Here the original and the translated by GG.

批判を鵜呑みにし続ける現状に未来はない、地獄へと突き進み始めたゲーム業界

http://damonge.com/p=16208

Translation: There’s No Future in the Current Environment Where Criticism is Swallowed Down Without Any Skepticism, The Game Industry Has Started to Fall Down the Path to Hell

https://karasucorps.wordpress.com/2016/04/05/translation-theres-no-future-in-the-current-environment-where-criticism-is-swallowed-down-without-any-skepticism-the-game-industry-has-started-to-fall-down-the-path-to-hell/

>>321252

Good. I hope the Japs can realize how dire the western video game industry is and start complaining. Imagine if they could pressure, say, Nintendo into not hiring any more Alison Rapps.

>>321319

KEK

the new pose still prominently shows her butt and makes it more sexual in nature! at this point Blizzard is trolling them for complaining in the first place.

>>321335

Actually, they're trying to save saying "nu-uh, it totally wasn't about the butt, the pose just didn't fit her character!"

Disregarding, of course, the fact that the David Foster Wallace-reading hipster mangina who kicked this whole thing off made a point of specifically complaining about the original "sexualizing" the character.

>>320512

>Which begs the question why aren't they focusing on improving their fav genre of games instead going after games they are unlikely to play.

For the same reason you see tumblrinas ranting on fat shaming, instead of promoting healthier eating and lifestyles for those who don't have an actual medical excuse to be overweight. When you have a problem of your own doing, you get two options:

1) focus on improving yourself

or 2) go after others and say they're the problem

SJWs almost always choose number 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neRgpnqyYGk

>>321365

Its amazing how far you nerds will go to try avoid admitting you over reacted to a pose in a videogame. Just fap to the new pose like you want to already.

>>321380

If I were told that this was all an overwrought April Fools gag, I'd be halfway inclined to believe it.

>>321382

I doubt it was April Fools. I wager this was more a controversy generator for cheaply getting eyeballs on their product.

Sex Sells, but in this age of Outrage Culture Controversy generates more $$$. It's a sad fact of this decade that people profit off of Drama no matter which side they take.

Some even don't take a side. They just rake it in. Sometimes they even start it themselves and generate their own backlash.

>>321319

SJWs BTFO

WE DID IT /GG/

>>321377

Yeah, how about we go look at the post which started all this, shall we?

>WHAT? What about this pose has anything to do with the character you're building in tracer? It's not fun, its not silly, it has nothing to do with being a fast elite killer. It just reduces tracer to another bland female sex symbol.

>We aren't looking at a widowmaker pose here, this isn't a character who is in part defined by flaunting her sexuality. This pose says to the player base, oh we've got all these cool diverse characters, but at any moment we are willing to reduce them to sex symbols to help boost our investment game.

Emphasis mine.

But no, you're right Ghazi, it had nothing to do with her ass and "sexualization".

Interview with Immamoonkin, female gamer and GamerGoy censored on Blizzard forums for criticizing removal of Overwatch pose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xf1Ju7wHdc

>>321377

>anti-Gamers overreact to a pose

>Gamers display their normal, typical reaction to Puritanical censorship

>anti-Gamers accuse them of overreacting

It would be hysterical if the mainstream media didn't take them seriously and hold them up to be correct

>>321377

>overreacted

notice how we didn't sperg out about her pose being too hot2handle.

>>321500

*2hot2handle

>>321484

>It would be hysterical if the mainstream media didn't take them seriously and hold them up to be correct

How can there still be people here so fucking bluepilled with /pol/ as the top board?

>>321511

If you don't like it, you're welcome to go back to /pol/.

>>321484

>Gamers display their normal, typical reaction to Puritanical censorship

Which was to freak out and resort to twitter harrassment, threats to cancel pre-orders, and blindly accuse their "oppressors" of "ruining" "yet another game" in the ongoing "war" against all SJWs everywhere?

Most gamers didn't give a shit either way. Blizzard never caved, almost in spite of the title in this very thread. You overreacted, and now look like and even larger group of tools than you did a year ago. I guess the real question now is when someone will start another thread on this mostly dead board where the last dozen of you start patting yourselves on the back for another "victory" you didn't even work for and were even actively wishing the company responsible for it to go out of business, all over a piece of polygonal ass.

>>321520

Making up shit doesn't help your argument.

>>321522

If you're referring to the "Most gamers didn't give a shit either way", it's as truthful as the "freak out and resort to twitter harrassment, threats to cancel pre-orders, and blindly accuse their "oppressors" of "ruining" "yet another game" in the ongoing "war" against all SJWs everywhere" part.

>>321523

Glad you can admit your post was nothing but lies.

>>321525

>lies

Okay, so show me how most gamers actually care one way or another about your cause. Seeing as how torrential downpour was a hilarious misfire at best, you were dead wrong about blizzard "caving" to SJWs, and your biggest successes have completely failed to change the direction the industry is headed in, particularly in the games journalism thing (ostensibly one of the core reasons gamergate pretended to band itself around), I'm not seeing how I lied there.

As for people threatening to cancel their preorders over western anime ass, it happened on the actual overwatch boards, among other things.

Now, in your typical fashion, you will ignore everything that doesn't agree with the narrative you are trying to form, just like the SJWs you claim to be rallying against. You are just as wrapped up in outrage culture as the people you're "fighting". Thankfully, most gamers never wanted you to be their shield or their representative in the first place, they're too busy with actually playing games and having lives of their own separate from the horde mentality you believe defines everyone and everything.

But I'm glad you can admit you don't actually have anything to counter what I've said.

>>321526

Why do I have to show you anything? You're the one who came in here making absurd, unsupported assertions. Burden of proof is on you.

>>321527

>unsupported assertions

From one of your own kind

http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2016/03/overwatch-fans-angry-that-blizzard-censored-tracer-due-to-sjws/

An entire blog of butthurt over a fictional butt that never got removed from the game. It includes people threatening to cancel preorders, twitter harrassment rallying calls, and the usual "SJWS ARE RUININ' MUH VIDYER GAEM" screeching you've all become so fond of.

If you didn't oppose SJWs over videogames, you faggots would get along just fine. You'd hang out, tip fedoras at eachother, and rave about new ways to get ass devastated every time someone disagrees with you or does something you can claim to get triggered by.

>>321600

[ ] not rekt

[X] REKT

>>321600

Really is just sweet irony.

>>321600

I thought it was only one person complaining, Blizzard following only that sole complaint and shutting out the rest of the opinions and SJWs nodding in agreement during the whole time.

This was before the new pose was revealed.

>>321600

I am not buying it. This feels like a cop-out at best. They didn't troll anyone, they got cold feet after seeing the OVERWHELMING shitstorm they started so now they're backpedalling.

If there's proof to the contrary I'd love to see it but until then they can go get fucked. This isn't about the pose it's about principle. Blizzard already caved to SJWs with "Tyrande's Silence".