Naldan said:
Remember when creatives didn't contradict themselves from statement to statement, including releases of something?
OK, me neither, but I find this ridiculous. How anything of them has any credibility anymore is beyond me regarding creative content.
BX3 said:
It was a huge PR stunt.
I don't know about anybody else, but the wafting smell of bullshit imitating from the story was why I detested it in the first place. They NEVER gave a damn about how the apparent sexiness of it. This new pose doesn't really change anything as far as my feelings toward Blizzard are concerned. But I will admit... this pose is cuter than the last one.
reciprocal said:
I'm sorry but the first response from Kaplan was an apology and a promise to remove the pose to sate a poster who thought that the pose was too sexy for Tracer. Blizzard may not have thought the pose itself was too sexy and were likely going to replace it, but they APOLOGISED to the poster and removed the pose RELATIVELY QUICKLY. Show me where another poster has gotten such a response.
I'm withholding judgement until I see Blizzard's response when someone else complain about this pose or other poses. Heck, I'll wait and see if a technical complaint gets a similar response.
I challenge all of you to find where Blizzard actually said the pose was too sexy?
They were looking for a reason to remove it since the beginning. They seemed to regret putting the pose in since the beginning.
As the game director, I have final creative say over what does or does not go into the game. With this particular decision, it was an easy one to make?not just for me, but for the art team as well. We actually already have an alternate pose that we love and we feel speaks more to the character of Tracer. We weren?t entirely happy with the original pose, it was always one that we wrestled with creatively.
This is the statement from Kaplan. The art team were on the wall about this pose. They weren't overly satisfied with it from the beginning.
They never thought it was too sexy, they just used the complaint as an excuse to remove it.
Kaplan's vague initial statement of:
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.
Apologies and we'll continue to try to do better.
was literally just politeness. Believe it or not, when you're representing a company, you HAVE TO BE NICE.