Haerthan said:
Ok one thing we gotta clarify here: BLIZZARD SAID IT WANTED TO BE DIVERSE AND THAT IT WAS OPEN TO CRITICISM. They received said criticism and acted on it. Is it that fucking hard to get that? Seriously? Christ the schooling system outside of Europe and Far East Asia seems to be fucking failing if reading comprehension isn't taught anymore.
Also last I checked the criticism sent to Blizzard was pretty much respectful. Oh and criticizing after the Alpha? After most of the development is more or less done? Yea good job buddy. You criticize when it is in development so that the BS and bugs don't make it Anthe final product. That is how criticism works. Oh yea the bodies are diverse FOR THE MALES. OTherwise for the women it was the same thin supermodel with exxagerated hips. So yea people criticized it, Blizzard listened.
And congratulations: you don't like some of the designs. Except for Pharah, who has the body type of a supermodel, except in armour. Way to prove your not being pandered to buddy, since you still like some of the designs. But when people criticize other people for better designs : OH SJWs aren't happy. Oh they will take a mile if you give them a finger. And on and on and on. Guess what buddy. Nobody is coming to take away your games (except maybe ISIS/ISIL?IS), nobody is condemning you for playing videogames (but for HARASSMENT, if you do that shit) and gaming is now mainstream, where the industry is making BILLIONS. The "ideological crusade" is nothing more then other people asking for better representation, instead of just playing the same "grizzled white male who gargles rocks".
And I am seriously tired of being respectful. The Escapist is going down the shitter ever since GG started, Archon is hiring people who at best wouldn't have a job in the real world (gaming journalism, what a joke, always has been always will be) and most of the talent that kept me here is gone. And Yahtzee, well you know how it is, too much of a good thing can spoil. Although the Escapist done goofed when they cancelled the Rhymedown and Uncivil War. Seriously their biggest moneymakers collaborated and made awesome shit.
Dude, you seriously have an axe to grind for some reason, who is the one using all-caps and complaining about GG in here, a thread made about a character that has nothing to do with a consumer revolt/movement/hategroup/whateveryouhavetocallitthisweek?
Not everyone that talks out against this kind of stuff has anything to do with GG, so chill and realize that not everyone that has a differing opinion to your own is some kind of ulta-conservative-archaic-writings-subscriber dudebro that wants to keep women in caves fit with a kitchen and everything else it takes to make sandwiches. Honestly, people complain that it's always GG bringing GG into random topics, and not the people that don't like it.
And seriously, they said they were open to criticism, not the plethora of hate they got when they released these things from twitter, tumblr, and even here. And that's the majority of what I saw as masquerading as "criticism", complaining, whining, and general all around negativity without any positivity or solutions.
Now, onto the actual important parts of discussion in your post. Yeah, the U.S. public schooling system has alot of crap, and university is way too highly valued and pushed, and teachers are increasingly more worried about test scores that were heavily pushed by many liberal institutions than teaching kids.
Have you ever watched a game like this come from development into playability? Because the way you're explaining these things really seems to suggest you haven't. LoL is continually pumping out new characters(Dota porting and updating) that impact the game in different ways and with different body designs with - for the most part - gorgeous splashes and mostly unique models in-game. Overwatch is going to be the same way from my understanding, it will never officially come out until Blizzard either gets bored and moves on or goes under and the game servers go offline. Characters will continue to come out, but people threw fits over this junk before it even started and that's what I have a problem with.
And seriously, you clipped out the part of my post explaining exactly why I liked Pharah for that gotcha moment, but here's why I like Pharah again, it has nothing to do with her body-type, and all about dat armor you so casually toss aside. She's obviously Gatchaman-inspired, and I like that.
