Which is why they should have used the new name as an internal name for themselves without also forcing everyone else to put up with it.
I think you’re failing to understand that Jesse McCree is alive and the people he hurt and affected are still working at blizzard too.
Butch Cassidy is dead. He died centuries ago. Everybody he hurt and affected is dead. He has no lasting or immediate effect on anybody.
Jesse McCree hurt people and it’s a current issue.
That’s a pretty big difference between the 2
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You aren’t being forced to put up with it.
If it bothers you that much you can not play.
Or you can like just call him McCree anyway and absolutely nothing will change in your life.
Nobody is saying you can’t keep calling him that.
But his name has been changed by the dev team for the Dev team.
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If they use it internally only they still have to input the changes as “McCree”
I can ignore the name change and keep calling him McCree, but that doesn’t mean I’m not dealing with the change, it means I choose that particular way to deal with it.
Not being forced to put up with it would mean I’d still read the name McCree in game and hear the voicelines referring to him as such, but instead I’ll read Cassidy and I’ll hear new voicelines calling him Cassidy. Of course it’s an insignificant thing, but saying it’s not being forced on us is simply false.
If anything you could say we’re not being forced to accept the change or be fine with it, which is completely true, but it’s still a change we’re going to have in our games that’s not intended for us and we didn’t ask for.
Unless we the community are suddenly the dev team, of course.
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https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/overwatch/t/cole-cassidy…-i-love-it/638393/26
Is what got linked earlier
Thanks for being reasonable in your reply. I agree it’s a lesser issue but thematically is the same problem which does beg the question why didn’t they just go name neutral.
I think it was reasonable to infer that Cassidy was either referring to Butch Cassidy or Hopalong Cassidy (who’s name is also inspired by Butch Cassidy but would be a dramatically different character to base someone off of). Cassidy was never gonna be a random name in the context of a cowboy character anymore than naming your politician character Lincoln or Nixon would be free from association.
The concept of being able to have as an example murderers as ‘the good guys’ (which realistically Blackwatch is) does seem more extreme than for example sexual harassment (not that it isn’t a major problem). That said I think the major difference is black watch isn’t real, the people black watch killed didn’t exist or have families, etc. Violence in video games is a main stay but I think any issue will have a different look if it’s inspired by real world events. Cloud can destroy a reactor with no hurt feelings, but if he ran a plane into a pair of buildings (even were they empty) it might have different reactions.
All’s that is a long way to say I think it’s fair to criticize their decision here and I find the very straight divide in opinion after the change pretty instructive