Define tokenization for me if you would
Go look it up on google. I’m not getting into a political argument with you on the forums.
There are most certainly a whole bunch of employees who do care, while the company “as a whole” most certainly doesn’t.
But in the end it doesn’t really matter.
I don’t buy a product because the company producing the product paints it’s logo in rainbow colors.
But them doing so still helps to normalize the topic and can possibly lead to a wider acceptance on the long term - no matter what the initial intention was.
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What? Am I suppose to mirror your thinking? Good luck with that.
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Imagine being this afraid of posting your opinion on a random internet forum
They’re changing the game… probably for OW2… we’ll see how that goes. We are never going back to OW1 getting regular updates and balance meant for modes and compositions that will never exist again.
You probably should just resign yourself to that.
In what way is spreading some awareness even by matter of controversy worse than straight up silence?
It’s important to remember that while it’s likely the heads and management are complicit and don’t care, I’m sure there are at least some workers and people pushing these programs within the company who actually care. It’s not an all or nothing thing.
Well yes. but motives aren’t always everything to the result.
Yep.
Blizzard? Prob not any more than any other company as a whole
OW team? Absolutely. I can’t think of any other game with as many well known/liked LGBT characters in lore as Overwatch
What are you talking about?
I couldn’t care one way or the other.
It’s clear hey have used the lgbt groups for their own gain when they couldn’t care less in reality.
What’s your deal?
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Not in the way to be desired.
It’s hard to tell if a company is genuine and not just finding ways to increase profits/expand market.
Sure they may put on the Pride Flag but will they immediately take it down at the end of Pride Month? Or how about Nations that ban/persecute Pride Communities? Will they continue to do business with these nations or heavily censor/modify displays of Pride?
To me a company that does nothing all year and suddenly hops on social media to gain clout while their actions state otherwise (in Blizzards case: Bending to the chinese government and censoring Free Hong Kong and the current controversy) tells me they don’t care about anything unless its marketable.
Your inability to answer a simple question. I just want to know precisely what Blizzard has done that you consider tokenization
Andy has already stated the name change was primarily for the OW team itself, not for woke points or damage control, because they wanted to move on and disconnect themselves from the abuse and controversies which they had no part of or connection to besides a hero name
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Did you completely miss everything that has happened with the company the past year? You honestly think they care? That’s tokenization to a T
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Adding a rainbow flag icon? I want specifics.
I don’t think you even understand what you’re arguing.
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Honestly, if their awareness for normal people will at worst bring resentment to the LGBT community and at best have people not care, why would you want it? Has Blizzard done anything for LGBT awareness to prove that they are worthy of plastering their rainbow Blizzard batch every Overwatch update? It just makes me cringe seeing how hard they are trying and doing no actions at all, and I feel like most people can agree with that. How does this positively help the LGBT community? Just because they are saying ‘hey guys, LGBT community exists.’ They can’t even keep their female employees happy, I cant imagine how they treat trans employees.
No, you just accuse Blizzard of tokenization but don’t know or refuse to say how
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Oh ok I’m stupid now. Very cool.
Go complain elsewhere I’m done with whatever nonsense you’re on about.
Yeah, I ask for one thing to back up what you claim and 35 posts later you’re still dancing around it. It’s not that hard.
Well, i know that there are ton of lgtb people worrking on blizzard but there are more factors to have lgtb characters on games.
Who puts the money?
What country will ban that game if they put lgtb characters? Etc
There are still old men that forces some videogame companies to change the protagonist to plain men because they dont want women to be the protagonists ( this hapened to life is strange for example)
You don’t even know what your asking so how could I answer???
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