The game is already 5 years old and yet we don’t have a disabled character.
Come on, every other game has one. It’s like ableist Blizzard thinks that disabled characters can’t compete with everyone else. That’s insulting and outrageous.
No comments about how it is “forced diversity” or that nobody needs a hero to “justifies their existence”, btw…
Imagine having someone on a high-tech anti-gravity wheelchair with rocket boosters, built-in miniguns and some healing or debuff aura emitting from it.
More diversity please, Blizzard.
Edit: no, people with missing limbs and psychological illnesses are not the type of disabled I’m talking about. There are no characters in a wheelchair and that’s a fact.
Edit2: people forgot how to read, so I’ll explain it like you are 5.
Vitalez says there is no characters in Overwatch that are using a wheelchair because of their disabilities.
Vitalez never said that people in a wheelchair are the only disabled people.
They are not disabled enough to be in a wheelchair plus they can afford high-tech expensive prosthetics to mitigate their problems. So on top of Blizzard being ableist, they are also poor-shaming people.
Dont forget Sigma, he floats arround how do know if he is unable to walk after his accident, yes he moves his legs but many people that are unable to walk are still able to move their legs
I know you’re joking (I used to make parody posts too, lmao), but I do have a question:
Wouldn’t augmented characters count as disabled? Like McCree and Sym?
They do in my game, but that’s because metal arms, legs and such require a level of maintenance that generally make them a direct downgrade to normal limbs (well, unless you get a more expense one, but you know).
That’s a different story. Yes, people with similar conditions can identify themselves with someone like McCree. But there are no paralyzed characters in a wheelchair in OW. Blizzard deliberately ignores this part of community and prevents people with such condition from being able to identify with someone.
