Game launched with a bit more males than females, so that’s part of it. But modern gamers have gone the complete opposite of old school gamers. They used to want to play badass males to save the beautiful woman. Now they just want to be the beautiful woman. Wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t tipped to the extreme as per usual though. (like how people threw fits they wanted the random lady in teaser instead of Hazard cause they had boobs basically)
The true eye opener in Overwatch is how most of the male are old, animals, ugly, or covered up in bulky clothes while the females typically are half the age, no animals, not ugly, and either show the skin off or wear tights.
Hazard might be our first guy in his 20’s or early 30’s since well… Junkrat and Lucio at launch.
mostly true. the attraction to most of them is there. im not attracted to the omnic ones like echo and orisa. some people probably consider zarya and moira to be non attractive although yea… i think they are. i wouldnt mind zarya squashing me
also yea i bet some people are really attracted to orisa or echo even tho not human …
also ana is the motherly figure. something you wouldnt be attracted too… but that talon ana skin… oh my … nvm
The majority wants sexy female characters, kawai ones works as well. Anything weeby really will do well(genji/kiriko prime examples here even hanzo). Men need to be cool. Diversity is the last thing anyone really wants. People can kick and scream all they want, but they would not bet against this ever if real money was on the line. Like ever, before anyone’s says anything about what the company has bet on; those people get paid regardless, they are not gambling with their own money or their own jobs. If things go sought they just fire a couple underlings and sign themselves a bigger bonus for the year.
Sex sells and many more reasons I could list but nah. You know exactly why Blizzard does this and things like this. They ain’t the only ones who do it.
A fair thing to want perhaps. I do want more male supports maybe or more female tanks but im not gonna say no to ram mauga (and now hazard) or juno and illari
Personally, if a character is cute or cool and they’re fun that’s enough for me.
well maybe we are due for Mama Hong. now that hero probably wont have the male gaze but she would be the “COOL” hero. especially with an ability called “Manslaughter”
would be funny if it only effects male heroes… but thats controversial right heh
Today, there are now 19 female oriented heroes. There are still 22 male oriented heroes since the game launched very male centric. Having around 50/50ish men and women is kind of typical in society as a whole, but sometimes there are outliers for a given industry.
Though as you’ll find more women heroes in the support role and more men heroes in the tank role. Making support smaller and thin framed is going to make sense for a role based more on evasion to stay alive than killing things. Women in real life fit that more often.
While tank design in OW is based upon the idea of being too big to miss when tends to lead to bulkier designs you find with more men. While DPS is a pretty even ratio.
Animals i’m not mentioning.
I aggree that we need more older ladies in the roster.
But ugly?
The only males that i wouldn’t personally call attractive are sigma, torbjorn and junkrat.
Bastion and zen maybe in that list as well.
Haven’t seen enough of hazard or heard enough of his personality to say anything concrete, but at first glance, he looks like a brat and a bully.
The rest though, attractive, ruggedly handsome (some pretty), heroic, cool.
In comparison, in the ladies we have what looks like children (kiri, illari,dva, juno, brigitte), women who look too young for their age (mercy is 40 and looks like barely 30, ashe is the same, mei) and 2 older ladies.
I want a man in his late teens/early twenties. We have lots of young women, but the youngest man is 27 and the rest are all 30+? Particularly would fancy more men in the support role, especially since it’s traditionally seen as a more “”“feminine”“” role