A character isn’t designed to appease everyone. a character is designed to have a role in the game that enables other characters and alters the meta.
From a lore point it shouldn’t matter if the gay, straight, bi, male, female, or trans as it doesn’t help the lore. when OW came out saying that tracer was gay, everyone lost there minds, but how did that affect the lore? The gameplay? it didn’t. Tracer was still a phenomenal pilot who joined overwatch and needs a chrono-accelerator to stay anchored in time.
People need to worry on the lore of the game and the balance of the game and not worry about a characters sexual preference. besides assigning a sexual preference to a character limits all the fan-fic being written. XD
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If it doesn’t matter, why did you start this thread? Things that “shouldn’t matter” have no need to say as to why, otherwise it matters.
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im just tired of everyone clamering for an LGBT character when it doesnt matter what the character identifies as because it doesnt affect the lore nor the gameplay.
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That doesn’t justify the reasoning to your stance though? You say it “doesn’t matter” and yet give reasons as to why it does, so yes, it does matter to you.
Not trying to be rude, I just don’t understand how that equates to “not caring” when you did enough to make this thread?
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Here. Let me give you some cup of coffee… Gives coffee
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Because it’s a videogame where people kill each other?
I mean, it does effect the lore. Like specifically, that’s all it effects. “Lore” = “narrative” = “details about the characters and the events that involve them”
It matters to users that they are able to see characters “like themselves” in games. It’s crucial for immersion / investment / engagement… all that. Always the case in all games.
OP is right though, in the sense that “doesn’t matter” means “if there is a character that isn’t like you, that shouldn’t be making you upset.” read: you’re a white, male, straight person. A non-white, female, gay character should not be riling you up. That’s petty and dumb.
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My friend is gay, and he really likes Tracer being gay too. A lot of people like it…
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But not everyone likes it, that’s the thing.
Not everyone can be happy, and people need to learn that.
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Everyone has there favourite character for one reason or another. But clamering for an LGBT character limits the devs on how the can design a character.
Not to mention how some people want some specific heroes to be gay because of Shipping/Fanfic reasons. Even when it doesn’t make any sense (Mccree and Hanzo don’t know each other in lore and no Junkenstein doesn’t count)
I could care less if a hero is confirmed to be gay or not (coming from a guy with a gay brother), but if they ever do confirm some hero as gay, it should actually make sense lore-wise and not because the fans demanded X hero must be gay because of a popular ship.
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I like Roadhog because he doesn’t talk much, and I can relate to that. I like zer0 in Borderlands because he is skinny and agile, and I can relate to that. There’s more to these characters than their gameplay mechanics, and we would heavily criticize these games if there wasn’t.
The argument goes, why is sexual preference any different from other character traits (such as silent, skinny, agile, funny, nerdy, etc).
As long as the writing isn’t terribad (e.g. Janey “did I tell you I’m a lesbian yet” Springs from BL:TPS), and sexuality really is treated as just another character trait, the only problem I have with it is when the audience obsesses over it. Which does happen often with this subject, sadly.
PS: they have 27 (soon to be 28) characters to work with
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Surely there’s a happy middle ground though…I’m neutral on the subject, but I’d like to see the maximum amount of pleased people possible.
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The less fan fictions the better.
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It makes LGBT people happy and adds to the relatively small pile of positive media representation they have. So it “matters.”
What is more accurate to say is that a character’s social demographics have no effect on the gameplay, which is correct. Meaning there’s no reason to be angry when people ask for it.
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and there isn’t any reason to be angry there there isn’t a character that is LGBT.
Most people aren’t angry. They’re simply asking for what Blizzard already promised.
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If it doesn’t matter lore-wise that they aren’t gay then why would it matter if they are? Blizzard are the ones who introduced romantic relationships into the lore in the first place: Widowmaker’s husband, Rein/Ana’s relationship, Torbjorn apparently being virile af with his 15 kids.
If it truly didn’t matter then romance should not have been included in the lore in any capacity.
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Gameplay =/= Lore. These things are mutually exclusive.
And Tracer is still all of those great things, and she’s also a Lesbian. That does not diminish her accomplishments. It just adds more to her character. That’s all. That’s all we want.
More lore in general, further and deeper characterization.
What’s so bad about that?
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Exactly. So there should be no reason to clamor for some “big reveal” of another lgbt character when it doesn’t and shouldn’t matter if they fit a certain “societal role”.
If the next character is lgbt, so be it. If one of the other heroes are lgbt, SO. BE. IT.
But don’t go demanding for sudden lgbt reveals just because “my inclusion, there’s nobody like me!”
There should be absolutely NO reason for people to complain if the Devs decide not to reveal the heroes’ sexual identities and preferences, because they don’t MATTER.
So, basically, it shouldn’t and doesn’t matter whether a hero is lgbt or not. So both arguing for AND against specific heroes to be lgbt, or demanding that the next hero be lgbt, is dumb and selfish. If teh Developers want to reveal a hero as LGBT, that is their perogative. Don’t go campaigning for heroes to be or not to be lgbt!
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