Sexual content is not sexual harassment. This is a T for Teens game, there’s room for T level sexual content, which purposefully already isn’t much (which is fine.)
Skimpy armor, paintings of women (or men) in skimpy clothing, jokes like “bros before ho ho hos, etc.” that’s not sexual harassment.
Mistreating people at your workplace in a sexual manner? That’s sexual harassment.
When I want to see you guys change, it isn’t the removal of /spit or some tidying up of a few troublesome achievements. Granted, I don’t think one single act of these things was in its own bad (I could not care less about /spit) but it’s the sum of the whole.
What annoys me though, is that it’s meaningless. It changes nothing.
You want to clean house? Then look to your workplace culture and behavior towards the people who you employ. Firing the people implicated in the lawsuit? Good first step. Removing bad figures from places of honor (such as removing Afriasiabi’s NPC and ingame items)? Good second step (and about the only “cancel culture” I actually felt was necessary.). But instead of focusing on old paintings and dumb in game jokes, focus on your employees. I’d rather you fix that than worry about an obscure painting in a hallway in Karazhan most people haven’t seen for ten years.
Or maybe, just maybe, the people who were the victims asked for these things to be changed. And if that is the case, anyone whining about muh pixels can pound sand.
As we, Blizzard entertainment, move forward to continue our goal of a fair and equal workplace, we want to see this mirrored in our in game assets. This presents an opportunity for our talented and diverse team to demonstrate their talents while furthering our vision for a better tomorrow.
To be fair, Blizzard knows why they added that art to the game in the first place. If they know it was made with bad intentions, I understand why they would get rid of it.
You know they’re going to continue to doing this. If they go after armor set like AQ chest for clothies or even bikini armor, that will set people off.
Right? I doubt most people did, but you know if they had just made the change without saying anything some streamer that pays his bills creating unrest would have somehow found it and made 342 videos about how that thing was the death of WoW.
If they do it will be the right of the players to complain (or leave) if they so choose. At the end of the day though, it is Blizzard’s game and if they feel the game would be better without certain aspects, for now, I am ok with that.
I still don’t think they will change transmogs, I just think they may give the option for players not to see other’s transmogs. Time will tell.
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