Companies aren’t your friend, even if you like their content.
I’ve been over this before. Not to say this is the case with everybody who talks about it, but I really can’t help but feel like the stuff people say about Blizzard is misinformed, but also in the name of, “that is morally bad, therefore I must prove I am a good person to internet strangers by saying it is bad and that I do not want fictional characters in my wacky wahoo game”.
Like, I get it. It’s bad. You know what else is bad? Tables that schools use being made by prison workers who don’t get paid. It’s messed up! It’s bad! But does that mean schools should be boycotted? Of course not. It’s not the same situation necessarily, but it’s a morally poor method of bringing supplies to a school that people have a problem with.
It’s complicated when it comes to Blizzard. The developers, who have families to support and jobs to do, DIDNT agree with the decision. Are we supposed to just hate the whole company because of it? That’s more blind hatred and going with the crowd than actual activism.
The way business in the world works, it’s a no brainer move from Blizzard. Bad? Yes. Surprising? No. That’s how businesses work. They are not your friend, but treating the entire business as this boogeyman is not exactly the way to go either, in my humble opinion. Developers or IP do not share the same ideals of the heads of these companies. Tracer is a great character, and the overall concept of Overwatch is pretty cool in my humble opinion; a crazy combo of characters coming together to fight for good, and that anybody could become a hero (or villain, for that matter). To lump in the devs and characters because “Blizzard bad” is disingenuous and just kinda gives an immediate feel of “bad faith” argument.
It’s the same with Nintendo. Do people agree with their copyright rights (law)? No, but it makes sense as to why they take the actions they do. Are they 100% bad? No, because they have done other things (recently I believe supplied hospitals with gaming set ups or something for kids) that speak to a different approach.
Sorry for the wall, but I really, really hate the way internet/social media has created this trend where people say things for social media credit or just go with the crowd to beat up on companies when things are far more complicated. There’s little room for actual discourse. Call me a boot licker (I’m not a bootlicker btw) but things are far more complicated that I genuinely feel half these conversations aren’t what they appear to be.
