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FOOL: Fan Outrage As Blizzard Fixes Overwatch Bug In Beta "Betraying Original Artistic Vision"

Published Fri, 01 Apr 2016 08:27:18 -0500

Last updated Mon, 04 Apr 2016 12:46:27 -0500

Overwatch has had it a little hard recently. The game has come under fire for changing a pose of the character Tracer, which one fan said they felt over-sexualised the character. Blizzard decided to heed the advice and make the change, causing outrage from people claiming censorship of the original work.

Well, just a few days later, it has happened again. A petition has started online, claiming that a bug in the game has been changed, which previously had players falling through the map. The petition claims that the fix, despite being part of a beta, betrays the artistic value of the original work. It reads:

This is an outrage. This is not the Overwatch I have come to know and love through all of these betas. I recently found out that Blizzard have taken it upon themselves to take out a bug that allowed you to fall underneath the environment of a map, if you shot at a specific wall 14 times in a row. Yes, when you fell through the map, it rendered you useless, not even able to die, but this was part of the game I adored. This is a stark betrayal of the artistic vision of the game as it was originally, and had come to be representative, at least to me (and I will be shocked if I'm alone) of the futility of our existence and our fixation on material good.

The petition goes on for 12 more pages, going into the art work of Salvador Dali painting, diatribes of renaissance art and tears down the artistic credibillity of cave paintings. It does mention that it knows betas are meant to be iterative, but that they've chosen to ignore that fact. The petition has been signed 413 times.

Comments added to the petition include:

How could Blizzard do this?

Why do we have to keep pressuring developers to take out my ability to fall through the floor?

#Don'tSquashBugs

Is this about that bum thing or…?

Why can't betas just better represent these poor artists initial vision. Why do we have to make suggestions to create a better game? Why can't we leave well enough alone?

Blizzard have not commented on whether they intend to reinstate the ability of players to fall through the floor again or not.

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