Last Thursday, the Overwatch team announced on the official Twitter account that the game McCree will usher in a new name. At the same time, Blizzard will also modify the names of multiple characters in World of Warcraft. Obviously, this is related to the lawsuit the company faces in California. Three people have been fired by the game developer after serious gender discrimination and harassment in the company was exposed.
The Overwatch team stated in a tweet: We have built the Overwatch universe based on the concepts of tolerance, fairness, and good expectations for the future, and we continue to explore the best practices of values in order to fulfill a promise of the game world based on the above values. In response to recent events, we feel it is necessary to change the hero McRae to another more representative name.
Affected by this, the next round of content updates originally scheduled to be promoted in September will also be postponed to later this year. Jesse McCree is a designer who has worked for Blizzard for many years. Before being fired by the company in early August, he had been working on Diablo 4 related work. According to a photo shared by Kotaku, McCree is also a member of BlizzCon Cosby Crew, during which the Brotherhood Boy Culture prevailing in the company has been widely criticized.
At the same time, World of Warcraft will also change the names of several characters. In an email on Monday, a Blizzard spokesperson stated that names such as Jesse McCree, Luis Barriga and Jon LeCraft will all be removed from the game. Among them, Luis Barriga was the chief designer of World of Warcraft. Before leaving, he was the director of the Diablo 4 project. In addition, Jon LeCraft was also the designer of this game.
The above three people not only have the characters named after them but also related weapons and items. There is even an area called MacAree in the game.
