Overwatch has flirted with Pride before, but this will be the first time it celebrates with a full seasonal event, altered maps, cosmetics, and more which is clearly going the extra mile to make LGBTQ+ fans feel welcome. Bigots are going to complain, and the event is set to be censored in certain territories which aren’t quite as progressive, although this still feels like a promise from the development team to do better by its queer players in ways which are no longer confined to webcomics only a tiny percentage of the audience are ever going to read.
Pharah is a lesbian. One of Overwatch ’s most beloved heroes has been the intense focus of queer pairings and headcanons since the first game’s release in 2016, and Blizzard has now confirmed our long-held sapphic suspicions as part of an upcoming Pride event. Pharah sits alongside Tracer, Soldier 76, and Baptiste as one of many queer characters, although some of them were retroactively blessed with this queerness instead of it being part of their origins.This brings up an interesting debate, and the community has been hashing out the value of LGBTQ+ representation which didn’t exist when the foundations were built, but was subtly added through future updates and multimedia stories that don’t even exist within the game itself. It can be easy to label Overwatch’s handling of queer characters and themes as hollow rainbow capitalism, even more so when Activision has a habit of dropping huge revelations like this alongside evolving workplace scandals or big stories that it wants to distract you from. Pharah feels like an unfortunate coincidence, but it’s hard to forgive its awkward timing when it’s flanked by a damning Bobby Kotick article that brings years’ worth of scandals screaming back into the headlines. It’s gross, and puts an unfortunate spin on a big reveal that fans have a right to be excited about. I used to play Overwatch every day. It was a game that defined my time in university. My flatmates and I would often play games in the evening or speculate about future seasonal events and loot drops.
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