because accusations of harassment and discrimination on Blizzard became publicly available, some players requested the character Jesse McCree from Overwatch, change your name. The company then complied and said it would announce a new nickname for the hero to “better represent what Overwatch stands for.”
The company publicly announced today that the culprit is now called Cole Cassidy… Overwatch’s official Twitter account wrote:
“The first thing a renegade loses is his name, and he gave up a long time ago. To run away from the past was to run away from myself and with each passing year the distance between who he was and what he became only widened. But in every cowboy’s life there comes a point when he has to stop and take action. To make this new Overwatch better, to make things better, he had to be honest with the team and himself. The cowboy who was once left at dusk and Cole Cassidy met the world at dawn.“
A few weeks ago, the company announced that playable characters would no longer have employee names, and also promised to be more careful when adding actual links to the game to confirm that this is a fictional universe and that creating it is work. in a team.
Activision Blizzard is currently pursuing a series of lawsuits that began in July after the state of California filed a lawsuit against the company over allegations of workplace discrimination and sexual harassment.
