Fanfic is serious business for Blizzard

it's too late to go back on the tumblr audience, Blizzcucks. you made your bed now lie in it and get raped.

Is this a surprise to anyone when the Souls series continues to intrigue fans and possibly create better telling stories than what the creators originally came up with. Providing the character and story arcs are consistent with just enough open end for people to make their own conclusions this is a win for everyone.

user, this is the year of our lord 2017. Gaming has taken strains of post-modern art. Something utterly retarded and bland will be regarded as the second coming of mohamed if fucking snobs (both developers themselves, plus their cabal of politically-concerned-but-non-consumers-of-the-medium tumblristas) say so.

Probably a good business move.

Roadhog and Junkrat gay bear daddy shipping

Your lore would need to be TF2 to make such game work.
You also could split heroes into 2 factions, which would be extremely fun but we are not doing this.

It's not gay if Junkrat is transgender.

You're joking but I've seen faggots start to call traps "transmale" so that it's not gay to like them.

How could it be canon? It's a fucking arena shooter. There's no plot.

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Source?

Oh, there's "plot" alright.

…a whole lot of it.

What? How do you make the focal point of the series non-canon?

What, just like TF2 did?

If you ever look at Junkrat art and see those weird red-ish lines under his breast muscles, do know that they are supposed to be scars from his tit-removal operation.

I don't play the game but I do appreciate the egyptian rocket chick on multiple levels.

Ohhh yes.

if pharahs tits were actually that big and there was decent jiggle physics then I might actually play this crap.

I'm pretty sure he's just skinny and stylized weird.

I don't see anything except shadows for his pecs. Stop eating up Tumblr confirmation bias.

Needs one, at least then the game could actually be fun.

well, you see, there's a rich tapestry of exciting events in the Overwatch world, but the gameplay is just people blowing their ults at chokepoints. so the part people actually play isn't important.
this kind of thing happens with bad tabletop groups, too, where someone writes a fuckin novella worth of cool shit their character has done in the past, then shows up to the session and just has their dude sit in the corner and go 'tch… nothing personnel, kid'.

No, I think you are wrong, user. I think he's transgender.

I really doubt it. It's probably just some nonsense about hi-tech uplift and maybe space magic?

gross

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As I said, Blizzard doesn't care about quality.

IIRC, some of the world's lore is grounded in "It's the future, so…FUCK YOU!" Take Tracer's chest device, first she has to wear it all the time, then she doesn't, and, now, she doesn't have to wear it unless she's in "close" proximity to it (Last I heard).

When will devs stop fearing internet?

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Who started this?

The problem is that they're fearing the wrong parts of it.

i like sniper cougar

Can't say I disagree

I don't play the game, but I have seen enough porn to see what shipping is out there. However: let's think about what this "path" would have been. I suspect that it would have been something along the lines of Pharah X Mercy. What could other theories have be, so that it would have been "shocking" enough that it would send Tumblr in a nuclear chain reaction?

your flag is confusing me

that art is disgusting

Nigger tier taste.

I accidentally left it on.

b-but muh thicc!!!

Bullshit! Here's what probably is going on.

Mark my words they axed this because they don't want to end up killing a franchise like Marvel has.

It sure is a good thing they decided to have this change of heart after they decided to make Tracer a faggot.
Fuck me, why do I have to have a thing for short-haired girls?

What?

They made D.VA a cop and it pissed off a huge chunk of their SJW fanbase, along with people who pretty much don't like cops.

Leaving everything vague is a smart move in the short-run but it also means they can't actually advance the "story". Doesn't matter for now since it keeps their fanbase pacified.

So fuck her straight, not like Overwatch canon means shit anyway.

So 5 people?

Officer D.VA skin came out. Faggot SJW fanfic writers and artists are now trying to say that D.VA "canonically" is a BLM supporter and that making her a cop is highly offensive. This means little as the people who make these claims don't actually play the fucking game and aren't in charge of making any actual decisions about what is or isn't canon to the franchise.

There's so much better short haired girls in vidya and you had to go for the worst one.

Cancer incarnate. Shut as many of them down as you can. Make a weekly podcast just for reading fanfics and "head canons" and just tear them to fucking shreds. In fact, insult the people who wrote them.

Didn't Lovecraft did that with his friends?

Sounds plausible.

SJWs rarely game, but like with Life is Strange they do play one shit tier game in order to claim they're gamers. Overwatch and Life is Strange are the shit stains they play.

Also pissed off those sick of politicization of games. Here I sit though, just smiling smugly at people who get pissed about the bad decisions about Overwatch when I refuse to touch it.

Looks like Blizzard is finally going to have to admit that they can't support all these fetishes and look politically correct at the same time.

No shit, I said the fanfic writers and tumblr artists that are making the claim that D.VA is a BLM supporter DON'T play the game. They just make shit up that other SJWs latch on to.

>Here I sit though, just smiling smugly at people who get pissed about the bad decisions about __ when I refuse to touch it.

Make this shit longer, Please. This is the gayest way I've read "I don't play shit games".

lol cuck shill xd
I agree.

Doesn't matter if they don't play if the people they're addressing do play. It's fucking hilarious that Blizzard courted these assholes and now can't make money via an extended universe.

Okay
fast forward
fast forward a few months

I still don't play shit and you shouldn't have expected me to put effort into shortening a thought or putting a second thought into that sentence.

You're a special kind of dense, you know that?

Yeah I mean it's good for the money. It's horrible in terms of the cancer it validates and promotes.

Longer please. I love seeing other faggots.

Wow what else is new?

Huh. I had the impression that they cancelled the novel, so that they could use the story to make an OW single player game that they would charge at full price and people would still pay for it.
Instead, this shit sounds as "we are afraid that aspects from the story are going to invalidate pairings that tumblr is obsessed about so we're rewriting everything".

I enjoy playing the game in short burstsinb4 GO HOME OVERCUCKS but they seem to take feedback in the most stupid possible way. They listen to the retards in the forums in regards to both balancing and game mechanics, and now, in lore-related issues too. if it's too difficult to adapt to whatever the fanbase expects from the worldbuilding, and you "enjoy" seeing what theories, (i.e. shipping faggotry) they come up with, then leave everything as is and don't go beyond giving backstories for future characters and maybe locations.
Sometimes I hate how vage is the lore in Souls games but is correct in the sense that it's best to leave it at that instead of trying to pander to everyone and going against your original vision.

Blizzard is getting too cocky with the success of this franchise, and thinks they can court tthe autistic waifufags and idpol useful idiots at the same time and get money from both groups. They are either going to fail spectacularly, or get moderate success at the cost of completely ruining anything good that might have come from it.

I thought it was the gameplay itself what was non-canonical, considering that your team can have characters that, according to their backstories, would never collaborate with each other.

Their main audience is from Tumblr, so it makes sense not to do anything that would send them into an autistic rage, like writing their own plot and telling people to go fuck themselves.

Is she supposed to look like shes in her mid 40s?

Makes sense. Lorefags also have shit taste and love wasting money.

It's really a poisonous impulse, too. They'll waste hours on fictional archeology but can't pick up a fucking book.

At least they know more about lore than the writers

If that's true then, why don't they just pull a sega and let anyone make their own heroes inside overwatch?

Once the money starts running out.

Why are you faggots hating on blizzard?

Put yourselves in their shoes. They're smart for delivering some hot polished shit that normalfags love and make ridiculous amount of cash out of.

If you're gonna hate someone, hate the fucking casuals ALLOWING this to happen.

Why does Blizzard want money from the modern casuals but doesn't want money from old warcraft server wanting folks?
Is there some sort of agenda?
Why does a company only want some of the money?
Shouldn't they want ALL the money?

What kind of loser writes fan-fiction? If you're not a fucking kid, why are you wasting your time on writing on shit that's not even your idea. Why not write something on your own if you like to write?

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The problem is actually the reverse of what you say. Historically, stories are something held in common. It's only since copyright that the notion of "fan-fiction" can even be distinguished. Look at the tragedies of the Greeks. They redid the same stories in different ways a hundred times or more.

Beta as shit. This is like a farmer scared of the raincloud's opinion.

No, Blizzard is fucking inept and they only listen to the loudest and whiniest people. If two groups are equally loud and whiny they'll go with the path of least financial cost.

I don't see ZUN refraining from expanding Touhou's world because it might conflict with fan theories. And Touhou has a huge fandom.

that implies Touhou has anything worth expanding

It does. You're just butthurt because it's Japanese or "weeaboo" or whatever, so fuck off.

I used to like this game, played the shit out of it and then defended it sometimes on here. That was until I took a step back and realized: "Wait a fucking minute, this game has pretty terrible mechanics in comparison to other games, has a sloppily mashed together lore with a shit ton of inconsistencies regarding its time line, the devs are completely fucking milking this game with updates that intentionally break characters in order for meta rotation, and Blizzard would rather actually listen to the bitching and moaning of the cancerous player base rather than create a game in their own image". It is seriously one of the many fucking games in which the developers put more effort into making it into a money generating machine rather a decent IP, Blizzard doesn't give a fuck about it beyond PR comics, sabotaging its mechanics, and money. Therefor, why should anyone give a flying fuck about this piece of garbage.

Cry more, toohootard

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Fuck off you fucking normalfag subhuman piece of shit retard.

lmao, cry more toohootard, nobody cares about your casual as fuck game series. I bet you're a secondary yourself, faggot.

Well, fuck you. It happened. Even the most brainwashed of people have moments of reflection.

You wouldn't have played it in the first place if you actually thought this shit, quit lying just to fit in on a video game imageboard.

You ARE a fucking normalfag and the cancer killing imageboards.

It's a fucking doujin bullet hell game, there's nothing "casual" about it you retard subhuman fuck.

I bet you don't even know what that means you fucking scum.

Someone seems mad they're being called out for being a secondary.

As if I give a shit about trying to fit in with a couple of faggots that complain about games all day, I'd stare at a mirror if that was the case. Every fucking game like overwatch has novelty that comes in the first few months of playing it. News flash: It wears off eventually.

No, YOU got mad just because I mentioned Touhou to make a point. Because you're fucking normalfag scum and get triggered instantly by such things. Fucking kill yourself you fucking piece of shit.

Isn't the whole story that in the future mankind is united (NWO) and employs a military of homosexuals, women, chimeras etc but there is no conflict so they just kill each other for practice?

I gotta ask some weird shit.
Does anybody have decent Bastion porn that can't already be found on the boorus?
From my experience, there's at least 8 times more porn of a character on the internet than can be found on those types of sites, but it's usually hidden away on art blogs or on obscure accounts on sites such as Pixiv.

The only Fan fiction worth recognizing is the one where Road Hog is a 7ft tall Beefcake.

Not at all. The eponymous organization was originally made to defend humans against robutts gone rogue, they succeeded and the world was at peace (yet not unified) for a while. Then they faced a PR crisis and got shut down. The organization itself no longer exists by the time the game starts and there are conflicts here and there. Not too different from the current year, save for the technological advancements. Not that this affects the gameplay in any way.

….That is the most idiotic idea I've seen so far.

Nice digits, sperglord.

When will modders start finishing games?

May 18th, 2005

I thought that's what TF2 turned into.

Fuck off normalfag.

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Stay mad, toohoofag

>sperging like a fucking retard over a shit game with shit story
What a fag, at least you gave us some keks.

Fuck off normalfag.

Kill yourself you fucking degenerate.

Normalfag scum piece of shit. You should all be fucking sent to ovens.

Fanfic time?
Fanfic time.

Do your worst. Template provided.

I've been on the internet since Compuserve and I've never read a single fanfic. I am pure.

Not even Halflife: Fulllife Consequences, or Doom: Repercussions of Evil?

The news media is pretty much fan fic at this point.

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Not one, although I'm not counting those I've inadvertently heard read aloud, which includes the latter. I've also never played even a minute of WoW, despite having religiously played the earliest graphical MUDs.

MGS exists. FFVII's Nibelheim Incident exists. Touhou exists. Unless their core idea somehow made it impossible for autists to expand on it (unlikely), this smells fishy.

No, it's not, it has fucking classes. Arena shooters have even starts.

Bendoverwatch fags pulling a "Kill yourself, white washer" when?

Who you're trying to fool?

I completely forgot about that pirate sandnigger.

Blizzard is nothing but fanfic at this point. Warcraft lore has gone to complete trash, and their one head writer just shits out the same "corruption" plot for fucking everything, changes some names, and then strokes his cock about how great he is because tasteless sycophants will suck the scum off of Blizzard's boot and call it four star Michelin cuisine.

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What a fucking bunch of dumbasses. They have a whole world setting and some bits of lore they made and they have NO idea where to take it beyond just some crappy same sex ships? are you shitting me?

That's what irks me about this whole thing, the SJW stigma literally smeared all over this goddamn game and people think it's perfectly fine to not have a story when that is *literally* all they've been doing. well that and shitty balancing and fan cancer but I digress

I might as well just sperg about potential story/lore ideas I thought up of that would actually give this cesspool mess of a universe something remotely of substance. if nothing else I want to unironically pitch most of these to Blizzard, half being so I can fill my mug up with the tears of SJW's and normalfags the other half being I know me or anyone else can fucking do a better job than those fucking hacks anyway

It's like they're trying to be Square Enix and failing. Like, badly.

I thought Square-Enix was pretty much just an engine and lighting company now anyway.

What are you doing here (on this board, on this website)

Exactly, so imagine how bad Blizz is doing trying to imitate their asses and failing.

Rustling mostly.

Tracer is actually straight, the comic was an autistic fantasy.

An autistic fantasy I don't think deluded bitches will like me debunking at all :^)
and there's a lot of deluded bitches out there.

So that means we write the lore now? GREAT! My theory is that Overwatch is the name of an adult autistic daycare center. All characters are being monitored in a simulation which allows them to screw around how ever they feel with few limitations. They choose to kill each other while acting like Disney heroes.

us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20753735625#post-13

I wonder who the next character will be revealed as gay, lesbian or transgender.
Hopefully we'll get a new comic about Swede midget and his daughters bringing home Abdulah, Jamal, and Ahmed teaching us the values of multiculturalism.

Oh, so it's in the sense of how they interact in the spawn or when killing each other. if we go by that then a lot of ships like Pharmercy are invalid because they weigh a lot of that shit based in their spawn interactions.I'm perfectly okay with this.

Ofc it's fucking business for them, they made "perfect target audience sluts" and then specifically shilled it to raging boner drawfags most likely hired quite a few too to draw shit to make the whole game go viral and they succeeded, Holla Forums was and probably is full of that shit.

sage for bringing attention to that shit ever

The thought of Widowmaker seeking the affection of Bastion is amusing.

Overwatch only? So my female pal x female necro lesb diablo2 otp is safe.

imgur.com/gallery/SlrCm

If he/she's an "actual artist" then why do they care some kid got their character drawn by Blizzard?
Wouldn't they be able to draw their own character pretty well?

Are people really that autistic that when shitty canon comes out, they can't dismiss it and pretend their imaginary replacement is reality? Have they ever heard of alternate universes, continuities, and the like?

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It's more like they want Blizzard to enforce their headcanons, be it in-game or in suplement material like the comics.

But the worrying thing is that Blizzard knows that they are walking on eggshells, but they are going to keep at it anyway.

I want to fugg cop D.va after she gets back from putting down a BLM protest

I want to fug the robot

It's bloody brilliant when you're aiming your game towards Tumbler waifu faggots.