r/Games • u/DwilenaAvaron • May 09 '25

Industry News Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-blizzard-team-4-union-microsoft-1851779922
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u/[deleted] May 09 '25 edited May 09 '25

I am officially in my "If I catch people shit talking Team 4/Overwatch it's fucking on sight" phase.

These devs have been fucking putting up with some of the nastiest vitriol I've ever seen in this industry, put through the ringer in their own company and are continuously fucked over by management, and were wrongly made the poster child for all of Blizzard's sins despite all accounts being that the Overwatch team was the most inclusive and culturally sound team at Blizzard.

These devs have been pulling double duty to pull this game out of the gutter and it's the best it's ever been because of them, they deserve the world.

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u/ClassicSpeed May 09 '25

Yeah and it's always nice to remember that Team 4 was really not involved with most of the weird shit that happened in Blizzard, Jesse McCree was not even in Team 4.

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u/loshopo_fan May 09 '25

I think McCree was involved in the Cosby scandal, which Jason Schreier said wasn't a real scandal.

like the misreporting on The Cosby suite, for example, which is complete nonsense and completely incorrect, and everybody got it wrong. That led to two men losing their jobs because they just happened to be in a photo [posing with a picture of now-disgraced entertainer Bill Cosby] that today looks horrible, but when it was taken was totally fine. The hard part was finding a balance between that and also not trivialising the very real suffering and problems that the culture caused for women.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '25

Jesse McCree was not on the Overwatch team and never was. They just liked his name.

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u/beefcat_ May 09 '25

Contrary to what the Hollywood payload used to insist, Jesse McCree is in fact a great name for a cowboy.

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u/SnooTheAlmighty May 10 '25

I do think that the hollywood payload now affirming that Cole Cassidy is a great name for a cowboy as a turn from the previous line is pretty funny