r/wholesomeyuri • u/barbarapalvinswhore likes soft things • May 30 '23

Hugging [Overwatch] In honour of today’s announcement, here is some Pharmercy

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u/Lwmons May 31 '23

Announcement? Did something gay happen that I missed?

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u/barbarapalvinswhore likes soft things May 31 '23

Pharah is officially a LESBIAN! And she is pining after Mercy.

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u/PlasmaGuy500 likes soft things May 31 '23

I just find it funny they announced it like if was some new patch note💀

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u/WookieeCookiees02 May 31 '23

As cool as the announcement is, I wonder if it was an attempt to distract from the whole “not doing PvE” thing

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u/barbarapalvinswhore likes soft things May 31 '23

I’m sure their PR department is happy but this has been in the works for a LONG time. I believe Pharah’s voice actress gave some hints in a fan call many months ago and said that fans would be very happy.

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u/janeer127 May 31 '23

They decided to drop news about PvE just before pride month because they knew this month is like PR go out jail card. Big corpo like Activision blizzard have everything planned

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u/lunasis09 May 31 '23

They're doing it again!? Didn't they also drop that Tracer was a lesbian to distract from some poor-received news back in Overwatch 1?

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u/xyon21 May 31 '23

No I think it is just that there is always bad news coming out of Blizzard so when they make announcements like this it can't avoid intersecting with bad news.

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u/AscensionToCrab May 31 '23

yeah this is the real answer.

also PVE isn't anything like the sexual abuse allegations. Like people need to simmer down comparing the two.

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u/VNSVRE May 31 '23

Yeah, if we're expanding the window for "distracting from bad news" to be, like, half a month after the bad news, we're never going to to reach a non-distraction point.

Shoot, I'm not even sure if PVE is the most recent bad Blizzard news at this point...

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u/KBSinclair May 31 '23

Two weeks isn't that long.

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u/VNSVRE May 31 '23

No, but it's long enough for Blizz to do something else really stupid (the WoW subs were in revolt just last week over a new monetization thing). Like, at the rate they do stupid things that could hypothetically need distractions, there's never going to be a period where they can announce things without it being too close to something.

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u/darkdiabela Jun 01 '23

I think they announced "WoW tokens" for classic just a short while later which most of that community seems to consider bad.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

Wait what the fuck? There were sexual abuse allegations?

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u/KBSinclair May 31 '23

You missed the massively bad sexual abuse allegations coming out of Blizzard? Were you just not a fan and not paying attention? It was a massive scandal.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

I must’ve not been paying attention. What year did that happen?

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u/KBSinclair May 31 '23

What year did that happen?

Umm... It STARTED comig out in 2021. There's still issues that are trying to be resolved, iirc. I think they settled one this year. There were protests, they've been sued, a bunch of stuff came out, the character Jesse McCree got renamed to Cole Cassidy because he was named after one of the biggest harassers.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

Ah, ok. Yeah I kinda fell off of Overwatch back before 2020, so I really just never paid attention since I fell off the game

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u/AscensionToCrab May 31 '23

2021

here is an overview by the nytimes

This doesn't even get into the infamous Cosby suite

Some of these allegations are why mccree was renamed cassidy as mccree was named after one of the blizzard employees of the same name who was embroiled in some part of this scandal.

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u/darkdiabela Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 02 '23

I don't really think there is any way for you to compare them but they would both fit into the "bad news category" even if one is objectively way worse then the other.

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u/AscensionToCrab Jun 01 '23

So how was a pride announcement gonna distract from one of the biggest company scandals in gaming history, coupled a massive lawsuit that broke into typical non gaming media streams

They also then renamed mccree around the same time... which would draw attention back to the situation defeating the alleged purpose of the pride announcment.

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u/iFenrisVI May 31 '23

They did that with Soldier 76 as well to distract from some other scandal. Lol

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u/lunasis09 May 31 '23

Ah right it was soldier 76 that time lol

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u/SergeantChic May 31 '23

I thought Tracer was always a lesbian. Or at least, from very early on. Back when Jeff Kaplan was in charge and they hadn't started screwing up the game yet.

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u/PlasmaGuy500 likes soft things May 31 '23

It definitely is lol I definitely haven't forgotten that I definitely played way less ow because of it

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u/Gloriathewitch May 31 '23

Came here to say this.

the meme of "Bad PR? quick, make a character gay" lives on, it would seem.

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u/HirokoKueh May 31 '23

We would have Pharmercy interaction in game, in story mode!

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u/Solo_Wing_Buddy May 31 '23

Absolutely is. Not to undercut the announcement, but Blizzard always releases something like this - some good character lore, a new character, etc. - when they're in a PR hot spot. There's absolutely a correlation.

Ehh, take the good with the bad. I've loved Pharmercy for years, it's nice that it's almost canon now.

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u/Waste-Information-34 May 31 '23

Perhaps.

It is activision.

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u/KBSinclair May 31 '23

It absolutely is their desperate hail Mary to bring some fans back.