{"id":75167,"date":"2026-04-10T08:27:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T12:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75167"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:47:25","slug":"we-actually-didnt-nerf-tracers-butt-10-years-on-former-overwatch-boss-is-still-being-asked-about-that-pose-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75167","title":{"rendered":"‘We Actually Didn’t Nerf Tracer’s Butt’ \u2014 10 Years On, Former Overwatch Boss is Still Being Asked About That Pose Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s 2026, and Jeff Kaplan, the former boss of Blizzard hero shooter Overwatch<\/a>, is still being asked about a supposed “nerf” to Tracer’s butt.<\/p>\n

Cast your minds back to the simpler times of 2016, when the world was quieter and greener, and Overwatch was still in beta. Amid a frenzy of excitement for Blizzard’s next big franchise, one big controversy stood out that soured some fans on the game’s promise: Blizzard’s decision to alter a pose focused on lead character Tracer’s bottom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Blizzard made the call back in March 2016 to adjust the Tracer’s “Over the Shoulder” victory pose, after the character’s somewhat suggestive positioning drew fire from players. Their critique<\/a> \u2014 one that Kaplan ultimately said he agreed with \u2014 was that it reduced Tracer “to another bland female sex symbol.”<\/p>\n

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After some debate, Kaplan confirmed<\/a> the pose would be changed \u2014 and within a week it was done<\/a>, replacing its initial look with a replacement “Over the Shoulder” pose that gave fans more of a side-on view. <\/p>\n

Perhaps predictably, Blizzard’s decision to make the change also drew fire \u2014 this time from players who said the company had caved to “SJW” complaints. (Remember<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s 2026, and Jeff Kaplan, the former boss of Blizzard hero shooter Overwatch, is still being asked about a supposed “nerf” to Tracer’s butt. Cast your minds back to the simpler times of 2016, when the world was quieter and greener, and Overwatch was still in beta. Amid a frenzy of excitement for Blizzard’s next…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":75169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75171,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75167\/revisions\/75171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}