However, more overt practices of sexualising the game’s ch aracters have been taken down by the company, like the online magazine Playwatch, which was an openly sexual form of fan content, showing that the company wants to maintain a certain distance between the game and its sexualization.
The article first establishes that Overwatch has sexual themes in it, and that Activision Blizzard does not want to censor people completely in relation to the subject. The article focuses on the ways that Overwatches gameplay works and the community that has formed around th is type of play.
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However, times have changed, and the world finds itself in an era calling for consent-based sex positivity, just as the United States elected a President aching to grab the Statue of Liberty by the pussy.The Pro Strats of Healsluts : Overwatch, Sexuality, and Perverting the Mechanics of Play (2019) by Kyle Bohunicky & Jordan Youngblood discusses the phenomenon of “ healslutting ,” a form of roleplay where the act of healing other players is sexualized through gameplay mechanics and interactions with other players. It represents a natural progression for a publication that began at a time where a woman’s exposed breasts could be seen as sexual liberation against a backdrop of a society discovering its sexuality. The new version of Playwatch was working to set itself up as an enlightened publication viewing nudity as a beautiful and natural part of humanity, opposed to the simple masturbatory aid of years gone by. Today, we’re taking our identity back and rediscovering who we are. Nudity was never the problem, because nudity isn’t a problem. I’ll be the first to admit the way in which the magazine portrayed nudity was dated, but removing it entirely was a mistake. Incoming Chief Creative Officer Cooper Hefner, spawn of Hugh Hefner, took to Twitter to announce Playwatch’s new direction, commencing with the March/April 2017 issue: The inspiration behind Playwatch’s nudity-free year If you want to contact us, we will read all emails sent to will see you in the battleground Heroes! It has been a privilege getting to know you all, and we will keep you updated with any news we have. The entire Playwatch Team is extremely grateful for your support.
We started several months ago with the goal of bringing Overwatch fans a new way of enjoying the game and creating a place where artists and writers could share their work with the rest of the community. We have spent our time and resources to make Playwatch a big project, and this has clearly paid off. Your help and enthusiasm made it all worth it. For that reason, we have contacted Blizzard directly and decided to close the website until we have an answer from them. We have received a notification from a digital copyright protection agency that claims Playwatch Magazine infringes Blizzard’s intellectual property rights.
There is no present tense, there will be no future tense: due to concerns from Blizzard about its Overwatch characters appearing in the magazine, Playwatch has been cancelled.įans who visit Playwatch’s official website are now greeted with the following message: And because of the failures of the English language, we read Playwatch in the past tense. We might all masturbate to the characters of Overwatch, but when it comes to Playwatch magazine, we just read it for the articles. The most offensive thing you'll see this year
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