{"id":43695,"date":"2026-04-11T19:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43695"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T11:49:34","slug":"ex-overwatch-director-says-tracers-butt-was-never-nerfed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=43695","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Overwatch Director Says Tracer&#039;s Butt Was Never &quot;Nerfed&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1837\/18375603\/4680373-overwatchtracer.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the original Overwatch debuted almost a decade ago, the game encounter some pushback over Tracer&#8217;s victory pose, which some claimed over-sexualized her and placed too much emphasis on her butt. Blizzard subsequently apologized and reworked Tracer&#8217;s pose. Now, former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan has weighed in on the issue and declared that Tracer&#8217;s butt was never nerfed.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan was asked about the issue while streaming his new game, The Legend of California, via IGN. In response, Kaplan said &#8220;we actually didn&#8217;t nerf Tracer&#8217;s butt. It stayed exactly the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard recently ran into a similar issue and promised to rework the design of Anran, a new female hero whose face was met by a negative reaction from players because she looked too similar to other characters. Earlier this this month, Blizzard unveiled a new facial design for Anran, which emphasizes her maturity over youth and increased her resemblance to her brother, Wuyang.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ex-overwatch-director-says-tracers-butt-was-never-nerfed\/1100-6539353\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the original Overwatch debuted almost a decade ago, the game encounter some pushback over Tracer&#8217;s victory pose, which some claimed over-sexualized her and placed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6832,2626,20305,20307,20306],"class_list":["post-43695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-butt","tag-director","tag-exoverwatch","tag-quotnerfedquot","tag-tracer039s","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}