I feel like if any agenda was getting pushed by OW, it would have been the lesbian relationship. I mean they've turned more characters gay post release than JK Rowling has at this point and the entire modus oprendai of the game became pandering to the Lettuce Gay Bacon and Tomato faggots on twitter.
Gency was absolutely getting pushed when Michael Chu was still around, now, not so much. I think Jeff was a Pharmercy fan but even then they didn’t get nearly as much teasing in comparison. I suppose you can give Gency a few points for being one of the few non-gay pairings but I wouldn’t say either of these is a winner. If they’re going to pair anyone up, I personally think Reinhardt and Ana would be the best choice, but that’s my two cents without getting into full-blown sperging territory about shipping. This is why it was a dumb idea to begin with.
Are there even any others? And I'm not talking weird fan pairings, but like shit that actually has some standing within the game itself.
Aside from Reinhardt/Ana, there’s Lucio/D.Va, but the majority of it was in the base game. It’s obvious where the bias stands these days.
I'm not sure about Reinhardt and Ana, but there's literally no evidence at all anywhere that states Lucio and D.Va are a thing.
They were teased, not canon. No pairing is
That killed me because Solider 76 was one of the best tools in the chest for dealing with shit. You might not be able to easily execute all the gimmicks other characters have, but if you were good at shooting you could do good things with Soldier. Then they made him a fag. For no reason. No build up. No story. They just threw that in to score good boy points on twitter and poisoned the entire character to me. I'd rather have an organically gay character who's written well than a random character made gay to appeal to fags on twitter. Astarion is clearly supposed to be gay in BG3, I know for mechanics sake he's bi, but that dude's gay as hell. He's incidentally, also one of my favorite companions in that game because his sharp whit and generally shitty attitude is always funny.
I can never tell if I like or hate Lucio. On one hand he's a nigger who listens to loud music, thinks bass is the best thing in the world, and shoots people at random and Blizzard thought that was an acceptable stereotype.
It's also writing.
Even Moira/Mercy pairing would've had been a more interesting choice given their backstories, but no we gotta pander to those tumblr pooners and yurifags from 2016!
To play the devil's advocate, the interactions between Mercy and Genji weren't so on the nose as far as I remember, they were generally simplewith the only explicit ones (which was for Valentine's Day and White Day) being there for 1 day exclusively and then never being repeated ever again until the next year. The only interaction outside the game they got was in that 2016 Christmas comic, where it was shown them receiving letters from one another. And there were constant lore breaks where even fans wondered if they just given up all together on it (if only they know how bad things would get.)
Nah man, the Gency pandering was particularly obvious, with the Valentine's Day lines making it blatant. Even if I were to give them the benefit of the doubt and say you could interpret all those moments as Genji and Mercy simply being close friends, they still knew what they were doing. It's one of the most popular Overwatch ships for a reason. Chu basically making them the self-inserts for him and his blonde white wife was just cringe.
Let's not act like both of them weren't forced, gay or not. I never had a horse in the great Gency vs. Pharmercy race and frankly never gave a shit about either of them, but the only reason Gency had any kind of basis in the story was because some of the staff (read: Chu) shipped it, same reason why Mercy and Pharah are friends. The whole thing was a mistake.
Oh God, you just unlocked some repressed memories of seeing shipping war slapfights. I am starting to remember Chu
I used to play Mercy, but then they sodomized her completely with that second rework,
Listened to it while cooking, the ending was really gay. The idea it's solely the result of the higher ups is ridiculous, if anything most of the problems in gaming are because the majority of the company staff forces the management to focus on retarded shit while barely putting any work. Blaming upper management is just a weak cope.
I never participated in the Gency vs Pharmercy thing, but it seemed like the game was content with teasing ships here and there, casually throwing fuel at shippers for fun like many other media with an ensemble cast. I quietly shipped Widowtracer on the sidelines, then Blizzard roundhouse kicked and buried the ship six feet under for no reason.
