{"id":108293,"date":"2026-04-11T09:50:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/ex-overwatch-director-says-tracers-butt-was-never-nerfed\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:50:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T09:50:35","slug":"ex-overwatch-director-says-tracers-butt-was-never-nerfed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/ex-overwatch-director-says-tracers-butt-was-never-nerfed\/","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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/overwatch-2016\/\">Overwatch<\/a> debuted almost a decade ago, the game encounter some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/blizzard-removing-overwatch-butt-pose-after-fan-cr\/1100-6436076\/\">pushback over Tracer&#8217;s victory pose<\/a>, which some claimed over-sexualized her and placed too much emphasis on her butt. Blizzard subsequently apologized and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/replacement-for-overwatch-butt-pose-revealed\/1100-6438166\/\">reworked Tracer&#8217;s pose<\/a>. 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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/the-legend-of-california\/\">The Legend of California<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/we-actually-didnt-nerf-tracers-butt-10-years-on-former-overwatch-boss-is-still-being-asked-about-that-pose-change\">IGN<\/a>. 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/blizzard-commits-to-changing-new-overwatch-heros-appearance-following-same-face-criticism\/1100-6538052\/\">promised to rework the design of Anran<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/blizzard-unveils-anrans-redesigned-face-in-overwatch-season-2\/1100-6539241\/\">new facial design for Anran<\/a>, which emphasizes her maturity over youth and increased her resemblance to her brother, Wuyang.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ex-overwatch-director-says-tracers-butt-was-never-nerfed\/1100-6539353\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\/\">Continue Reading at GameSpot<\/a><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\">Source link <\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}