<giant paragraph> You questioned my background on this particular topic. I responded by saying that I have a long history with Blizzard games. It would then follow that I would also be well informed on the company Blizzard, its developers and its future plans for games. Are there not subjects (in the broadest sense) in your own life that you have sunk thousands of hours into that have then given you indirect/peripheral awareness of other subjects? I really don't know if I can make this any simpler for you.

Yeah? Cool cool. Quote me on that, please. Either I blacked out, or you're making shit up. Let's find out! This is exactly what I meant in the other post about manipulation what others say and failing to come to a logical conclusion. But I'm willing to waste my words on you and I'll make it explicitly clear how you implied this:

1. I originally wrote

It's pretty simple, Blizzard is backpedaling on an issue to appease a vocal minority.

1. To which you replied that I have no idea what I'm talking about and provided Metzen's quote along with that:

This sensitivity was part of the game's design from the beginning. There is no backpedaling.

1. I then set the bar by pointing out that sexuality is not absent from the game, as seen in the character Widowmaker. I then went on to refute your point by pointing out how characters can be more than just a flat set of several related attributes. To expand upon this: you can have a serious character be funny, a tough one act sad, a "good" one act sexual. I then further pointed out that such a pose is not even unbefitting of Tracer's personality.

That is why this is appropriately called back-peddling. You are trying to attribute the removal of the pose as something that was going to happen all along as backed up by Metzen's quote but somehow that pose made it all the way through the designers and into production and it was only after this post was made that it was removed.

Someone else tried to point out that this line of thinking makes me a conspiracy theorist. Going back to my "irrelevant" history of playing WoW I can cite many different points in the game's development that the Blizzard community managers lied to the player base about their intentions behind various features.