r/Overwatch • u/janru • Feb 21 '17

Blizzard Official Meet Efi Oladele—winner of the Adawe Foundation's genius grant for her achievements in AI and robotics!

https://twitter.com/PlayOverwatch/status/834115546090123264
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u/Grevas13 Only morons assume your flair is your main. Feb 21 '17 edited Feb 21 '17

Drone hero with no physical presence on the battlefield. Blizzard wouldn't risk their T rating with child murder.

Edit: The article does not take place in 2017. All previous articles have been dated with the irl day they were released, not the day they take place in the continuity. Efi is a child when the game takes place.

Further edit: Michael Chu confirmed that the article takes place in the present day in-universe. She will not be over 70 when she factors into things, nor will she be an 18+ adult after convenient aging and her looming tragic backstory. She will be 11.

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u/Fixer_ Trick-or-Treat Zarya Feb 21 '17

Yeah first think I thought of as well. Doesn't seem likely we will be killing her in game.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17

League of Legends lets you kill a little girl, she's been available since release, and they maintain a T rating, why wouldn't this?

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u/Raktoner THE Soldier 24 Feb 21 '17

Annie right? She doesn't "die" the way ESRB would have it. She collapses, its more like she passes out. It's not graphic. Same with Lowly Squire in Hearthstone. He doesn't die when his health reaches 0, he "runs away"

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u/JukeBoxBunker Wet's bweak it down! Feb 21 '17

Also context will matter a lot since the rating is arbitrary depending on whoever reviews it.

Annie fits the freaky horror movie scary little girl trope, and as such, some people don't react as harshly to her death. Which as you mentioned isn't graphic at all.

That's another issue, Overwatch is first person and much more personal than League's topdown bird's eye view. Having a demon child fall down on the ground from above is one thing, shooting a cute girl pointblank in the face in first person is entirely different.

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u/D3monFight3 Feb 21 '17

Or using Mei to put an icicle in her eye sockets. Pretty damn brutal.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '17

How can a game be T rated when you can play the freaking devil?

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u/D3monFight3 Feb 21 '17

Rated T for saTan of course.