Why did Overwatch change Cassidy’s name? #dejatwo

[dejatwo]

“McCree sounds better” Okay? Well idk about you but IM pretty happy not immortalizing a 🍇ist, but thats just me, you do you man

[Monikitty]

I love that approach tho "You can't know if someone you referenced turns out to be bad so fuck it we'll just never reference anyone ever again"

[devastatheseeker]

Correction

All blizzard games now have a policy of not referencing staff anymore (maybe extending to other people too but I know it's staff for sure)

They also removed references to staff in wow as far as I'm aware.

[moonfirechan]

They should have given him a cooler name. You can't replace a cool sounding name with a mediocre one after years with the old one. Failing that they should've gone with James Cassidy and added a backstory of him naming himself after two notorious outlaws.

[Nathan.Morentintintint]

Me and my friends are still gonna call Cassidy “Arthur Morgan”

[summer]

Before the controversy I always thought he was named after the mad dog McCree game

[hope_]

It’s annoying because Cassidy is the most hottest character in the game 😩

[xander]

today was quite literally the moment I found out that Mcree was named after a real person and that he was renamed to Cassidy.

[thespaceshuttlechallenger]

Nah I'm still gonna call him McCree because I'm not gonna let Blizzard pretend that they didn't enable an entire SA/SH culture to exist in their studio. Then every time someone asks "who's McCree" I get to tell them the story :)

[heyimkreg]

> “I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt”
> speaks in the most condescending and superior way possible

[heheheiamasuperstarwarrior]

That's not cole Cassidy.
Thats yeehaw cowboy man

[thefelinedflats]

I was actually quite sad they had to change the name cause I thought the name fit the concept of the character really well. I'm not at all against the decision to said change and fully understand why they had to. In fact, I agree that was the right thing to do. I am still sad about the whole needing the change in the first place. I do often refer to the character as Mc-Cassidy though cause as OW1 launch day player and since, it was hard for me to change the auto-reference that I've grown accustomed to and almost always caught myself mid-word when calling him out in-game while fighting. I guess it kinda stuck since then.

[PapaTom.]

That ain't Cole Cassidy, that's McFlurry

[mylandaigle]

McCree isnt exactly a rare last name. Changing his first name I could get but changing the whole thing and removing the name that makes the character recognizable? Bad play by Blizzard.

[Xeraghusta]

My head cannon is that Cassidy is not McCree. That McCree straight-up died, and Cassidy is just an imposter.

[NikoPancakes]

Omg your hair is absolutely GORGEOUS what!?

[maxwellsings]

goddamn overwatch fell off hard. im glad they changed the name tho

[renomiz]

Worst part is almost no one would have known it was named after someone till they changed it. Having the same name is such a non-issue. Changing the name is literally the only reason people think it was a problem, have to be a special breed to not be able to separate fictional and non-fiction characters who happen to share the same name💀

[HELLBENT]

Im so happy that Blizzard realized retconning a fictional character literally solved the whole scandal. brilliant decision and not at all a disregard of what really happened. 😊😊😊

[MysticMorigan]

I cant blame them at all for changing the name, but Jessie McCree was a really cool name for a Cowboy. Mad Dog McCree was a old arcade light shooter game (game grumps played it once) and the first name Jessie brings to mind Jessie James.