Overwatch 2’s “sexual harassment simulator” made a brief comeback

Trigger warning: sexual assault and harassment.

inappropriate Monitoring 2 Game She reappeared, but not the same Get excited. The mode, called Sexual Harassment Simulation, has been played enough times that it emerged as one of the most popular modes of the weekend for some players, according to computer games , That spotted reappearing before a blizzard quickly pulled it back.

Another “sexual harassment simulator” was discovered in October 2022, but both tasked players with dropping the ball Monitoring 2Her heroines (like Mercy and Widowmaker) while playing Cole Cassidy’s cowboy and repeatedly patting their bodies, it seems, like computer games stated, with the word “rape…” so that the character in question would be labeled “pregnant” as the AI-controlled Torbjorn is supposed to play the role of the child. This is disgusting on so many levels. It’s not even funny, especially because players are forced to play as Cassidy, Formerly known as McCreethe same name as the isolated Activision Blizzard developer who was involved in Controversial “Cosby Suite” encounters.

A screenshot of the custom mode has been posted at Overwatchofficial subreddit by user Joyolo 13who simply asked: “What’s in God’s name?”

Lol I remember seeing this every single day [Overwatch 1]Redditor sw1nky said. “I can’t say I’m surprised it’s still there, [to be honest]. “

“McCree is back in the game I think,” said user FoulfrogBsc.

Kotaku Could not find custom game mode in Monitoring 2 As it turns out, Blizzard has taken the “Sexual Harassment Simulator” offline — for now. So, it seems that the company is aware of the existence of such a situation but may struggle to prevent it from appearing again in the game.

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“Inappropriate or explicit content has absolutely no place in our game,” a Blizzard spokesperson told PC Gamer when the outlet asked about the first version of the mode last year. “We immediately removed the user-created game mode once made aware of its existence. We are continually working to improve automatic filters to prevent inappropriate user-created content, and manually removing any that are not caught by the system.”

Kotaku reached out to Activision Blizzard for comment.

While this is at least the second time the “sexual harassment simulator” has popped up in Overwatch 2 specifically, players noted that a similar mode existed in some form in the original Overwatch game. At the time, players PSAs posted To warn the community about offensive content. Of course, not all player-created game modes are terrible. But what is troubling is that this issue has come up more than once in a few months.