Overwatch changes name of McCree to Cole Cassidy
Overwatch has announced that the character formerly known as Jesse McCree will be called Cole Cassidy as of October 26th.
The name change is a result of the countless allegations of harassment and workplace toxicity levied against Overwatch’s publisher Activision-Blizzard over the past year.
Initially, Jesse McCree was named after a Blizzard dev of the same name. However, calls for McCree’s name to be changed began after it was revealed that the game dev had reportedly been involved in Blizzard’s infamous “Cosby Suite”.
In August the Overwatch team officially announced that McCree would be receiving a name change.
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In the post on Twitter, the Overwatch team stated that “as we continue to discuss how we best live up to our values and to demonstrate our commitment to creating a game world that reflects them, we believe it’s necessary to change the name of the hero currently know as McCree to something that better represents what Overwatch stands for.
That name that better represents Overwatch turned out to be Cole Cassidy. As Overwatch took to Twitter once again to announce the new name of the cowboy character.
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“The first thing a renegade loses is their name, and this one gave up his a long time ago- to make the new Overwatch better he – to make things right – he had to be honest with his team and himself. The cowboy rode into the sunset, and Cole Cassidy faced the world at dawn.
The name Cole Cassidy will be live in the game on October 26th. But until then fans will be able to enter the game of Overwatch to say their goodbyes to the Cowboy they once knew.
