A petition to vary the identify of one in all Overwatch’s upcoming Halloween skins has racked up hundreds of signatures in lower than half a day. The marketing campaign focuses on hero Doomfist’s spooky new legendary pores and skin, which is able to launch as a part of this yr’s Overwatch Halloween Terror occasion.
Doomfists’ pores and skin for this yr’s occasion casts Overwatch’s punchiest hero as a extra aquatic menace. His new look gives fins, gills, and scales, with the pauldron on his proper shoulder gaining one thing of a crustacean-style vibe. The new pores and skin is at the moment known as Swamp Monster, however Overwatch followers really feel there’s the potential for more practical wordplay.
The petition, which was posted to Change.org and started final evening, is titled “Could Doomfist’s fantastic new Swamp Monster Halloween skin be named DOOMFISH instead?” At time of writing, it’s approaching 3,000 signatures, and is high of the Overwatch subreddit with over 18,000 upvotes. Amusingly, the petition can be addressed to “Overwatch Overlord Jeff from the Overwatch team” – Overwatch lead designer Jeff Kaplan to you and me.
Obviously, Blizzard is just not obligated to vary something on the again of this petition. If they did although, it wouldn’t be the primary time. Last yr, when Overwatch’s Junkertown map launched, somebody identified {that a} signal within the game used an American time period – ‘Take-out’ – reasonably than the extra Australian ‘Take-away’. The change was made, and Kaplan even confirmed up within the original Reddit post “to offer a direct apology to the entire country of Australia.”
Just maintain swimming.
Make a splash as SWAMP MONSTER DOOMFIST (Legendary)!
Overwatch Halloween Terror begins Oct 9! pic.twitter.com/aR4EC7Jmn7
— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) October 3, 2018
Overwatch Halloween Terror 2018 begins on October 9, and can run for the remainder of the month, coming to an finish on October 31. You can try the Doomfist pores and skin in query within the tweet above – clearly any individual at Blizzard loved Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water earlier this yr.
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