Asmongold slams “condescending” Diablo 2 Resurrected Amazon changes
Diablo 2 Resurrected’s iteration of the iconic Amazon class has sparked mass debate among fans of the title, and Asmongold has weighed in with his thoughts on her in-game changes.
If there’s one character that will go down in Diablo history as being one of the most controversial, it’s Diablo 2 Resurrected’s warrior queen, theAmazon. Initially slammed for being unattractive by prospective players, Blizzardfixed her in-game model with a little bit of plastic surgery. While this helped her regain her status as Sanctuary’s resident exotic beauty, subsequent admittance from the game’s developers that they didtone down some aspects of the gamehas left players disgruntled once more. One of these is Twitch star Asmongold, who has actively criticizedBlizzard’s removal of inappropriate contentin their games for some time.
Asmongold slams Diablo 2 Resurrected Amazon changes
While it has never been confirmed that the changes to the Amazon’s curvaceous form were in response to the current lawsuit against Activision Blizzard for fostering a “pervasive frat boy culture” within the workplace, therecent removal of hyper-sexualized contentsuggests that it may have been a factor.
“I heard they changed the Amazon’s face in Diablo 2,” Asmongold notes in a September 22stream. “Who cares? I do.” He goes on to clarify that “I know a lot of people might not really care, but I do. I don’t like to see this happen, this revisionism. I want to play a video game. The extent that they’re going to change the game based off of them trying to make up for the fact they molest people at their office is just, it’s insulting to me as a player. I think that it’s also condescending. It’s patronizing.”
