

In fact, it seems like quite a few people either believe the name was chosen because it just sounds like a basic cowboy name or because it is perhaps a reference to some famous McCree from a Western. While Blizzard hints at the reason behind this name change in that tweet, many people are still wondering what the problem with the name McCree is in the first place. There’s a lot of reactions to this information floating around the internet at the moment, but I’d say that the most common reaction I’ve seen is confusion. Since we want to integrate this change into that story arc, we will be delaying the new arc until later this year and instead launch a new FFA map this September.” In the near term, we had planned to kick off a narrative arc in September supported with new story and game content, of which McCree was a key part. “We realize that any change to such a well-loved and central hero in the game’s fiction will take time to roll out correctly, and we’ll share updates as this work progresses.


“We believe it’s necessary to change the name of the hero currently known as McCree to something that better represents what Overwatch stands for,” says the Overwatch team in a recent tweet. Blizzard surprised some Overwatch players today by announcing that they have decided to change the name of one of the game’s original playable heroes: the gunslinging cowboy known simply as McCree.
