If you’re a long time Blizzard fan and you have recently played Heroes of the Storm, you might be one of those who noticed that Starcraft’s Tychus Findlay is missing his signature cigar hanging out from the side of his mouth. Recently, Blizzard has explained to Reddit, that this has something to do with the rating of the game.
Blizzard has a number of guidelines to adhere to since HotS is published with a teen rating in multiple regions. Findlay couldn’t both keep the teen rating and smoke at the same time at some regions. Therefore, Blizzard can either remove the cigar, or make 2 versions of the character – the smoking and non-smoking one.
According to Blizzard, “Making 2 versions means more data management, multiple duplicates of the asset (if we update an animation, it has to propagate to all versions) such as the the death ragdoll model, The facial animations, his morph into the Odin, and apply that process to every skin as well. This mountain of work affects multiple departments and has to be addressed every time we’d adjust Tychus.”
This is not the first time that Blizzard, in order to conform to rules in different regions, had to alter a Heroes of the Storm character’s appearance. In some regions, Blizzard has to remove or change skeletal or bloody elements from a character.
A developer in Blizzard says, “It is a full time job managing those exceptions, and the less we have to manage, the more time we can spend making more game!”
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