Blizzard commissioned a bunch of Overwatch porn in the run up to that game's release. The Internet has gotten horny for fictional characters many times - but the horniness for the OW cast was on a whole different level and the output of smut artists in that period boosted 3D animated porn from a niche of a niche to one of the most popular categories.
I'd believe this if only because it implies that Randy Pitchford heard about this and tried to replicated it for whatever his game that had the word "BADASS" all over it was called, but instead of paying anyone he just made a subreddit and tweeted about it like "Holy golly gee look what they are doing to our video game on the internet!".
Randy Pitchford's company made an Overwatch clone called Battleborn and there was an NSFW sub for it. Weirdly enough, he publicly tweets the direct link to the sub sometime during launch or after when popularity was already waning.
Blizzard commissioned a bunch of Overwatch porn in the run up to that game's release. The Internet has gotten horny for fictional characters many times - but the horniness for the OW cast was on a whole different level and the output of smut artists in that period boosted 3D animated porn from a niche of a niche to one of the most popular categories.
I'd believe this if only because it implies that Randy Pitchford heard about this and tried to replicated it for whatever his game that had the word "BADASS" all over it was called, but instead of paying anyone he just made a subreddit and tweeted about it like "Holy golly gee look what they are doing to our video game on the internet!".
Randy Pitchford's company made an Overwatch clone called Battleborn and there was an NSFW sub for it. Weirdly enough, he publicly tweets the direct link to the sub sometime during launch or after when popularity was already waning.