Valve's Artifact Card "Crack the Whip" [Update: card name changed to Coordinated Assault]

Crack the whip on a black hero? Valve what ru doing?

LOL
However unintentional, that's . . . unfortunate

Wow that's uhm

after all the colors they could've used, they used it for Black Cards? Uhm

Yikes

could be worse but how did nobody notice this and think to rename the card at least

Wow that's... unfortunate.

Kinda funny in its absurdity? Like no one saw that? At all?

That's so blatant I have no idea how that got past anyone on the team.

Zero-ELEC said:

Wow that's... unfortunate.

Kinda funny in its absurdity? Like no one saw that? At all?

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It makes me wonder how many black people are on the artifact team?

That's pretty funny and I'm sure they'll change it when they get people complaining.

I understand the tonedeafness from Valve but if you think about it, the black hero is given the whip and they are cracking it, either to scare/motivate their neighbours -- which can be any colour -- or hurt them.

It's a black card hero though, not a dark-skinned hero. Still kind of a bad association.

No one who participated in the creation of this card saw an issue? Unforced error. Diversify your organizations.

Guys.

Guys.

Are you working too many hours?

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But not nearly as funny (plus probably hopefully lacking in intention).

How did that not ring any bells for anyone?

*face palm*

How do people not catch these things?!?

Like I'm oblivious at times but even I can see the problem here.

Darryl M R said:

No one who participated in the creation of this card saw an issue? Unforced error. Diversify your organizations.

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well stated.

FluxWaveZ said:

Vibes of:



But not nearly as funny (plus probably hopefully lacking in intention).

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This will never not make me laugh

Yeah that sounds like no one caught that.

You could literally fix this by renaming the card.

Whew Chile !!!!

While dissapointed at valve, I am not that surprised.


You telling me the weird libertarian internet company with the questionable moral compass was gamma get kinda a little racist at some point? No way!

Oh dear.

Oh dear oh dear.

What idiot designed it?

I saw tidings of this happening during the PAX stream. Black Hero is also being taken out of context in both directions.

Kade said:

I understand the tonedeafness from Valve but if you think about it, the black hero is given the whip and they are cracking it, either to scare/motivate their neighbours -- which can be any colour -- or hurt them.

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Yeah i think they got caught up explaining the effect to themselves and completly forgot about the implications of having the words black and whip in a card. Could have been fixed by renaming card and changing art but they didnt notice.

Let's see if libertarian Valve actually bothers to fix this, or if they'll think nothing's wrong with it.

How the hell do you not catch that?

How many people did that card have to go through to get approved... and no one caught it?

I doubt this was unintentional

I'll honestly be surpised if they don't change the name especially since it's just a digital card game. Not that surprised they missed the connotations though given how many cards there probably are.

Hagi said:

That's pretty funny and I'm sure they'll change it when they get people complaining.

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I must be missing the funny

Wow, yeh not sure how that got through, come on valve.

Gyroscope said:

I saw tidings of this happening during the PAX stream. Black Hero is also being taken out of context in both directions.

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Anteo said:

Yeah i think they got caught up explaining the effect to themselves and completly forgot about the implications of having the words black and whip in a card. Could have been fixed by renaming card and changing art but they didnt notice.

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They could fix this by renaming the card, but if black hero is a recurring target, they'll inevitably run in to more issues as cards are created that target black heroes. I think they're just going to have to replace the black hero to be another color going by this thread, though white hero doesn't sound any better, or most other colors, like yellow hero.

There is no way this is a coincidence...smh.

This is what Valve means with "Black hero"
This has nothing to do with skin color, at all

i came in here thinking "oh i bet it's just the name of the card and the whole situation is whatever"

how fucking wrong i was

The art from the card reminded me of the song from the old Hobbit movie:

Darryl M R said:

No one who participated in the creation of this card saw an issue? Unforced error. Diversify your organizations.

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Yeah for people wondering why having a diverse range of people on your staff/team is critical, this is-- baseline-- one of the benefits.

Darryl M R said:

No one who participated in the creation of this card saw an issue? Unforced error. Diversify your organizations.

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WhySoDevious said:

How many people did that card have to go through to get approved... and no one caught it?

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I mean.. yeah.

Fularu said:

I must be missing the funny

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That's fine, different strokes and all. It's funny to me that nobody made the connection during production or play testing.

Mozendo said:

I doubt this was unintentional

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Really?

Does help that my first thought to the thread title was:

How in the world did nobody catch that...

Stygr said:

This is what Valve means with "Black hero"
This has nothing to do with skin color, at all

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I mean... I'm pretty sure most people get that.

Heh, like there'd actually be a "Black Hero" class based on ethnicity—with a bunch of variations—in anything.

LOL.
And they even posted it on their official account.
I guess people are brain dead when doing QA check.
Could be any color/element heroes, maybe change the card name....anything.

Stygr said:

This is what Valve means with "Black hero"
This has nothing to do with skin color, at all

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Yeah. I immediately recognized it as "Black" in the same sense as MtG, where it's not about race.

But, the fact that it can be interpreted the other way is a problem and we shouldn't be against Valve changing the card name.

yikes..

hopefully now that it's been pointed out (how did it even make it this far??) they'll change it, and not double down

"As a design philosophy, we've done a lot of work to make it once you learn the game rules you can predict any card interaction."

VALVE

FluxWaveZ said:

I mean... I'm pretty sure most people get that.

Heh, like there'd actually be a "Black Hero" class with a bunch of variations in anything.

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So i don't find the issue, these creeps are already available in Dota 2 and they have a whip.
It's just a coincidence, people are reading too much into this.

LMAO.

How did this get past?