It’s not OK: A harmless gesture disappeared from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone – players are wondering about the reasons

Fresh update for multiplayer shooters Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Warzone brought with it a somewhat unexpected surprise – animation with a hard “Ok“that users could complete as part of matches.

Players did not immediately notice the loss, since there was no mention of the removal of game emotion anywhere. In connection with silence from Infinity ward assumptions about where and for what reason the gesture “Ok“disappeared from the game, fans have to build on their own.

The most likely answer lies on the surface:and over the past few years, the famous gesture has gradually become associated with racism, namely, according to some, it has become a hidden symbol “white suprematism“. The idea about this grew out of banal Internet memes, but with due desire, any joke or concept can be interpreted in the most serious way, and even fingers folded together can turn into a weapon of struggle in the war for racial superiority.

In favor of this, it can be said that it was precisely such a gesture in the courtroom that he used Brenton tarrantwho committed a terrorist attack throughout the world last year in New Zealand. On the other hand, this, like many other actions and statements, “New Zealand shooter“, were a fairly transparent provocation.

However, from this one can easily understand desire. Infinity ward to distance oneself from undesirable associations, especially against the background of the studio’s desperate attempts to combat racism and intolerance, which it is making as part of its projects.

Release date Call of Duty: Modern Warfare took place on October 25 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. And in March there was a separate royal battle Call of Duty: Warzone. Read our reviews on all components of the shooter here, here and here.

See also: “Why is it so expensive?” The increase in the price of the computer version of Horizon: Zero Dawn on Steam upset Russian players.

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