After the game’s beta dropped on May 2, Pornhub saw a %817 increase for Overwatch porn searches. Of course, over the last few months Overwatch’s characters have been the subjects of a lot of porn. It would be one thing if the source filmmakers were trying to profit off Blizzard’s work, but all of these videos were made for fun. Also mentioned by Spornm is that there are many non-pornographic SFM videos that use the games models, and these haven’t been taken down. So it’s not fair to say that these artists completely stole the assets from the game, as they have been heavily modified.
Fun fact Blizzard didn’t make that part…Often the model makers add a ton of extra little things and all of this isn’t done in sfm.” For one there is the obvious fact that the models are nude or can be made to be nude. As user Spornm explained “The models used in the most porn videos have been modified, a lot. Many news sites have posted how the creators used assets from the game, but according to the Reddit post that is not completely true. One of the source filmmakers who was hit with copyright infringement posted his response on the Overwatch Reddit. It seems that Source Filmmaker is being targeted specifically due to creators using assets from the game. What’s interesting is that these copyright claims are only being sent to people who used Source Filmmaker, not artists who hand drew the characters in erotic situations. Blizzard might have hired them to protect the Overwatch assets online, which in this case were used for porn. Now these notices haven’t been handed out by Blizzard but from Irdeto, a digital copyright protection agency that protects a company’s digital assets. Many of the creators that used source filmmaker were recently hit with a cease and desist like the one below.
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This software allows you to take models from games and animate them, so there were a lot of Overwatch videos that had the characters do a variety of naughty things. So many different creators have been making Overwatch pornography using Steam’s Source Filmmaker software. I'm not a gamer so all I know about Overwatch is that it's created an entire new group of characters for people to draw naked. And while erotic fan art is nothing new for the internet, some creators have gotten a cease and desist. I’m sure at this point most people are familiar with Blizzard’s Overwatch and the success the game has had commercially and critically, but the game has also been very popular in the world of erotic fan art.