The Valve artifact brings changes to the map with racist implications

Earlier this week, Valve revealed another new card coming to his Dota 2card game based on, Artifact, nicknamed "Crack The Whip".

Today, he announced that he had changed the name of the map to "Assault Coordinated" following some interpretations that the map was a reference to slavery.

This card immediately wraps up a big shot, then continues to do so. When you play Crack the Whip, it fires once right after being played. If you play an untested Grunt next to the Whipped Hero, it will trigger again and the Grunt will receive the bonus. pic.twitter.com/qXflFpdOZb

– Artifact (@PlayArtifact) September 26, 2018

Crack the Whip has been renamed Assault Coordinated.

– Artifact (@PlayArtifact) September 28, 2018

For those who are not aware: after the revelation, Internet parties and members of the gaming community have taken advantage of social media to talk about the card. The reactions were minimal and, beyond a handful of people, nothing particularly required Valve to change the name of the map, but apparently, he still spotted the problems and decided to go back and forth. remediate.

It was never assumed that it was an intentional reference to slavery, but simply an unfortunate negligence on the part of the Valve team. In other words, it was not as many forks as it was simply a confusion about the fact that an apparently seemingly obvious allusion had not been noticed.

Nevertheless, the name has been changed, but otherwise the rest of the map and its description are apparently the same.

Beyond the update above, Valve has not provided any kind of statement about the situation.

Artifact is about to release on PC next month, November 28th. In the meantime, a mobile version should arrive in the next year, in 2019. Below you will find out more about the game thanks to an official Valve pitch:

"Artifact is a game of digital cards from the makers of Dota 2 and steam. A collaboration between legendary card game creator Richard Garfield and game and technology maker Valve (Dota 2, Steam), Artifact offers the deepest gameplay and the most faithful experience ever seen in a trading card game. It contains more than 280 cards in the shipping set, including 44 heroes. "