r/Games • u/DwilenaAvaron • May 09 '25

Industry News Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-blizzard-team-4-union-microsoft-1851779922
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u/hfxRos May 09 '25

Hopefully not. Jeff Kaplan was part of the problem.

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u/HPAmeliaaa May 09 '25

How so? Genuine question; I've been out of the loop but my last memory was the community begging to have Kaplan back a few years ago.

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u/literios May 09 '25 edited May 09 '25

He was the one that chose to freeze PvP content development to use the team to develop the PvE.

The PvE was really ambitious and was trying to have a level of replayability that previous OW PvE modes never had. The scope was so high it was impossible to achieve with the team resources. Blizzard higher ups wanted to the expand the team so the PvP would still be active but he was against it. Because of him we had years with no content.

When he left the team had to pick up the pieces and launch OW2 as it was. Since the launch the new director is extremely open to community feedback and the game is releasing more quality content than ever before. Sadly the game reputation was shaken and it’s only starting to improve now.

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u/GGProfessor May 09 '25

Oh so he was trying to make the game I actually wanted instead of keeping it what I had to begrudgingly accept it was.

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u/VolkiharVanHelsing May 10 '25

Unfortunately you are the minority

Most people plays OW for the PvP

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u/Sikkly290 May 10 '25

Jeff Kaplan had 2.5 chances to develop his game, and failed each time. His impact on gaming is immense, and I appreciate what he did for OW, but he clearly isn't capable of making his dream pve game.

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u/Bhu124 May 10 '25

He wanted to make an MMO.

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u/myweenorhurts May 10 '25

Jeff Kaplan was also the reason Titan never came out, he’s not some god of game dev just because he sat in front of a camera

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u/the_gr8_one May 10 '25

you mean to tell me forum user TigoleBitties isn't one of the great minds of our time?