Just to give you an idea, Jeff is the reason why ALL of our skins, sprays, emotes, and anything we’ve unlocked in OW1 will be able to transfer to OW2. Activision wanted a hard reset. Can you imagine how peeved people would be if this happened? 50$ blizzcon skins down the toilet.
Heres the link to the article if you want to read it yourself.
(h ttps://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/11/convincing-blizzard-to-merge-overwatch-1-and-2-was-very-challenging/)
And from what I’ve read on the forums, hes also a major reason why this game isn’t riddled to the brim with microtransactions.
Ironically, I made a warning about this three years ago when legendary skins were slowly being put behind a paywall (And it has only gotten worse, ironically.)
Expect this a whole lot more, assuming Jeff really was defending against this kind of thing.
Believing the forums is sort of your first mistake. The forums employ a circular logic in order to basically argue that no matter happens, even if it doesnt, Blizzard wants to monetize everything and when that doesnt happen its only because people preemptively complained.
Google “Jeff Kaplan’s Blizzard career in his own words”. It was a really good read.
That man really cared about mmorpgs and games in general, he played the crap out of them. I don’t think there are many people at Blizzard left that can say they’re as great a man as Jeff.
World of Warcraft was the great wall keeping the investors at bay. It’s finally crumbling after almost 17 years and that cashflow needs to be replaced.
Don’t tell people they are wrong / mistaken, just on an opinion-based topic. It makes you look like a jerk. Respect other people opinions, you are not god.