Do we know much about Aaron Keller?

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Aaron is a great guy, you can’t fault him for anything regarding this, in fact we should all be grateful that he’s taking over.

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Well, surely he can’t do nearly as bad a job as Jeff did with Overwatch, right?

Ah, who am I kidding. It’s impossible to patch up this sinking ship. The captain’s already gone down and the first mate has taken over.

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hes been at blizzard for 18 years, give him chance, he is a great guy

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i don’t like this situation. it won’t lead to anything good.

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yeah, he seems great, nobody will replace jeff, but as long as activision doesnt step in or that jeff left on bad terms, the game is in great hands

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Hour ago I didnt know he existed

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https://www.scribd.com/article/449021175/Aaron-Keller

  1. worked on environments for Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver at Crystal Dynamics
  2. Lead designer of WOW
  3. Lead level designer of The Wraith of the Lich King
  4. Moved to Project Titan in 2008 (shuttered in 2013)
  5. Overwatch -maintain core vision of characters as assistant director

He sounds like he knows a lot of stuff about video games and how to make them. I’m excited to see new adventures await us!

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And you seem to have done very little research, if any.

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Aaron seems to have a good history with video games, change isn’t always bad.

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I assume Jeff personally picked Aaron to take over for him so I have faith in him. My biggest worry is that Activision is gonna try to pressure him to include more monetization in OW2.

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“This is Aaron Keller from the Overwatch Team.”

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I freaking love dinoflask videos

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You’re right.
So you mean Keller’s gaming past is exclusively wow ?

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I assume he will do whatever bobby Kotick wants with no compromise and no pushback.

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Will Aaron call out people on the forum for lying about their bans? :thinking:

Asking for a friend.

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He worked with Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver and has been with Overwatch since the beginning, having worked with the Kings Row map.

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I think you’re too quick to push negative things when you know nothing about how things will be.

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Or maybe keller’s gaming/design experience is exclusively RPG and MMORPG.
In other words : scenarios, rewards over time, disbalanced pvp, constant updates.
While OW is all about : Skills, rewards over dedication, balanced pvp, precise updates.

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he seemed fairly passionate about stuff in the blizzcon thing so he probably will do just fine

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He’s worked with Overwatch since the beginning.
He helped create King’s Row…

I told you that…

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