You could always use more heroes, and so can we… Jeffy is the real hero.
WoW got Metzen back, can we have Kaplan?
Thanks 
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No thanks, things were not particularly great when he was in charge.
Being likeable is not the same as being competent.
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Jeff has most likely moved onto different things in life. I doubt he’ll ever come back even if Microsoft/Blizzard asked him to.
Chris Metzen continued to be somewhat involved in Blizzard even after he left his full time roll as Creative Director. He continued to voice Thrall and other characters in WoW. I’m glad Chris is fully back at Blizzard today, but Jeff has departed from the company completely it seems.
I do sometimes wonder what Jeff is up to these days. I’m sure he is living a good life in private with his family.
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I think that is just a question of how much you’re willing to pay 
Jeff didn’t have any interest in OW pvp even when he was at Blizz.
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Or maybe just let Jeff enjoy his retirement.
The thing is, he was always still within Blizzard. He’s the VA for Bastion.
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He is also the VA for Thrall so he was never going to really be going anywhere.
Microsoft please help them to introduce appropriate anti-cheat.
Kernel driver that loads during boottime to ensure system integrity whenever the system is running.
Scan for external hardware!
Secure boot requirement, driver signature enforcement.
Mandatory TPM.
Execution on virtual machines should be completely prevented.
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I’d pay just for the christmas fireside streams to come back
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Yule Log with Jeff Kaplan was the best
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I don’t think he is the guy to save this game.
He and his team were completely clueless what to do with the game after it launched.
The first things to add were hero limits and then non team modes like DM.
There were weekly events that also sucked big time.
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Let me be very honest one point of view: Kapan was not a 100% saint. The advantages were there, no one denies it:
- He communicated really well with the community. The forum was the first meeting point, not Twitter or external sites. he knew you had to present yourself as an OW player, not just any user He had ideas for the characters, even funny ones. And he made no secret of his personal tastes;
- He knew how to analyze the time spent playing with the identity of the game itself, between collecting and discovering the game world;
- He didn’t belittle the experimentation. The competitive mode was TRULY a sacred environment where you would hardly deactivate a hero who had not been tested (Experimental card or PTR);
But he had just as many flaws to address:
- He Did not recognize the fact that he insisted too much on the idea of the tank as a target that accumulates damage too helplessly. OW2 made the role of tanking a little more strategic, and frankly I think Kaplan would have really realized the fear of “the only usable tanks in 5v5 are shielders”, which OW2 is effectively avoiding. With a whole other series of problems… but shielding is a problem cleared by pure battlefield strategy, not by the excessive nerfs of OW1 tanks;
- Kaplan didn’t take responsibility for problem heroes well. I still remember very well an interview in which they talked about Baptiste insinuating that it was the community that asked for Brigitte in its version 1.0. That wasn’t true: the community wanted “more tank and more support”, not both in ONE character. OW2 for example with lifeweaver took the courage to immediately rework the game mechanics instead of pretending that it was really good, it had a more immediate fix than waiting for the reworks of Symmetra or mercy during OW1 gen.
- Kaplan was too amused by the air of mystery he was spamming. Sometimes it worked, but too many times it didn’t, and this annoyed everyone. At a certain point in the forums he responded with “we are secretly talking about very secret things”, and then in the next update he said “I’m sorry, nothing to say” with the face of a sorry student who can’t repeat the lesson. His appearances after the announcement of ow2 to say nothing were completely useless. or again, too focused on how good it was to spam the OWLeague.
Keller can definitely improve his decision-making presence better than him with the community, he is too distant in my opinion. But Kaplan also had his share of negligence. we are nostalgic for he simply because we know he better than Keller.
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Remember when developer updates were not dev blogs/website news posts but actual YouTube videos with the Overwatch Lead speaking to the camera while showcasing changes?
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Only if Kaplan goes back to the Wow Team, when jeff worked on the ow team everyone complain about him, pretty sure it would happen again if he actually did come back to work on OW.
Tbh that didn’t mean much since it was repeat of what was already released and repeat of this and that being “so cool”.
If anything, he has been a good as a spoke person but that is about it.
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It’s certainly possible but I wouldn’t expect him to return
aaron keller isnt bright and i think there was less problems when papa jeff was around and tbh i dont think aaron keller cares to much about stuff
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overwatch 1 was a massive success, jeff was a likeable and competent leader, he has proven himself as such
would i want him back though? not necessarily, i think he deserves a break from the stress he had to endure from dealing with this community over the years
SERIOUSLY - please.
The way things are going this game is dead.
I think they should just bring him back to cameo on a few Developer Updates videos.
But he doesn’t actually need to be back on the dev team.
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