Ask Jeff Kaplan to come back as CEO.
I’ve been a long-time subscriber and want to see the company return to its former place in the industry. I grew up with these games starting with Wc3 and Dota, I like the artwork, the music, podcasts, etc.
The issue isn’t the games, as how the company’s obvious direction is suppressing creativity, which is leading to minimum output results and driving out good talent which you can’t just get the generic version of.
Sorry (not sorry) if that sounds unappetizing from a financial perspective. But who is captaining the ship actually matters and I want to see this company flourish. 
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Not sure if this is satire, but I think guys like him are the last ones Blizzard wants around now.
He wasn’t involved in the scandals, he quit over them.
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no. OW development slowed to a crawl then he started to cater to OWL. think WoW caters to esports now? wait till he comes in. He also brought in brig on his watch.
The dude was game director during TBC and WoTLK before going to Overwatch.
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and im using his OW time as a metric why, He is also the same cloth as Alex and left one year into the investigation because “reasons”
From something I read , he left because of Blizzard wanted to cater to the esports type and just stuck around hoping things would get better. Realized it wouldn’t and like Metzen Noped out .
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Yes,bring him back,finally someone who looks at "Broken " the same way I do !
Everything else idk.
I can bet he knew alot of what alex his buddy buddy did and other stuff. Notice how these people left quietly more or less.
I don’t wanna Jeff around, he fits more the classic-wow crowd. Retail needs less classic influences.
Long story short; he ain’t coming back.
As CEO not to dictate which way the games develop but to manage their development and the company.
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OOps misread lol, tired I guess.
I donno, that’s up to the ones hiring to know who fits what. He can be a good X for Y thing but it may not translate well into a CEO role.
But it’s clear Blizzard has Mike Ybarra as a lead.
They atm don’t have even a president title.
I just don’t see them trying to get Jeff back for anything, he seems to have moved on.
He didn’t. And if he did, he was not involved, team 4 (Overwatch) was apparently squeaky clean and according to people coming out, he really did a lot to protect his team from this stuff.
I say this as someone who is usually a pessimist with Blizzard, but I genuinely do not think it was ultimately his call to move into OWL. He was a Classic WoW guy, he envisioned a world where Overwatch was a fun game. He did not even want gold guns so there was no incentive to play comp. I do not think OWL was his call in the slightest, just something he was made to do.
That being said, he was a good face of Overwatch, but he would probably not be the best CEO.
That’s a bold statement, lol.
I am not saying he did, nor accusing but it’s hard not to know when you share the workspace together for X years before going off to OW.
This just didn’t happen in the last few years don’t forget.
And cool, shielding your employees is all fine but I specifically said that ‘I bet’ he knew a lot what the person he spent a lot of time with, did, or how he was to others etc… a fair amount of people in that company kept a lot of things hush hush.
When was he spending a lot of time with Afrasiabi though? From what I understand, he became this guy after the wide success of WoW in Wrath. Jeff was moving on to working with team 4 (Project TITAN) at that time.
And I genuinely believe he did not know the full extent of it. That video someone linked above goes really in-depth about why Jeff left. I recommend watching it, it is basically accounts from the Overwatch producer.
I watched it, I think you are taking what I say too literally. I’m saying these people knew more than one thinks. And that’s that.
And alex has always been a creep. They hired him during vanilla wow. It wasn’t 'till wotlk [the events were more frequent and or started] because that is when he was able to be in a position of power within the company to start to expose that creepness, that doesn’t develop over night.
Well yeah, I know he was a creep beforehand, but in a predominately male group, I’m sure there were not many people getting that vibe, but who knows. And I’m sure Jeff did know, but I’m also sure he was powerless to stop it.
Sorry if I misconstrued what you said, I just love Jeff 
That’s fine, I’m not attacking him. I ain’t even accusing him in that sense. Just saying he knew what he knew [I assume but hard to think he didn’t know]… and while OP is just throwing their want out there for Jeff to be CEO.
I feel like it’ll never happen at this point 
I really like Jeff, but I don’t think he would be a good CEO. He was a damn good face of Overwatch though. A shame we lost him.
I liked his forum replies from time to time
