Jeff kaplan is leaving blizzard

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I do understand. This isn’t an discussion of a random dev leaving, he is a pioneer of the games we like to play. Including wow.

They have no more original devs. So like that’s why we are seeing the product we have now. I understand if you’re really happy with the direction blizzard is going in now - and maybe this wouldn’t matter to a newer blizz gamer

But don’t say we are over dramatic that a really influential part of the company is leaving. You’re trying to create a one sided argument because you don’t care. Which isn’t cool imo

To imply these original blizz folk leaving doesn’t have a permanent impact on company values and player experience is Crazy. I also think all these people leaving is a sign something is amiss.

People don’t leave their company en MassE like this to usually unless something is wrong.

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So you’re saying OW2 might actually be good?

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ill poop my pants if he goes to deamheaven with mike…

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Mercy hotfixed nerfed again by Kaplan before leaving.

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Overwatch 2 is NOT looking good if this is happening lmao

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I thought everyone hated him like 10-12 years ago. Guessing things change :stuck_out_tongue:

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Probably but I tend to not over think these types of actions.

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Love hate relationship i think it was…He did develop that STV pages quest thing :D…

Just sad to see a OG part ways.

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Openly curious why he’d step down at this point in time or was this something internally planned so time ago and they’ve just now decided to go public with it.

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He’s been in a loooooong time.

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I’m not a new blizz player.

I think you are being quite the over-dramatic person and no I’m not doing a one sided argument. You have clearly demonstrated by;

to not understand how company values work. I made no mention of ‘player experience’. This is me telling you, that OG devs have no impact on the values of a multi billion dollar company that is more or less and has been dictated by higher ups for the better part of two decades.

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Hey maybe they’ll actually balance their game now instead of tokenize another character

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Kaplan gone is sad, but this means more for Overwatch than WoW. As much people bring up Dreamhaven – they need to announce something first to actually be worth something.

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Man Blizzard is bleeding developers lol. If people think this is business as usual then they’re in complete denial.

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YAWN. Doesnt matter. The new guy will be ok

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Except the the guy who directed FF7 Yoshinori Kitase is still at Square Enix and was producer on FF7 Remake.

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We don’t know why. Could be an internal reason. Could be he’s just tired, been working for blizz for 19 years now. We really don’t know, unfortunately.

Probably not a great sign for OW2 though IMO.

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Papa Jeff was the last bastion, no more yule logs

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In memory of better times:

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I dont trust that man after XIII.