Current Events > Jeff Kaplan leaves Blizzard Entertainment

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https://twitter.com/PoorlyAgedStuff/status/1384898591521714178

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i'm going to take this as a sign that overwatch 2 is going to be absolutely stuffed with microstransactions and dlcs now.

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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

lmao

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Darmik posted...

So basically you believe that Blizzard in 2018 just decided on their own accord to make a bigger deal about finances and brought in a bunch of people from Activision to oversee more of the company?

so basically you believe that Activision in 2018 just decided to fire Mike, but did so without anyone knowing. The forced blizzard to hire their guy (3 years retroactively) "from activision" when, that was his first job "in" activision before coming from P&G. Then started asserting their influence, without anyone knowing. While still allowing blizzard to work at blizzard pace and support games that offer no profit. You think activision gives a fuck about quality and is going to can a starcraft shooter and just let 2 years of development get eaten instead of recouping what they can?
Darmik posted...

Just to summarise what has happened to Blizzard in the last few years
- In 2016 Rob Pardo, the former chief creative officer at Blizzard and lead designer of World of Warcraft, started Bonfire Studios.

- Joining Pardo in leaving Blizzard was lead level designer for Overwatch David Adams, Battle.net engineering team lead Matthew Versluys, and Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls director Joshua Mosqueira.

- In 2018 Ben Brode, the former director of Hearthstone, left Blizzard to form Second Dinner alongside Hearthstone executive producer Hamilton Chu. Second Dinner, which also consists of other former long time Blizzard employees such as technical artist Kyle Harrison, esports and Blizzcon program manager Nicki Broderick, senior concept artist Jomaro Kindred, Heartstone production director Yong Woo, and senior game producer of World of Warcraft & director of Creative Development Jason Stilwell, announced in 2019 that they would be working on a game within the Marvel universe.

- In 2020 former Blizzard president Mike Morhaime announced Dreamhaven. Dreamhaven is a new video game development company made up of two studios: Moonshot and Secret Door.

- Moonshot is led by former Blizzard executive producer Jason Chayes, and the team includes former Hearthstone creative director Ben Thompson, and StarCraft 2 and Heroes of the Storm director Dustin Browder.

- Secret Door is being led by former Hearthstone producer Chris Sigaty, Heroes of the Storm game director Alan Dabiri, and Hearthstone game director Eric Dodds.

- 2020 also had the announcement of Frost Giant Studios. The team is being led by former StarCraft 2 production director Tim Morten, lead campaign designer of WarCraft 3: The Frozen Throne Tim Campbell, and senior program manager at Blizzard esports Cara LaForge.

I'm sure it's completely normal for a studio to hemorrhage most of its leadership in the space of a few years as they consistently start up their own studios that constantly hire other people who also left

Now we have this. The Overwatch director who randomly left in the middle of the sequels development with barely a word said to the community

now do the previous 10 years and the 10 years before that, blizzard always has talent leaving. People like you that want to claim the sky is falling always go THIS IS THE DEATH OF BLIZZARD!!!

https://imgur.com/2gkUuEz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTzQsG3azRs

And 5 years later, Bonfire studios still not even a teaser of what they're working on.

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I Like Toast posted...

so basically you believe that Activision in 2018 just decided to fire Mike, but did so without anyone knowing.

No. Read the article.

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i have, i read what's actually facts and what's assumptions for click baits. But i see you're avoiding your broken logic again.

Activision controls blizzard, but is eating money by canceling products, not making them churn out annual titles, letting overwatch 2 be delayed into near irrelevance, spending money on devs updating followers in D3, because that's just such activision like behavior. That's logic to darmik because it fuels his narrative. Activision is controlling blizzard to act like blizzard!!!!!!!!!!!!


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