Jeff Kaplan calls Overwatch 2 "one of my biggest mistakes," names devs who "didn't like PvP" and executive pressure as reasons for troubled development
Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan described the development of Overwatch 2 as one of his biggest mistakes, citing internal team members who disliked PvP and pressure from Activision management for a 2019 release. Kaplan also mentioned that initial ideas for Overwatch 2 were conceived as early as 2015, prior to the original game's launch.
- Entities
- Company: Blizzard Entertainment
- Company: Activision
- Game: Overwatch 2
- Person: Jeff Kaplan
- Person: Michael Chu
- Person: Chris Metzen
- Topic: Game Development
- Topic: Player versus Player
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