
{"id":4845,"date":"2021-04-20T14:09:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T18:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/20\/overwatch-director-jeff-kaplan-leaving-blizzard-entertainment-the-esports-observer\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T21:25:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T01:25:21","slug":"overwatch-director-jeff-kaplan-leaving-blizzard-entertainment-the-esports-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/20\/overwatch-director-jeff-kaplan-leaving-blizzard-entertainment-the-esports-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch Director Jeff Kaplan Leaving Blizzard Entertainment \u2013 The Esports Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blizzard Leisure<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> introduced Tuesday that Jeff Kaplan, director of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overwatch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is leaving the corporate. Along with his departure,\u00a0 Aaron Keller, one of many members of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overwatch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> govt workforce will likely be stepping in as the sport\u2019s director.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a part of the announcement, Blizzard shared a notice written by Kaplan to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overwatch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> followers:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;m leaving Blizzard Leisure after 19 superb years. It was actually the glory of a lifetime to have the chance to create worlds and heroes for such a passionate viewers. I wish to specific my deep appreciation to everybody at blizzard who supported our video games, our recreation groups and our gamers. However I wish to say a particular because of the great recreation builders that shared within the journey of creation with me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBy no means settle for the world because it seems to be. all the time dare to see it for what it might be. I hope you do the identical.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kaplan has been with Blizzard for the previous 19 years, having labored in quite a few roles together with as a lead recreation designer, govt director of recreation design, and as recreation director of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overwatch<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"espor-teo-ad-space-article-footer\" id=\"espor-521172423\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ESR21-970x90-digital-ad-set4.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ESR21-970x90-digital-ad-set4.png 970w, https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ESR21-970x90-digital-ad-set4-300x28.png 300w, https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ESR21-970x90-digital-ad-set4-768x71.png 768w, https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ESR21-970x90-digital-ad-set4-600x56.png 600w, https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ESR21-970x90-digital-ad-set4-750x70.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" width=\"970\" height=\"90\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>\n                                                            <\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/esportsobserver.com\/overwatch-jeff-kaplan-leaving\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=overwatch-jeff-kaplan-leaving\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Blizzard Leisure introduced Tuesday that Jeff Kaplan, director of Overwatch, is leaving the corporate. Along with his departure,\u00a0 Aaron Keller, one of many members of the Overwatch govt workforce will likely be stepping in as the sport\u2019s director. As a part of the announcement, Blizzard shared a notice written by Kaplan to Overwatch followers: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[262,338,4011,65,4002,4003,3208,66,1610],"class_list":["post-4845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-esport","tag-blizzard","tag-director","tag-entertainment","tag-esports","tag-jeff","tag-kaplan","tag-leaving","tag-observer","tag-overwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dviouscontent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}