Overwatch 2’s Jeff Kaplan Shares That “Leaks Were ‘Extremely Demoralising” To The Developers

Jeff Kaplan provides some insight into how Overwatch  developers feel about the leaks.

Kotaku Australia conducted a follow up interivew with Overwatch lead designer Jeff Kaplan after the official reveal of Overwatch 2 at Blizzcon this past week. He labelled leaks as”extremely demoralizing” for developers and explained that they can have unintended impressions without context.

When you’re trying so hard to deliver something for somebody and to have it be spoiled in a way that’s not coherent. That’s the part that bothers us the most, where people are not given all the information and all of the context that they need to understand what we’re doing.

Kaplan also noted the artists’ reactions to uploads of low quality images by the leaker:

Our artists are heartbroken: They take such care to make the art look beautiful, and then we get some crappy version of what the art looks like … and then people are like, ‘I don’t know it doesn’t look that good’ and we’re like, no it does, it looks amazing! It’s just a crappy screenshot that someone took, so it can be a bit demoralizing.

Overwatch 2 is scheduled to release at the same time as it releases on other consoles.

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