{"id":91348,"date":"2026-10-15T19:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91348"},"modified":"2026-10-15T21:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:46:50","slug":"i-just-sort-of-disconnect-jeff-kaplan-is-avoiding-overwatch-at-all-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91348","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Just Sort of Disconnect&#8217; \u2014 Jeff Kaplan is Avoiding Overwatch at all Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan explained how he protects his psyche by completely avoiding online discussions and subreddits about Blizzard&#8217;s hero shooter.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a die-hard <a href=\"https:\/\/ign.com\/games\/overwatch\/\">Overwatch<\/a> player, you\u2019re likely familiar with the name Jeff Kaplan. He was essentially the face of the game for years, endearing fans with his regular developer updates and memorable interactions with its fanbase.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/overwatch-director-jeff-kaplan-leaves-blizzard-entertainment?_cache=pass\">leaving Blizzard in 2021<\/a>, Kaplan founded his own game development studio and is currently working on an open world, action-survival shooter called The Legend of California. He has firmly put Overwatch behind him \u2014 to the point where he avoids interacting with it at all costs online.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"overwatch-the-reign-of-talon-new-hero-images\" data-value=\"overwatch-the-reign-of-talon-new-hero-images\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>\u201cWith Overwatch, I had a very almost clinical separation, knowing how the WoW thing had gone,\u201d Kaplan said in a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/jeff-kaplan-says-seperation-from-overwatch-was-clinical-i-never-go-back\/\">interview with GameSpot<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve literally not played the game since April 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t, for my own psyche, I don\u2019t read the subreddits. After I said my goodbye to competitive Overwatch and the Overwatch subreddit, I never go back and read. I don\u2019t watch YouTube [videos]. I don\u2019t search for my name in Overwatch. I don\u2019t search for Overwatch. I sort of just disconnect. I actually tell all the algorithms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan explained how he protects his psyche by completely avoiding online discussions and subreddits about Blizzard&#8217;s hero shooter. If you\u2019re a die-hard Overwatch player, you\u2019re likely familiar with the name Jeff Kaplan. He was essentially the face of the game for years, endearing fans with his regular developer updates and memorable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":91350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91352,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91348\/revisions\/91352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}