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Breaking news: Activision Blizzard is a bag of executives
Online games news Tedious Retro Gamer, 16-03-2026
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Former Overwatch game director, Jeff Kaplan, who left Blizzard Entertainment in 2021, recently, while promoting his upcoming game, just dropped a... not fully unexpected bomb about his former employer.
According to Kaplan, the reason behind him leaving out of the sudden in 2021 was the ultimatum that he was given by the CFO of Blizzard Activision. Let’s call this CFO John Smith. Or John Doe. Or Dennis Durkin, for example. What was the ultimatum? If Overwatch will not start generating x amount of money each year, the company will lay off a thousand developers each time.
Is it me or does it sound like a psychopath in making? Well, Dennis Durkin, or John Smith, went even further and reassured Kaplan that he personally will be responsible for those lay-offs. Yeah, sounds like a great idea to motivate people, Dennis Durkin. And even better to improve the product by reducing the number of people that can work on it, Dennis Durkin.
And, Dennis Durkin, actually reaches his goal, Kaplan decided to leave the company and start his own business. What happened to the idiot, Dennis Durkin? Dennis Durkin, left Activision Blizzard about a month after Kaplan. What a Dennis Durkin...
You might wonder what pushed that idiot to give such a brainless ultimatum to Kaplan, and the answer is quite obvious - Activision Blizzard is a bag of executives. The higher-ups of the company were so delusional about Overwatch that they found schmucks with a lot of money (investors) who were gullible enough to believe that esports around Overwatch is gonna be bigger than NFL. Spoiler alert: it never happened.
So, who the Dennis Durkins of the world started to blame for this failure? The developers, of course. And Jeff Kaplan, of course. I mean, they could not present themselves as the idiots in this story, where would it end? They would have to take responsibility for their own actions, and that is not what Dennis Durkins of the world are capable of.
Well, good for Jeff Kaplan to leave the toxic company of Dennis Durkin and starting his own project. I guess we all need Dennis Durkin in our lives to make us realise there are better things we can do with our lives.
16-03-2026
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