The biggest F*CK YOU moment of his career..

Jeff Kaplan announced some Look at this. This is the new game Jeff Kaplan announced. Let's take a look at it. We're obviously going to play it. There's no audio for this. Why is there no audio for this game? Okay. All right. Oh, it's big city. Oh, Got him. Stop resisting. Prime shootout location. McCarthy. Oh, wow. It's old school. Is this a PvP game? Let's see. Damn. Damn. Big money. Oh, that's the outwall lifestyle. That deer said it. That is kind of what we did. Yeah, that's kind of what happened. Yeah. Copper. Oh, I'm about this. This looks good. You got to fix that But he's going to build a house. Legend of California wish list now. So, uh, it's just not You're just not going to release it. Okay. There's no release date. So, this is coming out in 2029. It's releasing in 2029, guys. It's the Wild West Rust. Well, that's cool. Yeah, I'd be curious to play it, man. Openw world survival FPS set in the gold rush era. Build and expand your own ranch. Player alone or with That's kind of badass, man. That's kind of badass. I like that. Yeah, we'll see what's going to happen. And they should call it Legend of the West. I mean, I guess, right? I mean, Cal I mean, he knows California, doesn't he live in California? I feel like that's a good idea. So, yeah, bro. Like, that looks really good. I saw that they uh he had like some video about this talking about where I think this is on on future bestseller just got a page on Steam. Black Sailors command a fleet of formerly enslaved people who all became pirates and Brazil bays of all saints challenge colonial oppression. Fight for freedom and rewrite Atlantic history in turnbased tactical naval battles. Black Sailors. Wow. Uh, I watched I I played Black Sails or I watched Black Sals with my dad. It was good. And uh, yeah, this is the Overwatch. I'm probably going to watch more clips of this because it's a Lex Freriedman had uh, you know, Jeff Kaplan on his show and uh, we will watch this, but it's literally a fiveh hour fivehour Oh my god, this is insane. Holy Holy This is crazy. I might watch just the why Jeff left Blizzard part. Not right now, but we'll watch it at some point. And what eventually broke me was it used to be like in 2016 and 2017, I felt very in control of the Overwatch team and the direction of the game. As a game director, you know, working with Ray Gresco as the production director, it felt like we were running over. says 5 hours without food. Like, shut the up, fat ass. You fat piece of You can't you you can't do anything for 5 hours without needing to to to to refuel yourself. Like, oh my god, what a what a fat what? Watch. And we were very very successful and doing a good job and I think the fans were happy. Yeah. And then as we transitioned, you know, Overwatch League was the best intention. You know, my parents always say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. That was the Overwatch League. And it ended up being an albatross. And then Overwatch 2 was the same thing. And what it boiled down for me, like what sort of ultimately broke me in my Blizzard career was I got called in the CFO's office. Uh-oh. Uhoh. And he sits me down and he says it. He gives me a date, which at the time was 2020 and was going to slip to 2021, but at the time it was 2020. Yeah. And he said Overwatch has to make in 2020 and then every year after that it needs a recurring revenue. And then he says to me, "If it doesn't do dollars, we're going to lay off a thousand people and that's going to be on you." Wow. That's brutal. Lay off a thousand people. And that was just the biggest you moment I had in my career. It felt surreal to be in that condition. And as somebody who's worked on a lot of games, made a lot of games, you get in these meetings where they're like, there's Fortnite has 1,400 people working on it. If you just hire 1,400 people and make it free to play, we'll make that money, right? Yeah. Of course, that was I I had believed I would never work any place but Bobby Cockick logic. I loved it. It was a part of who I was. Um and I felt I was a part of it. And I literally thought I would retire from a place I never thought the day would come, man. Yeah. And uh I remember whenever he left Blizzard, it was kind of surprising to me. That was it. I was like, it it's we're done here. Luckily for Blizzard, that CFO is no longer there. Yeah, it seems like they're doing much better now, right guys? Most was uh detailed extensively on Play Ice. Blizzard was pretty much given unlimited freedom from Activision. Yeah, obviously. Wow, that is insane. I uh I don't even really know what to say other than that's really sad. Yeah, it's just really sad to see that happen with Jeff with Jeff Kaplan,