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Published · transcript-backedJeff Kaplan: belief
11 Mar 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming
“I think everybody would have loved to have played it. And there’s a misconception online that all I cared about was PvE and I didn’t care about PvP.”
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- Speaker
- Jeff Kaplan
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 11 Mar 2026
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…Which, by the way, I would have loved to play. I’m one of the people that were… Overwatch is great, but the PvP, but I would have loved to play the PvE version. I think everybody would have loved to have played it. And there’s a misconception online that all I cared about was PvE and I didn’t care about PvP. All of the Overwatch 2 PvP maps were something that I said to the team over and over, “We have a PvP audience. If we get anything right, it has to be the PvP.” We would be lucky to welcome these PvE players, but that’s not guaranteed. So it was never a PvE only focus. It’s just almost expanding it to also the E.…
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