I haven’t even opened the game yet, but I’ve written the review first? Former “Overwatch” star Jeff Kaplan choked during a live is gaining traction fast, and early community reaction suggests this one has real momentum.
As with major stories across retro and modern gaming, the key details are in how players are responding, how the platform owners move next, and whether this remains a short spike or a longer trend.
forward“Overwatch (Strike Special Attack/League of Legends)”Jeff Kaplan, a core member of the team, recently said in a live broadcast that if a game is launched and you don’t want to play it and have never played it, but you are still rushing to complain online, then he has only one piece of advice:“Shut up, no one cares.”The reason why this sentence spread quickly is not just because he said it directly, but because it just hit a very common phenomenon in the gaming circle today: many people have not touched the work at all, but they can still generate a whole set of emotions and conclusions.
I haven’t played it, so I can’t really give you any weighted opinion.
Kaplan’s statement in the live broadcast was actually very complete. He didn’t understand why people who clearly have no interest in a certain game and have no intention of experiencing it themselves still have to tell the world that “I am unhappy that it was made.” He asked if he didn’t know how to play, then what’s the importance of this opinion? In other words, he is not saying that every game cannot be criticized, but that criticism should at least be based on the premise that you have actually come into contact with the work. Otherwise, many times, this kind of speech is more like expressing a position than expressing feelings.
Nowadays, too many people start cursing before they even enter the door.
Kaplan is not completely opposed to negative reviews. Instead, he makes it clear that if you have actually played the game, you are certainly qualified to express your own opinion, and it will be a more information-based opinion. It’s just that he believes that the most common situation in the gaming community now is that those who love to take action on the work are often the ones who are least prepared to touch it. For him, this trend is not only unconstructive, it will even make the entire discussion environment more tiring, because instead of saying what they like, everyone seems to be more accustomed to competing with who can scold faster and who can step harder.
The reason why these words are particularly weighty has to do with experience.
After all, he wasn’t just a random bystander, but someone who had been at Blizzard for nearly 20 years, starting with“World of Warcraft (World of Warcraft/World of Warcraft)”Do it all the way《Overwatch》, I have seen the peak of the project, and I have also seen the work being scolded all over the place. He just publicly talked about why he left Blizzard last week, mentioning that it also involved great financial pressure and management responsibilities.
Because of this, when he looks back to the gaming community now,“If you don’t plan to play at all, don’t rush to make your opinion so important.”, it sounds not just an emotional speech, but more like a straightforward summary that after staying in the industry for a long time, I am finally too lazy to package it.