{"id":103037,"date":"2019-11-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/the_overwatch_2_leak_was_extremely_demoralising_for_the_development_team"},"modified":"2019-11-03T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T10:00:00","slug":"the-overwatch-2-leak-was-extremely-demoralising-for-the-development-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/03\/the-overwatch-2-leak-was-extremely-demoralising-for-the-development-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The Overwatch 2 Leak Was Extremely Demoralising For The Development Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dea2304ad63a2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dea2304ad63a2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/dea2304ad63a2\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dZl1yGUetjI?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Like many other Blizzcon announcements this weekend, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_2\">Overwatch 2<\/a><\/strong> one was leaked ahead of the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>In a follow-up interview with Kotaku Australia, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/overwatch_legendary_edition\">Overwatch<\/a><\/strong> lead designer Jeff Kaplan expressed how leaks can be &#8220;extremely demoralising&#8221; for developers and explained how lack of context can often result in worst-case scenario concerns:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When you&#8217;re trying so hard to deliver something for somebody and to have it be spoiled in a way that&#8217;s not coherent. That&#8217;s the part that bothers us the most, where people are not given all the information and all of the context that they need to understand what we&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When the Overwatch 2 leaks started to happen, immediate worries raised by the community were in regards to progression and cosmetics carrying across \u2013 along with how a sequel could potentially divide the game&#8217;s playerbase.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan also noted how the artists working on the PvE focused entry were &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; when leakers began uploading low-quality screenshots:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Our artists are heartbroken: They take such care to make the art look beautiful, and then we get some crappy version of what the art looks like &#8230; and then people are like, &#8216;I don&#8217;t know it doesn&#8217;t look that good&#8217; and we&#8217;re like, no it does, it looks amazing! It&#8217;s just a crappy screenshot that someone took, so it can be a bit demoralising.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Be sure to check out yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/blizzard_is_indeed_bringing_overwatch_2_to_the_nintendo_switch\">announcement post<\/a>, <em>officially<\/em> confirming Overwatch 2 for the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<p><em>What are your thoughts about leaks? Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dZl1yGUetjI?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Like many other Blizzcon announcements this weekend, the Overwatch 2 one was leaked ahead of the opening ceremony. In a follow-up interview with Kotaku Australia, Overwatch lead designer Jeff Kaplan expressed how leaks can be &#8220;extremely demoralising&#8221; for developers and explained how lack of context can often result in worst-case scenario concerns: When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}