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Elie Gould

One of Jeff Kaplan's 'regrets about Overwatch' was making it so team-orientated: 'I would downplay the team factor and try to put more focus on individual contribution'

Tracer's Overwatch.

One of the biggest issues I've had since Overwatch first launched 10 years ago has always been just how much coordination the game demands from five or six complete strangers. For better and worse you live and die by your team, a feature that ex-Overwatch boss Jeff Kaplan seems to regret.

"One of my hindsight regrets about Overwatch, and I think we did the right thing in the moment, I wouldn't go back and redo it, but if I was making a hero shooter from scratch today, I would make it less team-focused," Kaplan says in an interview with Lex Fridman.

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