Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan's new open-world FPS probably won't be free-to-play because "you need 8 billion players and 2 thousand devs cranking out f***ing keychains like a sweatshop"

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Former Blizzard vice president and Overwatch co-creator Jeff Kaplan hasn't decided on a monetization model for his new open-world action survival FPS The Legend of California, but he's pretty sure it won't be free-to-play.

Having previously worked on Overwatch at the highest level, Kaplan knows a thing or two about free-to-play games, and he doesn't see it as a viable model for The Legend of California. "To be free-to-play, you need eight billion players and two thousand devs cranking out fucking keychains like a sweatshop," Kaplan says during a recent 10-hour livestream of Legend of California (via Majid Manzarpour on Twitter).