"We have new leadership on both Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4, and both are seasoned Blizzard developers with over 30 years experience at the company between them," said Ybarra. With Blizzard’s responsibilities transitioning over to Ybarra, the head of Blizzard said on the investors call that the extra time being allotted to Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 will give the studio time to "significantly" increase the size of the development teams ahead of release.
To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Until Oneal leaves at the end of the year, her time will be spent working closely with Activision Blizzard and Women in Games International, of which she is a board member, to determine how a $1 million grant being donated to the non-profit by the company will be utilized. Now, the studio has lost one of the new co-leaders as Jen Oneal announced yesterday she was leaving the company. The new leadership at Blizzard Kotick referenced pertains to Jen Oneal and Mike Ybarra who were appointed co-leaders of Blizzard after J.
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He stated with the new leadership, it became apparent that some of the Blizzard content planned for next year would “benefit from more development time to reach its full potential." Kotick also attributed the delays to working with new leadership at Blizzard and within the franchises themselves, particularly in certain key creative roles.
Speaking on the call, Activision president and COO Daniel Alegre said Blizzard was now planning a "later launch" for both games than "originally envisaged." That said, Blizzard has "a substantial amount of content" slated for next year, likely from World of Warcraft, Overwatch and its other titles.Īdding a bit of color, CEO Bobby Kotick stated that staff departures, voluntary and otherwise, partially contributed to the delays and cited "turnover" and "increased competition in the market” for the company’s talent as partly offsetting its success in hiring. That's according to Activision Blizzard which stated as much during its Q3 2021 call to investors last night. Looks like we will have to wait until at least 2023 to play Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2.
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