Overwatch 2's dev team was heartbroken over the game's leak

Overwatch 2 suffered from some major leaks before the official reveal, leading to everyone pretty much knowing it was in the works. How did the team behind the game feel about the leaks? Game director Jeff Kaplan shared his comments on the situation in an interview with Kotaku Australia.

"When you're trying so hard to deliver something for somebody and to have it be spoiled in a way that's not coherent. That'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're doing.

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 ... and then people are like, 'I don't know it doesn't look that good' and we're like, no it does, it looks amazing! It's just a crappy screenshot that someone took, so it can be a bit demoralising. But my interactions with everybody on the team today is everybody's on cloud nine."