What Jeff Kaplan thinks about team size

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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1. 11 Mar 2026

   Our readingA small team is not a compromise: it is the only size at which everyone is in the room for every decision, including the ones outside their discipline.

   Their wordsThe bigger the team, the more you become a cog in the machine. And on a small team, the way I like to describe it is you get to have a loud voice.

   ↗Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #493youtube.com 2nd of 29 in this recording