Recalling Two Years of Overwatch
(N4G Xbox)

Jeff Kaplan speaks on the PlayStation Blog: Overwatch came about through this series of meetings to brainstorm a new game after we stopped development on Project Titan, which was the codename for the MMO wed been working on. We had three pitches, one of which was a new class-based MMO-thing. One day we were in a class meeting deciding how many classes this new MMO should have. Geoff was the class designer on Titan originally, and in this meeting he said, I would much rather make a game that had fifty classes that each did far fewer things and were much more focusedthats what sounds really interesting to me right now. I really hung onto that. We tried to make that work for that MMO, but it just wasnt working