What is Jeff Kaplan Net Worth? Salary, Wife Angela Kaplan, Biography

Jeff Kaplan is a Video Game Designer from California, he served as the Vice-President of Blizzard Entertainment for almost nine years, on April 20, 2021, Jeff announced that he is leaving the company in a letter. The Letter reads “it was truly the honor of a lifetime to have the opportunity to create worlds and heroes for such a passionate audience. I want to express my deep appreciation to everyone at Blizzard who supported our games, our game teams, and our players. But I want to say a special thanks to the wonderful game developers that shared in the journey of creation with me.” Jeff’s role will be taken by Aaron Keller, he was the founding member of the Overwatch team and served 18 years as a Blizzard veteran. Aaron Keller wrote in a statement “Jeff’s been a great leader, mentor, and friend, and he knows how much we’re going to miss him. I’ve been lucky to work alongside him and the rest of the Overwatch team for many years in building something that continues to inspire people all around the world, and I’m honored to carry the torch forward,” and added “development is continuing at a good pace” on Overwatch 2 and that “we’ll be sharing more frequent updates about Overwatch 2 progress and new features in the live game with you all very soon.”

Who is Jeff Kaplan?

 Jeff Kaplan

Name
Jeff Kaplan
Net Worth
$1 Million to $1.7 Million USD
Wife
Angela Kaplan

Jeff Kaplan served at Blizzard Entertainment for 19 years, he was the lead designer on Overwatch. On April 20th, 2021, Jeff announced that he’s leaving the company, however, there is not much information why exactly he is leaving the company. Since childhood, Jeff was an avid video gamer and was influenced by the Infocom adventure games but he never thought of pursuing his career in the Gaming industry, instead, he earned a degree in Film from the University of Southern California. Later, he interned for Universal Pictures and enrolled at New York Univesity, and graduated with a degree in creative writing. After graduating from the University, Jeff served at his father’s Recruiting company for some time, then he began working on his creative stories, Jeff worked on this for several years but in a single year he received 170 rejection notices and this made him quit the creative writing. Jeff Kaplan caught the attention of the guild’s leader, Rob Pardo through his commentary about the game posted to the guild’s website, Jeff made a discussion about the map-making attempts which caught the attention of that time Blizzard for Warcraft III lead designer, Rob Pardo.

Since then, Jeff made his presence in the Gaming World, in May 2002 he was hired into Blizzard and initially worked as the quality assurance for Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Then, Jeff joined the WoW team along with Pat Nagle and worked closely with the game’s creative director Chris Metzen. Over the period of time, Jeff Kaplan was named as the game director for WoW, along with Tom Chilton and J. Allen Brack. In February 2009, he announced that he is stepping down from the WoW and joined Blizzard. He began working on the first-person shooter project named “TiTan,” but the project came to end in September 2014, the team consists of more than 40 members all were made to resign and joined other projects and left with Kaplan and Metzen. Jeff and Metzen came up with an idea to use creative elements of Titan to develop a team-based shooter, which became Overwatch, within the first year Overwatch earned $1 Billion in revenue and more than 35 million users, the management recognized the effort and hard work of Jeff and awarded him with Vanguard Award at the Fun & Serious Game Festival in 2017. Jeff served more than 19 years at Blizzard, on April 20th, 2021 he resigned from the position, Aaron Keller to take over Kaplan’s role in the oversight of Overwatch.

What is Jeff Kaplan Net Worth?

Jeff Kaplan had an average salary of $140K as the lead designer on Overwatch, in that position he worked for 8 years. The Net Worth of Jeff Kaplan is between $1 Million to $1.7 Million USD.

 Jeff Kaplan

Who is Jeff Kaplan Wife?

Jeff Kaplan is married to Angela Kaplan and they first met playing EverQuest, during that time Jeff was a Creative writer in LA and Angela was a Dark Elf warrior. The couple shares a kid together and lives in California.

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