The father of Overwatch’s 1-0-2 Christmas greeting: Just sitting still in front of the fireplace livestream for 8 hours

Inspired by the story “Yule Log” of the American TV station WPIX in 1966, at that time, for some reason, this station had a problem for 1.5 hours with nothing to show on television. Figure. Then, they decided to point the camera at a burning fireplace for the audience to watch.

Starting from this, starting from 2017 until now, it has been three years in a row, every Christmas the Twitch channel of Overwatch broadcast a special livestream again, there Jeff Kaplan – the father of Overwatch just sat in front of the fireplace and did almost nothing for hours. Certainly in the history of the gaming industry, there is no other game company that has such an odd way of wishing gamers Christmas Blizzard and Jeff Kaplan.
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Similar to previous years, the familiar scene during the 8-hour livestream video is Jeff Kaplan sitting still in an armchair, behind a fireplace and staring at the camera. Before that, fans were hoping for some new news about Overwatch 2 will be announced by the developer during this livestream, but opening a Christmas gift box, playing games, drinking milk tea, assembling Overwatch models are rare moments where viewers can see Jeff Kaplan talking or doing something. other than sitting still in a chair for eight hours.
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However, Jeff Kaplan’s livestream video still attracts tens of thousands of followers, excluding other platforms, on Youtube alone has nearly 30,000 views as of the time of writing. Nothing special, but many people said they felt relaxed and comfortable watching this “weird” livestream by Jeff Kaplan.
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Another side note, in a recent interview, Kaplan said that the company still has a lot of ambitions to make Overwatch become a universe, not a title. shooting game normally.