Jeff Kaplan Net Worth 2025 and Biography

Jeff Kaplan Net Worth 2025 and Biography: Jeffrey Kaplan is an American video game designer who was vice president of Blizzard Entertainment. He designed elements of World of Warcraft and is the former lead director on Overwatch.

What is Jeff Kaplan net worth?

Net worth	$1 million
Date of birth	November 4, 1972
Full name	Jeffrey Kaplan
Occupation	video game designer
Nationality	American

Jeff Kaplan Net Worth and Biography

Jeff Kaplan net worth 2025 is estimated at $1 million. He is an American video game designer who was vice president of Blizzard Entertainment. He designed elements of World of Warcraft and was the game director on Overwatch.

Biography

Kaplan was born in New Jersey but raised in La Cañada Flintridge, California. Kaplan had been an avid video game player during his school years, particularly influenced by the various Infocom adventure games; however, lacking programming skills, he never thought he would be able to get a career in the video game industry.

He initially pursued a degree in film, but ultimately got a degree in creative writing at the University of Southern California. After working as a writing intern for Universal Pictures, he decided to get a graduate degree for creative writing from New York University.

Following this, he worked for his father’s recruiting business while performing creative writing on the side to try to get his stories published. He was unsuccessful at getting any of his creative stories published for several years, receiving over 170 rejection notices in a single year.

By 2000, he decided to drop creative writing, and spent his time playing video games, as well as toying around with the level editors from games like Duke Nukem 3D and Half-Life.

In 2017, Kaplan was awarded with the Vanguard Award at the Fun & Serious Game Festival, which takes place in the Spanish city of Bilbao.

Blizzard announced that Kaplan was leaving the company after nineteen years on April 20, 2021, with Aaron Keller to take over Kaplan’s role in the oversight of Overwatch. A tribute to Kaplan was planned to be included in Overwatch 2 by the name of a background storefront “Jephs Corner Pizza” in the New York City map. However, the reference was seemingly removed after Blizzard implemented a new policy against including references to real-world people in their games.