Young Jeff looks like a McDonald’s employee

Hi this is Jeff from the World of Warcraft team

Jeff Kapplan's fate is quite frustrating to me. He is, in my opinion, the most talented guy at Blizzard. He, together with other talented people, made WoW Vanilla, TBC and WotLK. He really valued the hardcore aspects of the game as he was a raider in the game Everquest, a game WoW was heavily inspired by. Then, Jeff was pulled off WoW to work on TITAN. TITAN was this next huge MMO game they were going to make. Jeff was so excited, he wrote on the forums his goodbyes and told us to look forward to this new even more epic MMO. We were stoked. Years and years went by and the project suddenly died. Then they turned it into Overwatch. Don't get me wrong, Overwatch is the best game I have played in years and is now my main game, but maaan poor Jeff. I saw this documentary about how sad he was that TITAN got canceled and he is now "stuck" leading a FPS game, while his real passion is hardcore MMO games. I hope one day, Jeff will either get to work on an epic MMO or bring WoW back on track, because WoW has lost itself and it sorely needs you. Funfact: As you can see on his t-shirt his nickname is Tigole. He also has a last name, full name is 'Tigole Bitties'.

Kaplan knew how to make the game incredibly immersive, challenging, rewarding, and fun. I wonder what his thoughts are on where the game has gone, especially since he was one of the people that liked the more hardcore model. Miss you Kaplan :'(

Jeff Kaplan is Tigole Bitties?! This man...

This man single handedly made vanilla WoW as great as it was His leaving after TBC is when WoW went to shit.

*I am looking forward to this game, it sounds great!*

*"Hey guys this is Jeff from the The Burning Crusade team."*

Jeffrey Kaplan is fucking awesome. wish we had him still in wow. it was so much better then

When Papa Jeff left the Blizzard we know and love died

SO young

So fucking wholesome god damn

This guys is amazing thanks to him and pardo weve got wow

Jeff Kaplan was definitely one of the members of the core Vanilla / TBC Warcraft team that made vanilla and tbc as great as it was. And I completely agree with @OfficialJesseStone that him leaving at TBC was part of the reason the game turned into shit. Another reason is that Blizzard was sold to Activision which is essentially a share company I believe. Empirical evidence has it that Activision has impacted Blizzards decision making processes and as such, since the merge in 2008 the company has strayed far away from the core principles and values the company was initially built on. Which is a shame to say the least. However I will say that this is a trend we see in the modern day quite often, companies sacrificing their core integrity in order to maximize profit. At the end of the day, this is a company, and as any company one of their main objectives is to be profitable. Some go to greater lengths to achieve this, even sacrificing their core values in order to achieve this. Which sucks for the fans but ultimately as a company, they achieve, at least one of their more important goals and objectives.

My biggest gripe is that the story director for The Burning Crusade didn't even know what they were doing. They took one look at Illidan and said "Oh he must be Kil'Jaeden." And made him the leader of the Burning Legion. :/ Like really? Personally I feel that if you have never played the game you shouldn't be allowed to write the story for the game.

HOLY SHIT ITS JEFF KAPLAN

Advise u to listen to 7:29+. He literally knew what made woe addictive.

"each class has extremely unique abilities" not any more!

They need to ask Kaplan for info on how to properly handle this game. He sure knows what to do.

WRESTLE

0:07 The face of a legend

baby jeff

Hi this is Jeff from the Overwatch team 😢 RIP.

YOUNG JEPH.

Fun fact: Tigole = comes from Tigole Bitties :) Great man thanks for all the hours of enjoyment in your games!

Jefffff I love you

Baby Jeff

Daddy Kaplan went from Hi I'm here to inform you on World of Warcrafy to IMA NERF YOUR MAIN!!!

It's papa fuckin Jeff 13 goddamn years ago

What happened. I'm playing TBC classic and I love it so much. Retail wow actually makes me very sad, it doesn't feel like a game anymore.

Is that Jeff younglan

Everyone go bing credit to Kaplan for WoW Vanilla, TBC, and Overwatch even though hundreds of people also put in as much work as him.

jeff kaplan is god

Jeff come back

JEFF 🤖

he cute

Wait he was kinda cute when he was younger !

here from overwatch, lmfao

They need this guy back on WoW NOW....and Ion Hazzikostas has to GO

All these people in the comments section saying Ion Hazzikostas has to go and Ion Hazzikostas just gave us vanilla wow servers

Getting Sheldon vibes

1:34 😏

6:29 See, Blizzard? Players must feel what they earn! Not just drop from a boss, or a bunch of gold!

8:38 he said "video card" yet WoW has been massively CPU bound since the day it released and 8.1 brought Multi-Threading for huge game improvement performance; which proves the game is still heavily CPU bound. Video card, PFF

Those words 6:40 represent TBC, you had to earn things, just like in vanilla. No idea why Blizzard is taking different aproach these days :(

2019

Jeff what happened

why does this video look like a raped VHS tape from the 80s ? WoW BC isnt THAT old..

why they made the horde paladin get seal of blood and the alliance gets seal of shit? it doesn't even compare in this expansion

This makes me depressed

Looks high af

gg

0:57 you call that pretty?

Daddy

Fukin meme dude

I hope Blizzard sees this video and understand where they went wrong in recent years. Sharding, CRZ has killed the community as well as other issues, WoW isn't a MMORPG anymore, there is no RPG to this game. I've all ways said that Blizzard will be the victim of its own success and i was right, arrogance and the wrong people at the head of the table has killed WoW.

After the merger, Vivendi ( a European media company ) became a majority owner. People who are interested in this ( ? ) should study Vivendi for answers since 99 % of dev teams had no crossover between Activision and Blizzard. A couple of years later, ATVI got rid of Vivendi by taking a bank credit of $ 6 Billion but since too many new devs were on the WoW team and too many original devs had changed career or stopped working because of "stock options" the changes and QOL in WoW stayed and grew. ( also, understand the pressure from creditors ) Ultimately. WoW was ruined by Blizzard with some influence from Vivendi when it came to catering to the Chinese market. It was the unforeseen global and domestic success that made Blizzard ruin themselves and once you are saturated with cash and set for life there are few reasons to improve. The current devs are no longer active gamers. No matter what they say on events. They are not playing the game. Kaplan played WoW. Both at work and with friends unrelated to work. It wasn't Activision that made Kaplan stop playing WoW. It was age, a successful career and a curiosity for new game development. Too bad that the superseding teams have been clueless, non gamers of the wrong generation. The reason for the merger had nothing to do with WoW directly. The reason for the merger was to save money on accounting, buying commercials in bulk, sharing real estate deals, getting better deals in banking ( i.e. lower interest rate ) etc. Check here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision_Blizzard

Agree with all the comments here finally left Warcraft and found another blizzard game I love playing yes it's called overwatch hehe

Warcraft died with this. Expansions weren't adding anything to the game, but replacing it.

Daddy