World of Warcraft - TBC In-depth interview

[@classyyert3099]

Young Jeff looks like a McDonald’s employee

[@SuperSkandale]

Really? What does a mcdolad's employee look like? is there a prototype ?

[@KonicaHexanon]

He is honest open and modest. Qualities that are rarely seen today.

[@Liofa73]

Classyyert --- He still does...

[@GoatOfWar]

Old jeff looks like balding gandalf.

[@youtubesuresuckscock]

He would have been if Blizzard hadn't given him a free ticket.

[@yandhibr]

Hi this is Jeff from the World of Warcraft team

[@kawaii_baka]

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'.

[@Artist-mb9vp]

If somebody important reads this, please, if there will be something like Warcraf 4, World of Wacraft 2 or some other way to save warcraft, please, let Jeff Kaplan work on it. Today's developement of WoW is just terrible.

[@TheSonicAndShadowFan]

I am a person who researches designers in search for talent. "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. " Where did he post such things? I only know of his Tigole 'rant' post.

[@itchin4scratches]

do you think hes on the wow classic dev team? ;))))

[@kawaii_baka]

WoW was meant to be hardcore. If you look up the raid philisiphy of blizzcon 2005 (?) you see Jeff Kaplan talk about how they wanted a hardcore guild to have something to raid 7 NIGHTS A WEEK. And they did. How is that not hardcore? I also challenge you to talk to a rank 14 and say it is casual.

[@kakyoin5974]

When jeff could have stayed WoW would be better now

[@Expl0rati0n]

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 :'(

[@martinsgakke]

+Exploration Ⓥ He's busy doing Overwatch, no wonder that game is becoming great.

[@SuperSkandale]

Wasn't Kaplan a world / quest designer in Vanilla though ? Not sure how much he impacted the gameplay and design decisions. I think his primary role was to write story lines for the quests as he had a writing degree from uni.

[@youtubesuresuckscock]

Actually, he didn't know anything about how to make a game immersive. It was immersive entirely because of the art and music, which he had nothing to do with.

[@BetterYouNow]

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

[@Weezlord69]

You want to tell me WOTLK was shit? LOL

[@tomwilkinson9239]

WOTLK was shit.

[@JakeTSnake7]

Jeff directed WOTLK...

[@bobbykotick1163]

Jake Tilton along with activision

[@Cloonie14]

Dont forget Mark Kern.

[@in2it85]

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

[@Bobobox95]

Well now we actually can lol

[@PK-uj8mp]

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

[@daviddispenser2434]

When Papa Jeff left the Blizzard we know and love died

[@kiggegidlov5303]

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

[@cazabrow1967]

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

[@Corghy]

SO young

[@SuperSkandale]

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.

[@Tatuzka]

Well, Blizzard kinda shot themselves in the leg because their subcount is on the lowest it has been in years, so about maximizing the profits, i say it didn't go as planned, hehe :'D

[@server1ok]

After the merger, Vivendi ( a European media company ) became a majority stock owner. You have to study Vivendi for answers since 99 % of devs and games had no cross over between Activision and Blizzard. A couple of years later, ATVI bought out Vivendi by taking a bank credit of about $ 6 Billion ( or 8, I don't remember ) but since too many new devs were on the WoW team and too many original devs had changed career or stopped working altogether because of "stock options" the changes and QOL "improvements" to WoW stayed and grew. 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 change or improve upon things. The current devs are too old and they are no longer active gamers. No matter what they say on events or festivals. They are not playing their game. Caplan played WoW. Both at work and with friends unrelated to work.

[@gheorghievstefan21]

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

[@OgreJoe]

WRESTLE

[@siskavard]

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

[@elevenn5]

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

[@Electr1cWaffles]

So fucking wholesome god damn

[@UnimatrixYoutube]

Hi this is Jeff from the Overwatch team 😢 RIP.

[@sillyputtyisfun7567]

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.

[@zezo4141]

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

[@ameralmansoori8238]

oh fk yeah the community is what made WoW

[@lordpeimei]

10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000%

[@rrightbraeden1161]

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

[@masonrobertstv5917]

HOLY SHIT ITS JEFF KAPLAN

[@Alexander-vg4ss]

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

[@MarkTheMadMan]

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

[@DiMoNico1981Swe]

+Markyboy28 He is - Lead designer for Overwatch =) that game will Kick Ass =)))

[@Meister333]

Overwatch has won Game of the Year award. Legion is failing harder than WOD with Ion now being game director. Surprise Surprise.

[@picklechin3061]

"Legion is failing harder than WOD" Lol, how many brain cells do you even have?

[@Artist-mb9vp]

WoD was terrible, true, but Legion is fading as well. I dont want to show up numbers, but the game is still dying.

[@xXdnerstxleXx]

Sassy I think Legion is worse than WoD. Fight me xD Whatever, 3 hours till BFA launch! Have fun, ill be grinding to 120 starting from the second of release.

[@Flyway999]

baby jeff

[@sandman9670]

RgObese oh yeah

[@angelluffman2451]

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.

[@Zargex]

0:07 The face of a legend

[@tyronjasonhuff]

Baby Jeff

[@ragerage2556]

It's papa fuckin Jeff 13 goddamn years ago

[@uhh214]

YOUNG JEPH.

[@IllegalPizza777]

Is that Jeff younglan

[@twiello8196]

jeff kaplan is god

[@BryceRichie]

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.

[@valkyra5281]

he cute

[@soonmatrix1972]

Jefffff I love you

[@Lawliet127]

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

[@BryceRichie]

Betwixt Realms Ik right. I luv Ion idk why so much hate

[@Killertomato84]

I‘ M E T H A N B R A D B E R R Y it's because he was a lawyer before a game designer, and has a very smug, punchable face.

[@FruitBasketyay]

Wait he was kinda cute when he was younger !

[@drkekenstein5750]

Jeff come back

[@MinecraftSMGbros]

here from overwatch, lmfao

[@owenmonckton2713]

Shut

[@ipKonfig]

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

[@Level-ts7xl]

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

[@malinschei2056]

Getting Sheldon vibes

[@wowneeya]

0:57 you call that pretty?

[@Stormtroopaahh]

JEFF 🤖

[@NoOne56488]

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.

[@siskavard]

LFG & flying were the first signs of trouble

[@mat6585]

Jeff what happened

[@Artist-mb9vp]

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

[@weeabooshunter4759]

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

[@danielscutaru6682]

1:34 😏

[@Oneplayer90]

2019

[@FilipBekic01]

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 :(

[@olddirty4163]

This makes me depressed

[@sehoonjung630]

gg

[@Evikeuklavier]

Daddy

[@douchmush9861]

Looks high af

[@pzchillmusic1233]

Fukin meme dude

[@server1ok]

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

[@Batemann1980]

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

[@_ANGST]

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

[@braules]

Daddy