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Rumor: Blizzard Lays Off Longtime Senior MMO Level Designer

Posted on Tuesday, November 8 @ 14:37:03 Eastern by Josh_Laddin
Despite being only slighlty less of a juggernaught in the MMO space than it has in years past, Blizzard is still making obscene amounts of money. But a rumor out today shows that even in the good times, the guys on top are still subject to the axe.


Joystiq reports that one of their tipsters dropped the bomb that John Staats has been laid off. Staats had been on the WoW dev team since the game's inception and had his hand in almost all the content the game had to offer before leaving that post to be Senior Level Designer for Blizzard's new super-secretive MMO, Titan. Is not all perfect with the development of Titan? You don't just let go one of your most important guys (who has been refered to as "hero of the WoW dev team") without something serious going on.

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  • Merlin
    Merlin
    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Nov 8th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
    According to the blue Dev's on the blizzard forums this rumor is utterly false.
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  • Josh_Laddin
    Josh_Laddin
    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Nov 8th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
    From what I can tell, that post was in response to rumors of massive layoffs that were company-wide. There doesn't appear to be any mention of John Staats specifically, so it's still very possible that *he* is still gone. But I'm keeping an eye on it and will update as necessary if that info comes to light.
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  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous
    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Nov 8th, 2011 at 11:44 pm
    They merely downloaded his consciousness into the server that houses Titan. As for the dried decaying husk that was once his mortal coil... yes, it has been let go.
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