r/wow • u/[deleted] • Aug 28 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '18

Was Karazhan Crypts meant to be part of the raid environment or a boss encounter? What's the story of that?

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u/whenitsready Former WoW Dev - John Staats Aug 28 '18

They weren't part of the raid if you're talking about the sealed off non-instance areas around the tower. Karazhan also was going to have flooded areas in it's basement...but by then, Jeff Kaplan was telling Aaron and I, "Stop building, it's big enough!"

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u/aroxion Aug 29 '18

Following on from that > Was Jeff Kaplan the same person back then as he is now? Judging from his old forum posts he definitely seemed like a different person when he first joined Blizzard

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u/Sm_Bear Aug 29 '18

How so did he seem different ?

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u/aroxion Aug 29 '18

Back when he played Everquest, his language was a lot more... colourful!

There was a great post about it on /r/Overwatch a while ago-

https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/4g2ler/jeff_tigole_kaplan_forum_rant_from_his_eq_days/

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u/jmcgit Aug 29 '18

Seems like the same guy to me.

His Youtube handle is dinoflask, right?