Rumour: Blizzard lays off Titan project's senior level designer, John Staats

According to a source, Blizzard’s John Staats, once described as the ”hero of the WoW dev team” by Jeff Kaplan, has been let go from the studio having been there for over 10 years.

Staats created many of World of Warcraft’s best content pieces, including all raid instances. He was attached as the Titan project senior level designer. Trouble in paradise?

This rumour comes from a tipster reporting to Massively. It’s unclear why Blizzard would let John Staats go but perhaps the man himself is looking for a new horizon? Titan’s details remain shrouded.