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Jesse Kurlancheek

@kurlancheek.bsky.social
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Principal designer on World of Warcraft, co-founder of Proletariat Inc (acquired by Blizzard), ex-Turbine, Sloth-lover

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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Wrote up a quick What's Coming Next for Housing (the last of which will surprise you!). tl;dr - More storage (!!) - Exterior lights (+ higher exterior limits) - More endeavors - Pets - Layouts ("import/export") - Showcases and Visitor Codes (Surprise!) worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/2...
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The promo vendors should have it soon
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Some great player collab houses in here! news.blizzard.com/en-us/articl... (And to bury the lede: this humble mat is intended to be dyeable. Working on getting that fixed, but no ETA. IYKYK etc)
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Yeah, not in the NHs, but inside you can!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
3am idea where housing-meets-pvp: Someone should set up a tag arena in their house. Two level 1 players /duel and the chaser needs to (melee) attack the runner to tag them. Mix and match class and level to taste as the layout gets more ridiculous. I'd totally watch this.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Oh good, instead of hassling Seth with feedback, I can harass you instead <3
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We've got some Endeavor changes going live later this week. TL;DR - House XP cap 1000 -> 2250 - DR on tasks floor 20% -> 50% - Repeatable task DR resets weekly - First (this one!) Endeavor XP needed 1000 -> 400 - Generic task rewarded XP 10 -> 50 us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/hou...
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Housing Endeavors Updates Incoming
Hello neighbors! It’s been a week since Endeavors went live and we’ve been reading your feedback and working through some improvements that we’re bringing to Endeavors in the next few days. Earning ...
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Sorry, the clutter coming back is a bug. They'll get cleaned up again as soon as we can rehire the HOA landscapers.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If you go digging way back in my career you can find out what happens when we let players cooperate to help an old god-like entity or not in an MMO long ago!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Armillary is so much fancier now!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
BUT DIFFERENT COSTS
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
What other inconsistencies exist between similar items with different costs? (I.e. two things that are similar looks/size/"functionality" but with wildly different costs) Was just talking with Jay about this one a bit ago...
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
In almost every interview or pitch for various housing features, I'd bring up someone building a pirate ship.... she built one!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
It feels like both of these points could serve as springboards for broad discussions on our approach to housing and philosophy, but it can also just boil down into: "we want you to make cool stuff with each other!" In the meantime, have the notes: us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/hou...
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Housing Development Notes -- Updated December 9
Maintenance is complete for this week, and we have two development notes for Housing. Up Almost immediately after the 11.2.7 patch went live, we saw players using keybinds to elevate houses off the g...
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Two housing updates with today's maintenance: 1) Exterior decor limits now increase from 200 to 250 at house level 3! 2) We were going to fix flying houses to bring them back to terra firma, but you all made such awesome stuff, so we made it possible with the base UI instead.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Working with a talented, high-trust team is awesome because sometimes cool stuff is made and you only find out once the designers show it to you in action. The level 6 house Armillary reward on Beta is one such thing. Credit to Krez on wowkea for the screens.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New profile pic because it's how I feel scrolling and seeing so many outrageous housing creations and people vibing. It's a built-in reaction image! (Courtesy of Jo, by way of Ogles.)
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
It's vibes all the way down....
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Second time in as many days as Cowtown has come up!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Random thoughts while looking at screenshots: - They used to be TGA files and man what a pain it is to browse them. - So many character names were A+ and very lore-appropriate. - Seeing chat in these is truly a time capsule as we all figured out the rules of the world together.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thanks to the team who worked incredibly hard on this, the players whose excitement we fed off of and feedback we internalized, and our families for putting up with us. We're so so excited to see what you build and welcome you home at long last too.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Today we launch housing in WoW. Feeling sentimental, I went digging through old screenshots. I first visited Azeroth in the tech alpha (slipping in as a MMO dev at another co!) and made a Tauren (Plainsrunning!) and walked to TB. 22 years later, I can finally call it home.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Yup, folks have definitely given this feedback.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
YOUR EYE ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU?!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
take those player-run theatre troupes to the next level!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
What's the weird stuff you want?
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
In the grim dark future, there is only ... housing? (Credit to Sparkiee on Discord)
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Ngl I almost posted my office pic
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
20 year old me is in this video (but my floor bed was VERY COMFORTABLE, okay?!)
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
This is so great! I'm going to look over my glasses and say something cryptic about future housing stuff now.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
And it gave me 10 years of extra confidence around raccoons and dogs!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
15 years ago, I posted on Facebook about a bat on my face when I woke up and the hilarity as I tried to catch it and shoo it out. Everyone is all laughs but my friend, an infectious disease doctor is like "go to the ER, say this, and don't leave without the vaccine! It's the worst way to die!"
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Haha I won't tag them but I am not the namer of things. Will confirm though that the main namer is definitely a ST nerd.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
It does make me chuckle a little how full circle the career has been.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Come on a tour of our house! The team did such an amazing job on this. worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/housing
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WoW Housing Virtual Tour
Before you put down roots in your own cozy corner of Azeroth later this year, jump into our virtual tour for a glimpse at the evolving customization options that await you.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
House fight!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The cruelest monkey paw curl was the kid ramped down her berry intake because she found out about ... sushi.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
IIRC some of the folks that came out to Boston talked about something similar in their videos afterwards.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
UI screenshot should be fixed. Thanks for the heads up!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Welcome to the Neighborhood! It's finally time share information on Neighborhoods and Endeavors. (Wait, Endeavors!!?) P.S. Is it still cool to make a joke about naming my neighborhood "Orc City" or has that already come and gone? worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/2...
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I was going to make a joke about a percent increase in word count but Copilot helpfully told me there were 10,000+ words and while I'm verbose, I'm not THAT bad. Thanks AI!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
not as far as I know, but I'm also out on aforementioned parental leave so not paying too much attention
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Nothing like that First Week of Parental Leave x Microsoft Layoffs crossover event to really get that cortisol going!
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We need the reverse! A whole album of Ted Leo covering Kelly! m.youtube.com/watch?v=DBr5...
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Ted Leo - Since U Been Gone / Maps
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Happiness. Went in blind on maybe a second date because the art house theater wouldn't do us wrong, right? Oops. I was laughing. She was mortified. There were no more dates.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I have been lucky enough to live in two places with VERY localized pizza variants and they're wonderful: "Bar Pizza" and pizza from Old Forge, PA www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/... www.foodigenous.com/post/old-for...
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Can Old Forge Pennsylvania Really Be The Pizza Capital of the World?
I come from a land down under, where people take their food very seriously and men chunder. Nah I’m not Australian, I just thought it sounded like a cool intro. But seriously, I’m from a state that is...
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Ante in a "closed" ecosystem of friends where we all slowly passed around a Lord of the Pit and Shivan Dragon was a glorious time. (This was also the same time frame where we acquired so many dual lands that sat gathering dust because why would you play two colors!??)
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Truly. The measure of one's success is in ratio of turns taken to lands destroyed. Winning and losing is secondary.
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Spoken as a true LD enjoyer
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Jesse Kurlancheek @kurlancheek.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I mean I can tell you about my current WoW house. You free for a call to discuss on Tuesday?
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