Didn't find this anywhere on GWG so....
http://www.arena.net/about/team.html
--Blizzard lost some key people in the 3 founders of Arena.net but Patrick Wyatt one of the founders of Arena.net was a Vice President of R&D at Blizzard. He had to really believe in what he was doing next to leave such a well paying position, with executive benefits.
--Scott Robinson was a contributing animater for Disney's Atlantis too!
--As far as the marketing and having a wise marketing personw ith good contacts, Chris Chung must be a marketing genius. Gallup doesn't fund people easily, and this was funding a foreign marketing company. Only someone who can teach gallup a thing or two will get any of their money for a foreign investment.
--One more, Stephen Hwang, has been designing levels for LucasArts.
--I am merely pointing out from a cursory look at say the top 30 people listed, GuildWars has some insanely deep experience behind it and that's not including Michael O'Brien and Jeff Strain.
Anyway I posted in case anyone else wanted to know.
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