Jeff Strain leaves NCSoft West

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Hectic news! He is considered one of the most creative minds in the MMORPG genre.

http://www.mmorpg.com/newsroom.cfm?read=14652&bhcp=1

Jeff Strain, the driving force behind Guild Wars and Co-Founder of ArenaNet, has left NCsoft West. He had, since NCsoft’s North American reorganization last year, served as the President of Product Development for NCsoft West and was considered by many to be the primary creative mind at the company.
Also departing is their President of Publishing David Reid.
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"This does not change our plans or negatively impact our upcoming launch of Aion, and NCsoft remains very excited about the game’s launch on September 22nd in the U.S. and September 25th in Europe. These changes do not influence any other teams, development schedules or other launches.”

As long as that's true it's all good :)
 
Indeed.

Aion is pretty much finished already - it's basically being polished now.

As for future releases - the one most on my mind is obviously GW2 - and since we still don't have a proper planned launch date for that - it's probably useless to worry about it.
 
IMPORTANT NEWS PEOPLE!

There's been a statement from Mike O'Brien posted on the Guild Wars Wiki:

Hi all,
I wanted to take a moment to offer my personal note on Jeff's departure.


Jeff is a personal friend of mine. We worked together very closely from the time he joined Blizzard in 1996, through our founding of ArenaNet in 2000, until he left ArenaNet to join NCsoft West in 2008. I'm sad to see him leaving NCsoft now. We remain good friends and I wish him great success in his next endeavor.


It's important to understand that ArenaNet is a separate and self-contained development studio. Jeff hasn't been involved in the day-to-day development of Guild Wars 2 since he left ArenaNet more than a year ago, and I don't expect his departure to have a direct impact on our studio or on Guild Wars 2. I continue to lead ArenaNet, and I'm not going anywhere.


We have an amazing team here at ArenaNet, and we continue to work hard on Guild Wars 2, preparing for the day when we can first reveal it to the world. That day is coming very soon now. I'm confident that, when you see Guild Wars 2 for the first time, you're going to love what you see, and any worries you have about its development will fade away.


- Mike O'Brien


WOOT!
 
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