ArenaNet

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ArenaNet (often colloquially shortened to ANet) is the development studio that makes Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2. They are located in Bellevue, Washington, USA. Their mission is to "create a state-of-the-art, interactive game network and design premier multiplayer online games for dedicated game players."

ArenaNet is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Korean company NCsoft, publishers of other MMORPGs such as City of Heroes and Lineage 2.

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[edit] History

ArenaNet was founded in 2000 by Mike O'Brien, Patrick Wyatt and Jeff Strain. All three of them came from Blizzard Entertainment and were previously involved in the development of multiplayer online games such as Warcraft, Diablo, Starcraft, World of Warcraft and the Battle.net gaming network.

The newly-formed business was originally called "Triforge", but was changed to "ArenaNet" shortly after.

ArenaNet was acquired by NCsoft in 2002.

[edit] Staff

Over the years, ArenaNet has grown to 100+ employees. Besides the three founders there are several other staff members "visible" to the community, for example Gaile Gray, Andrew Patrick, Emily Diehl or Isaiah Cartwright. A full list of the ArenaNet team can be found in the game credits, as well as on the ArenaNet website (see external links below).

[edit] ArenaNet on the Wiki

ArenaNet host the wiki and play a purely technical role in maintaining the wiki. However, some ArenaNet employees often contribute as 'normal' users; on the Guild Wars Wiki, some ArenaNet employees provided implementation details, provided high quality renders and collected information on bugs and game balance. Guild Wars 2 Wiki:About has more information.

[edit] News and announcements

ArenaNet are releasing little information about Guild Wars 2 at the moment. If any new information becomes available it will be put on the News page.

[edit] Player suggestions and feedback

ArenaNet is collecting Guild Wars 2 suggestions on the original wiki.

[edit] External links

Retrieved from "http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/ArenaNet"
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