Emily Diehl leaves ArenaNet

Emily Diehl has joined the ranks of former ArenaNet employers who have left the company to work at Undead Labs (together with Jeff Strain, James Phinney, Doug Williams and some others).
I'm not sure if everyone knows how much Emily has helped the community. She worked at the GW1 and GW2 websites, she helped to manage the community, and she did an incredibly huge amount of work on both Guild Wars Wiki and Guild Wars 2 Wiki.
She's also one of the nicest (and prettiest ) ArenaNet employers, and one of the few who regularly interact with the community. I am somewhat worried about the future of GW2 by seeing how many talented individuals are leaving ArenaNet in order to work at Undead Labs.
Erasculio|||What's up with all the Anet figure heads leaving Anet??!
My view:
All this slow move is quite strategic. The moves did not happen out of internal conflict. Most of the heavy lifting is complete. So the visionaries of GW2 are moving on to:
a.) break new grounds in MMO without distracting the main work at Anet too much (hence the move to Undead Labs; it's more efficient to draft out a new game with a small, experienced, but innovative group).
b.) allow younger devs to take on new responsibilities and thus grow. Anet will become better. And devs going from Anet to Undead labs in time will be better due to personal growth.
My 2 cents. What's your opinion?|||I think Undead labs will have sick games then. As for Anet, as Thalanor said, the new devs will get to work a bit more and get experience out of it. I dont think that it will affect GW2 in a bad way... Maybe Im wrong but thats what Im thinking and hoping right now.|||That or working for NCsoft was worse than they expected. /Negative.|||Definitely seems strange, would not have seen this coming at all.|||Her bio on the Anet site says she is planning for the zombie apocalypse, seems like a natural move to me.
Not really that worried about anyone coming and going. People get bored, people want to do something new. It doesn't matter how many 'wonderful workplace' awards your workplace gets if it is the same thing day in day out and someone is dangling a higher salary or more creative control.|||I'm not happy to hear this, but also I cant say I'm really surprised. Knowing how much Emily loves zombie stuff I was wondering why she didn't left at the same time with other anet members for Undead Labs.
Oh well. I hope someone else will come soon to take care of wikis :(|||a real shame to see her go :( she is one of the reasons why anet's community relations are so great, and why the guild wars wiki is one of the best supported game wikis.|||I'd probably leave Anet for Undead labs too, if their product wasn't a) for consoles and b) about bloody zombies. Speaking as a player...
Well, who knows. I'm sick to death of zombies but I recall thinking to myself that I'd buy any title Anet put out, back in '05. I was that impressed with GW I didnt care if their next game was about golf or knitting. It may be that (05)Anet's next game is about zombies, and maybe I should give it a go. They didn't let me down before.|||Quote:








I'm sick to death of zombies




I'm not, I love all you guys.
Emily is very talented and I'm sure that she'll do a great job at UL. However, there might be many reasons to worry about GW2, but her leaving isn't one of them - there are still many of talented people at ANet. I see this as something positive, because the more Undead Labs grow, the more we can look forward to good things coming from them!