Guild Wars 2

Are the members of the board listed anywhere. I don’t mean the list of employee’s at the end of victory or death, more interested in the people who actually vote on the changes to gw2.

As ArenaNet is a wholly-owned subsidiary, the Members of the Board are probably found somewhere on NCSoft’s website(s). These members may, or may not, have anything directly to do with game content design and/or implementation. You may want to look into the Game/Design Directors, etc.

Good luck.

Wait, why are you looking for the board members? Is there a reason for this?

SirDrygan.1823:

Wait, why are you looking for the board members? Is there a reason for this?

OP is a consumer. thats reason enough in a capitalist society.

Knighthonor.4061:

SirDrygan.1823:

Wait, why are you looking for the board members? Is there a reason for this?

OP is a consumer. thats reason enough in a capitalist society.

If their goal is to make suggestions or offer complaints about the game design or implementation of support, they won’t be well served by starting with trying to find the board members. Sure, they can get the names; the question is whether it will help them work towards their goals.

Board members only makes sense if ArenaNet was a public company. It never was and even if it was, it’s now part of the NC West Holdings which is 100% owned by NCSOFT.

Behellagh.1468:

Board members only makes sense if ArenaNet was a public company. It never was and even if it was, it’s now part of the NC West Holdings which is 100% owned by NCSOFT.

Did that happen before or after Richard Garriott was awarded 32 million?

Garriott was awarded that money in 2011. ANet was acquired by NCSoft in 2002. NCSoft West was established in 2008.

Probably on a scrap of paper inside the tree house.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

As ArenaNet is a wholly-owned subsidiary, the Members of the Board are probably found somewhere on NCSoft’s website(s). These members may, or may not, have anything directly to do with game content design and/or implementation. You may want to look into the Game/Design Directors, etc.

Good luck.

Do you have any proof it is wholly-owned?? it is a full subsidiary and acquired by ncsoft. This means they bought over 50% of the company (and so are the ones making the decissions cause they have the majority). afaik, nobody said they bought all of it.

I personally think that of the three founders, Mike ’o Brien still owns his part of the company. Jefft Strain and Patrick Wyatt where likely the ones being bought out with shares in NCWest. (hence why they worked there). Thats how those deals normally goes. As Mike stayed the CEO, it is good if he also owns part of the company. It means he has a strong incentive for it to do good.

bottom line is however, you dont need to buy 100% of a company to call it a subsidairy. Only more then 50%

The members of the board don’t necessarily make all the decisions however, especially not the ones which are important to players.

I work for a very small organisation – about 35 employees total and there’s 4 people between me (low level employee) and the board.

And even there they only make very broad, high level decisions. They’ll decide the budget for each project, the time scale and approve a general outline of it, but that’s it.

If Anet works the same way that would mean the board would make a decision like “we will make an expansion pack where the story involves taking down the jungle dragon, it will add 1 new profession and new mechanics to the existing ones. The budget will be $x and we will aim for a release in y quarter n year.”

Then that’s the end of their involvement, unless the board members are also employees, in which case each individual will also have some involvement in their teams work.

Also a small note to the OP.
The board (if it would exist), has very limited influence on the main decissions. They mostly handle financial issues where they look at the revenue and profits and give tasks to lower departments to reach certain targets. They have no influence on decissions (or care bout) like “when is HoT release date”, or “a member got suspended and is angry”.

The real important decissions you are talking bout (like the HoT release date) is taken by a lower group of people. Although not all members in it are known I bet that Colin Johansen (studio lead) and Mike o’ Brien (CEO) are in it.

mercury ranique.2170:

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

As ArenaNet is a wholly-owned subsidiary, the Members of the Board are probably found somewhere on NCSoft’s website(s). These members may, or may not, have anything directly to do with game content design and/or implementation. You may want to look into the Game/Design Directors, etc.

Good luck.

Do you have any proof it is wholly-owned?? it is a full subsidiary and acquired by ncsoft. This means they bought over 50% of the company (and so are the ones making the decissions cause they have the majority). afaik, nobody said they bought all of it.

I personally think that of the three founders, Mike ’o Brien still owns his part of the company. Jefft Strain and Patrick Wyatt where likely the ones being bought out with shares in NCWest. (hence why they worked there). Thats how those deals normally goes. As Mike stayed the CEO, it is good if he also owns part of the company. It means he has a strong incentive for it to do good.

bottom line is however, you dont need to buy 100% of a company to call it a subsidairy. Only more then 50%

ArenaNet’s Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/ArenaNetInc/info?tab=page_info

NCSOFT press release in the boilerplate about the company.

http://us.ncsoft.com/en/news/press-releases/ncsoft-and-aren.php

One little change in IndigoSundown’s timeline. NC West was formed in 2008 when they consolidated their US and EU NC operation branches and the Austin studio but in November 2012 NCSOFT converted NC West into NC West Holdings and moved both Carbine and ArenaNet into it. This makes NC West Holdings the basket that holds all of their NA/EU eggs operations.

Thanks, Behellagh, I knew I had seen that somewhere. =)

mercury ranique.2170:

Also a small note to the OP.
The board (if it would exist), has very limited influence on the main decissions. They mostly handle financial issues where they look at the revenue and profits and give tasks to lower departments to reach certain targets. They have no influence on decissions (or care bout) like “when is HoT release date”, or “a member got suspended and is angry”.

The real important decissions you are talking bout (like the HoT release date) is taken by a lower group of people. Although not all members in it are known I bet that Colin Johansen (studio lead) and Mike o’ Brien (CEO) are in it.

The only board is NCSOFT’s. NC West Holdings does have a President, I think it’s NCSOFT’s CEO’s current wife IIRC.

Yep.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2015/07/134_172359.html
http://mmoculture.com/2015/01/ncsoft-new-president-announced-for-global-and-western-ambitions/

She also inspired a Korean drama about student’s life at their premier tech university KAIST. She also has a PhD from MIT on AI. Youngest Korean woman to earn a PhD.