Guild Wars 2 Forum

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Community Coordinator

Hey everyone,

As of tomorrow, I will no longer be a part of the ArenaNet team. I have accepted a job offer elsewhere, and it will be a big step in my career path.

I’ve been an avid Guild Wars fan since the first one shipped. My life has been intertwined with ArenaNet in many ways. I have learned so much from the team and so much from the community as I’ve progressed through the positions I’ve held here (QA, Alpha Coordinator, PvP Community Coordinator to now covering all of Competitive, Skills and Balance); it’s hard to imagine leaving.

Once I made it onto the Competitive Team, I knew it was the place for me. I have an extremely competitive background, so everything really clicked into place. Needless to say, it’s been a huge pleasure to work here and be on the Competitive Team for the past year.

I’m sad to leave you all behind, but I will still be involved with the team in my own ways. I still hang out with a lot of these guys after work, and will keep an eye on the forums every once in a while to see how things are going. I’m confident that the team can handle things once I’m gone.

I will always love Guild Wars and will continue to work on ranking up in PvP/WvW, and would love to ready up with those of you that are interested!

If you’d like to know what kinds of things I’ll be doing in the future or would like to just stay in touch, here’s some of my info:

Twitch (new): http://www.twitch.tv/allie_hugs
Twitter: @AllieMurdock
IGN: Allie.9268

Much love,

Allie

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Posted by: Mike.4830

Mike.4830

We are gonna miss you. So much. Allie.
With Love, Backpack and The Community

Backpack God
The Absurd [RIP] ESL Go4 Weekly Winners
Outplayed By Children [GG] ToL 2 Winners

(edited 2014-04-08 20:18:42 by Mike.4830)

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Posted by: Jocksy.3415

Jocksy.3415

I wasn’t always nice, but I greatly appreciated your (too-short) involvement with us.
Hopes the roads you take bring you to destination!
GL&HF

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Posted by: Empathetic Fighter.2065

Empathetic Fighter.2065

low salaries create high fluctuation.
Definitely a big loss for the already weak team.

Read It Backwards [BooN]

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Posted by: BrunoBRS.5178

BrunoBRS.5178

you were always my favorite dev, allie! good luck wherever you’re going (don’t suppose you could give names, or else you’d have already, right?)

LegendaryMythril/Zihark Darshell

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Posted by: Rezz.8019

Rezz.8019

Allie, I didn’t know you for too long, but I know that you always did amazing job. This is definitely a huge loss for Anet and PvP.

Oh well, at least hopefully now you have a bit more time to get that dragon emote!

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Posted by: eleshazar.6902

eleshazar.6902

No! You can’t leave Allie….

Who will be the champion of the people? :’(

Best of luck to you though in your new job! I’m still voting for you in 2016.

#allieforprez2016

All professions level 80| Champion Paragon, Phantom, Genius
Phoenix Ascendant [ASH] | Rank 80

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Posted by: dargon.7253

dargon.7253

Bets of luck in your new endeavor Allie

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Posted by: Dirame.8521

Dirame.8521

WHY???? She was so young and so beautiful… why did she have to leave so soon…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TBQywGmMjQ

I make guides to builds you may not have heard of;
http://www.youtube.com/user/ceimash
http://www.twitch.tv/ceimash

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Posted by: silvermember.8941

silvermember.8941

Good for you. Moving on up in the world. You have the patience of a saint for having to deal with these forums for months.

Anyways, good luck.

As u know im pro. ~Tomonobu Itagaki

This is an mmo forum, if someone isn’t whining chances are the game is dead.

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Posted by: felivear.1536

felivear.1536

You seem nice. I didn’t agree with a lot of your posts, (or the fact that you posted your bowing out thread on basically every sub-forum) but to each their own. Enjoy your new career path and hopefully life treats you well!

feLIVEar: Your resident forum king.

(edited 2014-04-08 17:44:11 by felivear.1536)

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Posted by: Sanguina X.8301

Sanguina X.8301

Good luck with your new job. We’ll miss you!

- Sanguina X

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Posted by: Errant Venture.9371

Errant Venture.9371

Good luck Allie! You were a big help here. Will Grouch be taking back over as PvP Community Coordinator?

The Battle Bakery [vPie]

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Posted by: Zylonite.5913

Zylonite.5913

This is a big loss for the community. Good luck….

Betrayed by the gods of ANet

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Posted by: OIIIIIO.7825

OIIIIIO.7825

I’ll just leave this here. This is the first time I had ever heard of Allie on the web http://youtu.be/6_ruRwwgWEY

“Come Back Allie!”

Best of luck to you Miss Awesome! I wish you the best in your future endeavors!
Excelsior!

A victor gives no quarter when the victor shows no clemency or mercy
and refuses to spare the life in return for the surrender at discretion (unconditional surrender)
of a vanquished opponent.

(edited 2014-04-08 18:02:05 by OIIIIIO.7825)

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Posted by: Juan Ignacio.8903

Juan Ignacio.8903

meh

15chars

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Posted by: lordkrall.7241

lordkrall.7241

Good luck, and thanks for your work for the game.
I hope you have found a work with less blatant hate for everything.
Take care, and have fun!

Krall Bloodsword – Mesmer
Krall Peterson – Warrior
Piken Square

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Posted by: leman.7682

leman.7682

Kitten this, I’m out.

Leman

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Posted by: EverythingEnds.4261

EverythingEnds.4261

If you actually got an nice job offer somewhere else, you made the right decission to leave the sinking ship called GW2.

Good Bye!

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Posted by: Maylo.5892

Maylo.5892

Thanks Allie and good luck in your future career! I will follow you on twitch. ;D

Mr Maylo
Rank #1 Life

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Posted by: the sober ninja.6539

the sober ninja.6539

Allie Murdock.8152:
Hey everyone,
As of tomorrow, I will no longer be a part of the ArenaNet team. I have accepted a job offer elsewhere, and it will be a big step in my career path.
Allie

Kind of wondering if Allie know about this when she did the RU interview!

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Posted by: Allie Murdock

Allie Murdock

Community Coordinator

the sober ninja.6539:
Allie Murdock.8152:
Hey everyone,
As of tomorrow, I will no longer be a part of the ArenaNet team. I have accepted a job offer elsewhere, and it will be a big step in my career path.
Allie

Kind of wondering if Allie know about this when she did the RU interview!

I did not

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Posted by: the sober ninja.6539

the sober ninja.6539

Allie Murdock.8152:
the sober ninja.6539:
Allie Murdock.8152:
Hey everyone,
As of tomorrow, I will no longer be a part of the ArenaNet team. I have accepted a job offer elsewhere, and it will be a big step in my career path.
Allie

Kind of wondering if Allie know about this when she did the RU interview!

I did not

Life happens fast!

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Posted by: Guhracie.3419

Guhracie.3419

Good luck to you! Enjoy the places life is taking you!

“Be angry about legendary weapons, sure, but what about the recent drought of content?”
-Mike O’Brien
Because we can’t be angry about both?

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Posted by: Ostricheggs.3742

Ostricheggs.3742

bring back grouch!

twitch.tv/ostricheggs MOTM/TOL 2/TOG NA/WTS Beijing winner. Message me for PvP Coaching
@$20 an hour! It’s worth it!

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Posted by: Rym.1469

Rym.1469

Eh… Why you and not McCoy ? ;///

We’ll miss you! You had really good contact with community and have done so much in little time, wish you the best!

[rude]Antagonistka – Revenant, EU.
[SALT]Natchniony – Necromancer, EU.
Streams: http://www.twitch.tv/rym144

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Posted by: Thedenofsin.7340

Thedenofsin.7340

Can I have your stuff?

http://www.gw2sucks.com/

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Posted by: Marcos.3690

Marcos.3690

Allie, no one is allowed to make “I quit” topics, read the code of conduct please.

Jk, you were one of the best anets. Good luck wherever you go

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Posted by: sendmark.4731

sendmark.4731

Thanks for all your efforts Allie, good luck in your next job

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Posted by: Reikou.7068

Reikou.7068

WTB Allie Murdock PvP Announcer voice pack to remind us daily of our goddess.

Reikou/Reira/Iroha/Sengiku/Rinoka/Kuruse/Sakuho/Kinae/Yuzusa/Kikurin/Otoha/Hasue/Mioko
https://www.youtube.com/AilesDeLumiere
http://www.twitch.tv/ailesdelumiere

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Posted by: buckeyecro.9614

buckeyecro.9614

Allie, I just wanted to say thank you for all of your hard work for the community. <3

Good luck with your future endeavors!

Sanctum of Rall NA Engineer Commander

Guild Wars 2 needs a Public Beta Environment

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Posted by: Thedenofsin.7340

Thedenofsin.7340

rumor mill: Allie got a job at Motiga.

http://www.gw2sucks.com/

(edited 2014-04-09 00:45:46 by Thedenofsin.7340)

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Posted by: Iason Evan.3806

Iason Evan.3806

#Champion #Champ

Leader of The Guernsey Milking Coalition [MiLk] Sanctum of Rall

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Posted by: AlbertoUlkesh.4517

AlbertoUlkesh.4517

Good luck Allie. Hope you enjoy the new place!

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Posted by: Chase.8415

Chase.8415

Didn’t even give them a two week notice? That’s interesting….

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Posted by: nightzirch.3126

nightzirch.3126

You’ve done a great job, Allie!

Hi, I’m Chris aka nightzirch
Snow Crows [SC]
Front-end developer – SecretToymaker.com

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Posted by: DoYourBestBear.6810

DoYourBestBear.6810

Does this mean I can get in on that shoutcasting now?

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Posted by: Aza.2105

Aza.2105

Hey Allie,

I haven’t interacted with you very much. But regardless, I wish you luck with what ever you choose to pursue in the future.

Amd Ryzen 1800x – Amd Fury X -64GB of ram
Windows 10

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Posted by: lekyii.9856

lekyii.9856

Good luck Allie, i guess you will stay on an Ncsoft game

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Posted by: cheese.4739

cheese.4739

Cheers for your work, and well done putting up with all the nastiness that forum-goers throw around. Best of luck!

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Posted by: clint.5681

clint.5681

Well it seems we are down two community coordinators in 3 months. Even though I didnt agree with you often have fun at your new job at http://www.motiga.com/ and good luck.

Any Idea if or who will be taking over for you?

Rangir Dangir – Ranger | Mr. Ragr- Guardian| Sneak Stab – Thief | Mr. Ragir- Warrior
[url=https://] [/url]

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Posted by: Meglobob.8620

Meglobob.8620

All the best in your new job!

Good luck and try to have fun.

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Posted by: Allie Murdock

Allie Murdock

Community Coordinator

Chase.8415:
Didn’t even give them a two week notice? That’s interesting….

I did give them two weeks, actually. Just didn’t announce until today.

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Posted by: Allie Murdock

Allie Murdock

Community Coordinator

Thanks for all the well wishes everyone – makes me happy to see that my work hasn’t gone unnoticed!

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Posted by: Forsaker.9213

Forsaker.9213

Good for u , i dont think there is any future in company like anet.

http://pl.twitch.tv/forsaker_
http://youtube.com/forsakerpvp

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Posted by: Kitta.3657

Kitta.3657

Rym.1469:
Eh… Why you and not McCoy ? ;///

Wow, how inappropriately disrespectful.

On another note, We will dearly miss you Allie Wish you all the luck and fortune in your new adventures!

mouth too blunt, truth too loud

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Posted by: Kain Francois.4328

Kain Francois.4328

Hi, Murdock
I’ve seen your posts, and I can say you’ve done a fine job as community manager.

Hope to see you in-game!

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Posted by: JoopFOX.9510

JoopFOX.9510

Thanks Allie for all your work. I could tell from your posts you care about the game a lot, sometimes perhaps even a bit too much! You’ll be missed.

Professor James – Mesmer

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Posted by: eleshazar.6902

eleshazar.6902

So I just re read the title and pictured Allie leaving as she shoots arrows on her bear bow ranger.

Allie bows out!

Attachments:

All professions level 80| Champion Paragon, Phantom, Genius
Phoenix Ascendant [ASH] | Rank 80

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Posted by: RoyHarmon.5398

RoyHarmon.5398

Allie Murdock.8152:
Thanks for all the well wishes everyone – makes me happy to see that my work hasn’t gone unnoticed!

Probably over a year ago, I suggested a system to mark posts as “read” by developers/ArenaNet folks, so that we could have the peace of mind that comes with knowing that our ideas, comments, suggestions, and complaints were actually being seen by someone at the company. I said it didn’t really matter whether or not the ideas were implemented, and that the point was to let us know we had been heard; whether or not the idea held merit or was feasible, we could know that you were aware of it and that we wouldn’t have to keep saying the same things over and over, drowning each other’s suggestions in a constant, overwhelming torrent.

You replied to my post. Clearly, my idea wasn’t implemented (along with quite a long forum-related wish list, I’m sure), but that didn’t matter to me. You let me know that I was heard, and that my idea had at least been considered by someone at the company. Which, of course, was the whole point of my suggestion.

I still remember that, and I remember the sense of gratitude I felt at having been acknowledged. You’ve held a special place in my heart ever since, and you’ll be missed.

“It is the stupidest children who are the most childish
and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.”
- C. S. Lewis