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ArenaNet, NCSOFT, Bill Roper & GuildWars

I lifted the following blurb from the ArenaNet Faq page for Guildwars:

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ArenaNet is a wholly owned subsidiary of NCsoft Corporation, and was founded in March 2000 by key members of the creative teams behind Blizzard’s game series Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo, as well as the Battle.net gaming network. You can get a lot of good information about the company at our website: www.arena.net.
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My question is...
Bill Roper and a handful of other key players just left blizzard in the last year. Was there a previous exodus from blizzard around 2000? Is Bill Roper and the latest clan involved with ArenaNet/GuildWars? Can anyone give me the skinny on Ex-Diablo1/D2 programmers?

Thanks
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