If anyone is interested you can watch, or listen while you work like I did, to the interviews by alovingrobot of former EQ & VG devs. You get some insight to what went on behind the scenes of both games. I know we like to shit on Brad but it got emotional a few times when they would talk about him & how much he helped them. Both Elidroth and Bill Fisher broke down at certain points. He made the point that how the Sigil thing went down tore Brad apart more than we think, and that he never fully recovered. That combined with his wife's cancer, who died only a month after he did, might have been one of the reasons for his early passing.
Did not know his wife passed right after him, what a sad end :*( I'm thankful for what he brought to the table... hell anytime a new TLE shows up, or I read the original EQ strategy guide (perfect toilet book lol) I get the itch to play...