Believe it or not he did have experience in the industry, first as a leader for the largest guild in WoW then I think as a game journalist.
I could be very wrong on that second one but he did kinda revive Destiny since year 1
So organising an “in-game guild” (a game of which has fanatic followers whom would buy anything WoW branded) & writing podcasts?
He absolutely [b]did not[/b] revitalise D1
Somehow he gets that credit & it’s totally unwarranted
Gavin Irby was the Raid Lead in D1
And VoG & TTK/Dreadnaught were already created in the IP by Staten (Dreadnaught & parts of a Raid {KF?}were in the Supercut)
Chris Barrett did a great job with Rise of Iron, leaving D1 in a great place (both atmospheric, lore & story) & thar was all wrecked in D2 Vanilla (remember that release lost 10 million+ players in just the first few weeks/month)