They wanted players to focus on the project instead of the man behind the curtain. The reality is, they were probably people disliked in sbemu or live shadowbane servers. They're 2 (or 1 imo) people who came out with a fake (or real) cover story about who they were.
Then they're still better programmers as they've fixed more than sbemu has. If sbemu's code is stolen, then Olga & Artyom must've had a time machine because sbemu's code isn't worth stealing. So why does MagicBane run better? When I look at the list of things sbemu still has to fix, there's things that MB has already fixed. Code is stolen right? So everything that's better on Magicbane absolutely must've been taken from sbemu's code. #1 reason you don't play magicbane: stolen code. I love re-hashing this a forum where both communities can collide finally.
