Dumb question... since we haven't heard from VV directly in a while (understandably so, of course), is Brian Clayton (who Disney was told to get in touch with in that version of the pitch) still on board?
Or is he out of it entirely, and the Google version of the pitch now more along the lines of "here's an IP that NCSoft has buried, please buy and unbury it, and in return we, the players, will swarm back to it", with no mention of Brian?