Warhammeronline.com Website Review

after five wonderful years, the war came to an end on december 18th, 2013.. reflections on warhammer online: age of reckoning carrie gouskos, producer. i was first introduced to warhammer online, when it was added last minute to gamespot.com’s e3 2006 stage show. as one of the hosts of the show, my responsibility was to research the game and the franchise, gather questions from the audience, and give a thoughtful informative interview with whomever had been sent over from the development team. i never could have anticipated what happened next. jeff hickman (executive producer) and paul barnett (creative director) gave one of the most memorable interviews in my career – and suddenly i was thrown into their universe. the online chat channel soliciting questions from the viewing public was spammed with directives like “no more questions, just let them keep talking” – which is not surprising if you’re at all familiar with jeff hickman’s indefatigable charisma and paul barnett’s pas*ionate humor. the tone, candor, and refreshing quality of how they spoke about this game that they so clearly cared about made you just want to be a part of it. what was more surprising, however, was what followed – a large group of developers, perhaps delirious after three days of non-stop game demos, partly exhilarated by the positive response to the game, showed up at the gamespot booth and invited me to their studio e3 party. i declined, because they scared me a little bit, but in retrospect it’s not hard to imagine how i ended up – three months i made an offhanded comment the other day to someone on the warhammer team that i spent six of the last seven years of my life working on warhammer. there were breaks in there, but most of them still related to warhammer in some way. some aspects of these efforts never saw the light of day. for example, we completed, pas*ed review, and ultimately opted not to release an iphone companion application that would allow