Carrie Gouskos shares a couple WAR teasers
by Brooke Pilley 
Sep 29th 2009 at 3:00PM
Filed under: Fantasy, Interviews, Warhammer Online
MMO blogger Werit recently caught up with Mythic Entertainment's Carrie Gouskos and asked her a few questions. For those of you who don't know Carrie, she's an associate producer for Warhammer Online who has worked on such things as the Tome of Knowledge, user-interface, Realm War website, and Mac client.. The interview mostly covers things she's been working on, so be sure to check it out.While discussing the Realm War site, Carrie offered this teaser: "Actually one of the unannounced Special Projects that we've been investigating since the beginning of the year is an example of an extension of the Realm WAR. I can't spoil it now, but I would keep an eye open in the next month or so for more info." We can't help but wonder if this has anything to do with EA's May 2008 acquisition of MMO social network, Rupture.
Carrie also briefly mentions something about a "cards" page in the Tome. Will WAR be getting a trading card game? Does this signal an imminent RMT or free-2-play model? That's just speculation at this point but we'll keep our ear to the ground for you.
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Vulturion said on 3:44PM 9-29-2009
Nah; the mysterious card section of the Tome has always been there, so it's not indicative of a move to f2p/freemium - maybe of RMT, but it would seem a little bloody-minded to pursue such an avanue when the core game is in some straits.
Being a fan of card games and the Warhammer IP though, I would love a non-subscription model that only requires the core game in small doses.
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Eben said on 3:46PM 9-29-2009
My dream; Microsoft buys EA, abolishes Mythic, and sells the rights to WAR to a company that can do the IP justice, like Relic. If not, just turn off the lights on WAR altogether...better than watching that piece of garbage slowly collapse in on itself.
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ymrar said on 3:49PM 9-29-2009
I had a moment of revelation about the Cards in ToK. I don't know if someone has talked about this, but there is a FFG living card game (read collectible card game) called Warhammer Invasion. I could almost bet it's some codes in the cards.
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Vulturion said on 5:08PM 9-29-2009
Ooh; that 'LCG' product is mighty cool!
But sadly, already missed the boat for a virtual RL tie-in with WAR (e.g. codes to unlock decks in-game); if they were to add this product to WAR it seems extremely likely that it'd be full RRP with none of the collectibility of a (rather beautiful in this case) physical product.
Of course a means to play online would be more valuable to some folks, but at $29 entry price pitched to a WAR-sized playerbase mostly composed of hardy PvPers... it'd not be a purchase anyone'd make without risk.
Not to mention a virtual collection would only last as long as a WAR subscription, or long-term (short-term for pessimists) only so long as WAR itself.
ymrar said on 5:03AM 9-30-2009
Oh they might have missed the initial rush, but not even WoWtcg depends on online players alone. It's a good game, with good looking cards and "free lore" from the online game.
Warhammer card game has interested players from the fans of Warhammer already. Mythic has tied their online prize codes from Red Alert games to conventions and whatnot. In my opinion, Not using codes on those cards would be stupid from FFG and Mythic.
Mythic might get new players from Warhammer fans playing the card game. "Hey, I got this weird card! What does it do? Well, I got it.. might as well see what it looks like in the game.."
FFG might get new players from online gamers. "I just want that cool thingy for my char... it's too cool to miss.. Well.. now that I have these cards, why not try the game.. Hey, I actually like it.. Giev more cards!"
The success of such symbiosis would not be as great as WoWs of course. What does? But you cant deny the synergy.. :)