Hollismason wrote:They should bundle it with Porn DVDs.

They should bundle it with Porn DVDs.

'Deep Strike'?

They should do another 'giant' issue I seem to recall that sold very well.

Sidstyler wrote:

They should bundle it with Porn DVDs.

Seeing as how it would inevitably feature Space Marines in some way...no.

Sidstyler wrote:I've seen magazines bundled with porn DVDs that weren't fething $9.

BrookM wrote:Better yet, bring back Fat Bloke.

Hollismason wrote:They should bundle it with Porn DVDs.

Polonius wrote:White Dwarf could live again as soon as they start putting rules back in it. Even if they're not "official," I've never understood why they aren't packing it with scenarios, campaign rules, apoc datasheets, COD and Planetstrike only supplemental content, etc. And that's just for 40k!

They seemed to get some burned out by chapter approved in 3rd edition they've completely stopped doing any gaming content. Alas, that's what we want, and it's the one thing I can't get online for free.

H.B.M.C. wrote:Could you really tell the difference?

Kyley wrote:Can I just ask that all the "I hate WD people and will never buy it" people to buy this one issue so that maybe GW gets the message

Cheese Elemental wrote:

Hollismason wrote:Obviously this is some sort of sinister plot in order to get competitive players to purchase subscriptions to white dwarf. Once that happens they will have your address.


Expect the stormtroopers to burst into your house any moment and take you away for thought crimes.

*sweating and panting*
Guys, don't buy WD. It's a trick, I subscribed and they're here right now! Oh God, they're coming through the door! Mummy! Don't let them-Aaargh! No, no, please, don't take my 3.5 Chaos codex! No, I have to pass it on to my children! They need to have hope! I...
"Silence, creative one!"
*BLAM*

artyboy wrote:Glad I live in the US. They wouldn't have made it through the door.

notprop wrote:In the UK any paper that sells allot of copies always includes one very important thing with out which they are nothing - A page 3 stunner!!

Lose the 2 page contents/editorial and include a 2 boobed hotty chewing on the end of a paint brush suggestively whilst contemplating what elite choices she wants to include in her tournament list. I'm sure one of those would be too hard to find at GWHQ?

George Spiggott wrote:They should do another 'giant' issue I seem to recall that sold very well.

Okay chaps, listen up.

This is the one and only time I am going to post on Warseer (which I have been reading now ever since I began working for GW three years ago). The reason I am doing this is, to be honest, the amount of innacurate speculation about myself is getting a bit irritating, so I thought I would set the record straight. My direct involvement with GW prior to this precluded me from posting earlier, and to be honest I was just going to walk away, but I think I will feel better once the record has been set straight.

I am not here to comment on GW's policies, what has happened to WD or anything else about the company, only to give you some answers to the questions which come up time and again on the forums about myself.

Point one – me
I have been working in magazines for 10 years. I have worked on many publications as a freelance writer, but most of my work has been for SFX (1997-2003) UK WD (2004-2005) and International WD (2005-2007). I have indeed left Games Workshop to help run a new SF magazine named Death Ray. This has been set up by Matt Bielby, who is the launch editor and editor-in-chief. My title is editor and I will be taking over full editorial responsibility for the mag once we are past the launch period. Matt and I, though we have known each other for years, have never worked together before. Though he set up SFX, by the time I began on the mag he had moved on to his next launch project. Buy it, it's great.

Aside from the odd review, I have never, ever worked on a video games magazine.

Point two – Why I left
I did not get pushed. GW were very keen for me to stay, but the Death Ray job came about at a very serendipitous juncture for me, and the experience it offered was too much to turn down. I enjoyed my time at GW. It was tumultuous, but I learned a lot, and I will always love the games. Why, only last week I was playing with my goblins. So to speak.

Point three – WD
WD was once pretty much one magazine – made in the UK, translated and added to abroad. Over time it became seven very different editions in different GW sales territiories. I was recruited at a time when this process of fragmentation had become complete. I started out as the UK "managing editor" which at GW meant that I worked under Paul Sawyer, but I was responsible for editing the UK magazine pretty much from the word go, supervised by Paul, (From the one after the Gimili issue –*the number escapes me –*in 2004) and not just from when the title "editor" was added to my name in UKWD310.

At that time the local editors had a lot of power, myself included, over their magazine. GW then decided to make a more unified global WD again so I was made International editor. Starting from THE GIANTS ROXXOR issue (yeah, I read the posts FPRIVATE "TYPE=PICT;ALT=" ) – WDUK 316 – we produced an increasing amount of centralised content. 50 pages at first, rapidly rising to pretty much the whole magazine when I left in March 2007 – 98 pages in all. Owen and the other local editors actually have no influence over what the central content was, and instead produced the sales information and some of the hobby content (notably articles about hobbyists stuff). So, if you want to blame someone, blame me. I was the editor.

Point four – Why the changes?
I am a magazine editor. The first that WD had had that had worked outside of GW (I think). My job is to get a brief from whoever is in charge, and make a magazine to that brief. Sometimes, like in my new job, I help define that brief, sometimes I don't. At GW I didn't. WD is the way it is because, in my opinion at least, it is the most successful way of promoting its hobby to the widest range of people possible using the new releases (which is why the content for each system moves in strict rotation to be the majority of the mag in different months) which is roughly what my brief was. Yes, it is not the magazine it used to be, but it is doing a slightly different job for different people. Most of the reasons for the changes cited on this forum are baloney, and it certainly was not some crusade of mine to "destroy" "your" magazine.

So, that's that. I will not be posting again. I just ask you, for the sake of the people that work on WD, to understand the multifarious pressures the team are under, how much work goes on to make the magazine. The team are not "lazy" they do not hate you, nor are they stupid or malevolent. WD has to appeal to people from the ages of 11 to 60. The team do not have a personal mission to spoil your fun. They are just people that love the GW hobby trying to make something cool within a set of pre-defined parameters, and I think they do a damn fine job.

Oh, one last thing. We never fixed the battle reports. We sometimes replayed them to get a better story. That story did not involve the new army crushing an old one, more for reasons of "Crumbs, the game finished on turn two and the super-nice Steam Tank blew up the first time it fired its gun". Consider this – the guy playing with the new army will have been writing about it for six months. He knows all its tricks, the opponent does not. That is why the new force usually wins, it really is that simple.

Over and out,

Guy