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Leinad:
In all fairness the reason we ARE talking about WoW stuff in the WAR thread is that someone mentioned that you DID have to PvP in oder to be good at PvE and I was disagreeing, and how we got there was by trying to define WAR as different from WoW. So, I feel, it was pertinent.

Ozymandias:
I think a MMORPG can separate itself from WoW. No one compares EVE to WOW, because they're just not relatable.

Of course, Warhammer has a really, really, really hard time separating itself from Warcraft since, uh, Warcraft 1 was supposed to be a Warhammer game. Then Games Workshop decided they didn't want to have a PC game, so Blizzard spun it off into their own, strikingly similar mythology, became ridiculously successful, and now Games Workshop is playing catch-up.

est:
So did Blizz pay GW for the use of WH:FB and WH:40K IP or did they build pretty much their complete games empire on stolen ideas?

Ozymandias:
The latter, I believe.

I honestly don't know if GW ever tried to stop them. Seems like they would've tried for some sort of compensation considering the blatant similarities between both Warcraft and Starcraft's mythologies to the two Warhammer mythologies.

est:
I just did a bit of googling (because wiki is mysteriously devoid of info on this) and found a few references to Blizzard settling with them quietly at some point in the past.  Of course, I a sure that they are kicking themselves now for whatever paltry amount they settled for.

I agree with one article I found though that they are both based on other source materials, and that it's been so long/so much other work done on the Warcraft universe that it is a legitimate game in its own right by now.  Hopefully they will go the same way with the Starcraft universe, too.

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