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DJDizzy
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i went down to my local GW store and one of the employees had an old Wacraft 1 box and all of the sudden he shouted: ''HEY LOOK THERE STANDS GAMES WORKSHOP ON THIS BOX'', the manager then said: ''yeah they bought the orc license from us''.
anyone of you actually knew this (i didnt)(please dont flame me for grammar og spelling errors)
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lol
there might be hope for you still!
That sounds kind of fruity to me, I never heard of such
There's such a thing as a GW store?
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When Wacraft was being orignally produced it was being made as a Warhammer game. However GW didn't like the way it was going and said they couldn't use the license. So instead of scrapping everything they changed names and bits and bobs and made Warcraft. Hence the similar name, and the similarities between the two worlds which causes many cries of "WAR stole off WoW". Anyone found saying the previous statement should be strangled.
Nice tin-foil hat you got there!
Maybe we should all be wearing tin-foil hats then, cause I've heard numerous times that this story is true.
"Because it's easier to nitpick something than to be constructive." -roach5000
Well, I have never seen this story confirmed by an official source. Additionally, Orcs have appeared in works before that of Warhammer (Lord of the Rings, anyone?), so I do not see why Orcs would be licensed from Games Workshop by Blizzard.
In addition, nothing in Warcraft reminds me of a game that was originally to be a Warhammer game. If this was true, there would be more evidence. I am aware things would obviously be switched when the license got pulled, but they would mostly be cosmetic changes done to avoid lawsuits. As it stands, Warcraft does not hint that this occurred.
Uh....yeah? Its only ben around for about two decades though. Thats where you go to buy paints, brushes, hobby gear, codexs, army books, books, and miniutures for the TT game. Its the thriving face to face community of warhammer. Its where you go to play, Iv been going to the one by my house for years.
Heres a listing to find one near you, haha:
http://maps.games-workshop.com/route/usmap/FindPane.asp?ServerURL=http://mapserver/route/webgate.dll&GroupID=routemap&UserID=DEMO&MapID=US Map&L=0&T=0&R=0&B=0&X=400&Y=390
I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad, The dreams in which I'm dieing are the best I've ever had.
One word: Tolkien.
so...
Nice tin-foil hat you got there!
Not sure this theory warrents the tin-foil hat, but I am somewhat skeptical of this theory myself.
I have heard this theory many times in the past few months, but I 've never heard it from what I would consider a reliable source. Personally I wouldn't consider the local pimply-faced GW clerk a reliable source, but I have heard it from a few GW staff in recent months. I believe the exact theory is that GamesWorkshop, unhappy with the development of what would become Warcraft:Orcs and Human, pulled their liscense and instead handed their liscense over to create Shadow of the Horned Rat.
While I find this somewhat plausible I still doubt that this is true. Besides the fact that I've never heard this from a credible source I also doubt this theory because in 15 years of being an avid Warhammer hobbiest I hadn't heard this theory before this year. I attribute the rise of this theory to the fact that many gamers have been calling WAR a WoW clone. WIth that in mind its more likley that fanbois of WAR were attracted to this particular theory because it lets them say that it is in fact WoW that is the clone.
Nice tin-foil hat you got there!
Are you for real? Please tell me you're joking.
Warhammer invented green orcs, and the story I told is perfectly true. It is pretty much just accepted fact.
While I know this isn't evidence, it does show how the idea is far more common than just "crackpot theorists"
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10