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loooks like wow...
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Who ever keeps on saying that should be shot. WoW came out like 2 years ago Warhammer has been out since late 80's. The tabletop pieces look exactly like the ingame char's in the pics. If u say it looks like WoW you should be shot period.
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It seems to me that all of us have lost our patience.
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Warhammer has been around longer than even blizzard itself :P dont fool yourself.
Ok OP, can I shoot this guy? rockin_ufo, learn to bloody spell.
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"The first edition of Warhammer Fantasy Battles was released by Games Workshop in the Spring of 1983."
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from Blizzard themselves said this and I quote from him, “All art is
derivative.” I am sure even Blizzard knows that a lot of ideas that Warcraft
has (ie, Dwarves love ale) came from Warhammer. That being said, Warhammer took
those ideas from some other intellectual property, whereas that said IP did so
from another one. However the quality Warhammer is known for obviously stands
out.
Another similarity comes from Starcraft and Warhammer 40K (Tyranids
vs Zerg anyone?) Perhaps it is the idea also that Starcraft is a lot like 40K
that puts the Games Workshop intellectual properties vs. the Blizzard
intellectual properties.
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and tolkien was before Warhammer.. waka waka!
dont think Games Workshop took ideas from him tho. do think blizzard took ideas from Games workshop to make their games.
the games do look very similare, if you check the screenshots posted from both, but this is because:
1. they both started with the models of GW, to built from.
2. dwarfs are hard to make, if you want a very unique one(every single race has the base features, such as dwarfs are short, "fat", beer drinking, angry people and so on)
-iCeh
You are very much correct, BUT!
You all have to keep in mind one thing. Warhammer may have been around much longer than Warcraft, but WoW has been around much longer than WAR.
Because of that reason, WAR will always be compared to WoW, not the other way around.
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But first to be sure it's a witch we must see if he has the weight of a duck!
.....of course I got better.
I can live with WoW graphics bolted onto the DAoC RvR concept with EQ2's crafting complexity and CoH's character diversity.
I'm not going to get that I know, but I can dream
To fuel the argument I offer this.
Up until Games Workshop created Warhammer, Orcs were considered to have Black or Brownish skin.
GW upset a lot of the Fantasy types by giving Orcs Green skin.
Why do Orcs in WoW have green skin ?
Why do Orcs in WoW look so similar to the ones in the above link ?
Why am I writing this when there is sunshine outside and beer in the fridge ?
Sorry folks - the call of alcohol has destroyed my chain of thought.
Buy Beer. Buy WaR. Bye Bye
A bit Off topic, but...
Every time i see the expression Intellectual Property i laugh... I mean isn't the concept just plain stupid? 'i thought of this first so you're not allowed to think about it'... Or more likeöy, 'i claim to have thought about this first...' ... or even more likely 'I was the first to get a piece of paper that says that i claim to be the first...' ...
Laws like that are going to send us back to the stone age sooner or later :P
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