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• • WAR copied WoW?

  • Originally posted by demolishIX
    

    Originally posted by Guida
    

    I heard that Blizzard asked for  the rights to make a Warhammer  mmorpg game, but they dirent give them, soo they builded World of  Warcraft..... I dont know if is 100% true : its a rumor

    
     

     Err get your facts straight,blizzard tryed to get the rights to the Warhammer and Warhammer 40k universe,they didnt manage to but the games were already in developtment (SC and WC),soo they changed some stuff and renamed soo the lawsuit wouldnt punch them too hard.

     But since Warcraft (RTS) was a ripoff of WAR universe,WoW is a ripoff aswell.Want proof ?

    Look at the Blood elf arhitecture in WoW and then in WAR (exactly the same),look at the WoW dwarfs and the WAR dwarfs: they both live in a big underground city,they both like beer/brew ,they both are tech advanced,afaik WAR dwarfs are the only ones portraied (for the first time atleast) ,as technologicly advanced,having guns and copters in a fantasy setting.

    
     

    Thats not proof.. i want a link to an artical or some archived news from the time. saying "Blizzard approched GW".. cant do that.. try again. and BTW WC was released 1994 and SC in 1998 they were not in development at the time.

  • Posted: 8/27/08 5:53 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • WAR copied WoW?

  • Originally posted by Sikhander
    

    And as a matter of fact today: Andy Chambers (the creative master mind together with Rick Priestley and with Art Direction from John Blanche behind Games Workshop) is today Creative Direction of Blizzard.

    The connections are many and anyone like Coffee trying to refute this fact are just making themselves look silly.

    And ultimately - who cares since we all just want to play good games? When it come to myself I am happy Andy is with Blizzard today since it means that from Diablo III onwards he will put his ideas into the Blizzard products. And that is 100% positive.

    
     

    I am refuting the whole "Blizzard had a deal with Gameswork shop" "Gameswork shop sued blizzard" "Starcraft was ment to be a WH40k game".. all those tall tales which dont have a shred of evidence anywhere. Yet people still think its the gospel truth. now unless you can provide evidence of the facts you say then your the one looking silly.
     

    And Andy chambers is working on Starcraft 2. not WoW.

  • Posted: 8/27/08 5:51 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • WAR copied WoW?

  • Originally posted by Brainybones
    

    Ok pplz, i have 5 things to say:

    1. Orcs, Elves, Goblins, Dwarves, Giants, Ogres, creepy aliens, superhumans and fluffy man eating bunnies have been around for 1000's of years, they are the stuff of myth and cannot be plaigerised because they are owned by all.

    2. probably the first mmo was mazewar, look it up here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazewar

    3. Games workshop, the owners of warhammer, recruited blizzard to create a warhammer fantasy computer game for them. For whatever reason the deal fell through and blizzard took the work they had done on the game, altered the art, created a new story and released it as warcraft, (this has been stated in previous posts). Games workshop cunsequently sued blizzard for plaigerism, but it was found that blizzard had changed enough to evade copyright laws (there is a huge rivalry between games workshop and blizzard, blizzard also has been accused of stealing stuff for starcraft and games workshop has been accused of stealing some of the zerg creatures for use as tyranids). I am sorry but this has NEVER been proven its just rumors.. with not an a single shred of proof.  Its a nice tale but its not been proven.

    4. who really cares? both have they're good points, both have they're bad points, they are both good games and both have fans. If u don't like one, play the other, if u like both, great, if u like neither fuck off and find something else to play.

    5. Those who think only ppl who hate WoW will play WAR are sadly mistaken. I play warhammer fantasy and i was going to play WoW because there was no warhammer mmo, but then i heard of WAR and promptly forgot about ever playing WoW and kept track of WAR for most of its developement (unfortunatly i never got to play the closed beta =[ )

    
     

  • Posted: 8/27/08 5:03 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)
• • okay I'm kinda getting away from war sub.

  • nuff said!!

    

  • Posted: 8/27/08 4:48 AM
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• • WAR copied WoW?

  • Graphics

    Warhammer has so many different looks, from the very cartoony to the serious.. its hard to not look like 1 of the Warhammer versions. But IMHO WoW has the better graphics.. not from a technical standpoint but from an artisic and visual standpoint.. theres so much more detail in WoW graphics than WARs.

      
               WAR (climax)                              WAR (Mythic)                                 WoW:WOTLK

    Lore

    Lore is a story they, dont share the same story, Warhammer has a very basic story about an endless war.. WoWs story is far deeper. IMHO

    Gameplay

    The similaries with WoW are obvious if you cant see those then your blind. yes theres some DAoC in there too. WoW is infulence by previous blizzard games such as Diablo but also games that came after Diablo such as EQ and OU.. WAR if infulence in the same way by games inc WoW that came before it.

    But who cares. Well find out in a few weeks if WAR delivers

     

  • Posted: 8/27/08 4:38 AM
    WAR (Warhammer Online)