Ya, GW orcs and Blizzard orcs look nothing alike, and the humans from GW are based off renaissance Holy Roman Empire/Prussia, and not based off generic medieval humans.
Erm no, there is more that Blizzard borrowed (Activision Blizzard I shoulkd say) than just the looks. Far more really. Furthermore storywise WOW is a bit 1 dimensional, also shown by your own quote.
Humans as 1 coherent blob or Orcs as one coherent blob do no exist in Warhammer (and also in Warcraft for a long while until WOW, and even there one can argue that realistically one cannot lump all of a specific race into a faction or culture).
For instance yes the Sigmar Humans are based on Prussia and the Holy Roman Empire, but you also have Humans around that are based on the French aristocracy. The russian Aristocracy, several of the Asian cultures, British.. and most of it medieval or slightly later.
Just as not all High Elves are of the same house either.
I know you wish to "wipe the street clean" infront of Blizzard's mansion, but really it is a copmany, there is no need to defend them (Same goes for GW, gosh that company hates its fans sometimes
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Blizzard did rip a shitload of from the GW Warhammer FB universe. Not saying they didn't write stuff on their own though. But ripping each other off happens constantly, that is why Blizzard shouldn't sue this company for protecting a game they made (as in this case the whole game was copied). Ripping off is one thing, blatant copy of code, looks and gameplay a whole different thing all together.
If we start suing too much, we'll get "Everybody vs Everybody" as really we all did something wrong to someone else
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