You heard it here first...

[draxynnic]

...If the Starcraft 2 story involves Raynor accidentally activating something that gains the attention of the Xel'Naga, Kerrigan acting to ensure the Xel'naga actually get here, and then the Protoss making some huge sacrifice to defeat them (although the expansion pack, of course, shows they've only been scattered and weakened rather than actually

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[scribe_of_stars]

If you want to talk about unoriginality, we can reopen the debate concerning whether or not Blizzard ripped off Games Workshop. Since there's no concrete evidence to support this hypothesis, however, such a debate can end only in a massive flamewar and, if it goes on long enough, heresy against the God-Emperor of Mankind, the answer to which must be delivered from the barrel of a Commissar's bolt pistol.

...And then Korea will come after us.

[kaura_nighthawk]

I think Blizzard's dev team has gleefully admitted that they're all, to the last man, Warhammer 40k fanboys.

That Fel Reaver in World of Warcraft, looming over the seared plains of Hellfire Peninsula, looks awfully familiar~

[draxynnic]

Given that I believe Andy Chambers is now on said Dev Team, I think that's a given... (And then there's the bonus scene you got for completing WC3 in hard mode...)

One rumour I've heard was that the original Warcraft was actually done as a Warhammer game, and got repackaged when Games Workshop refused to grant a license.

Bet that's a decision they're regretting today if it is true. I don't even want to think about how much cash they'd be raking in now if the 'Craft series had been 'Hammer all along...