Open Up Your Lich King Box.....

… see where it is written

If you stare long into the abyss… the abyss stares back into you ?

Well, shouldn’t that be in quotes?

I know Blizzard isn’t quoting Nietzsche exactly, but still…

Q

Considering all the various content that Blizzard has blatantly ripped off from somewhere else … are you really surprised?

What else did they rip off, Knorf?

Thanks

Quasi

Is it in italics? Can’t a quote reach a level of popularity where it can be freed of its quotation-mark bonds? Not all who wander are lost. I’m not a crook. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Bitch set me up!

Oh My God Cisco, you made me** LAUGH**!!!:D:D:D

Thank you, SO MUCH!

And no, it isn’t in italics, but it IS in all CAPS!

Too cool, Cisco!

Too cool!

Thanks

Q

PS: You forgot “She came on to ME!”

Glad I could be of service :smiley:

Warhammer, for one. You see, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans was originally going to be a Warhammer game, GW pulled out (or they never got the license in the first place, I’ve heard conflicting stories) so Blizzard had to change the story to something somewhat original and make up some units and such. Though whether most of the OTHER stuff they ripped off falls in the category of “rip off” or “affectionate reference” is up for debate.

Edit: Oh, also there are these things called the Morgaine Stories from the '70s/'80s… uh, let’s just say there’s some gates to other realms suspiciously similar to the Dark Portal and the third book is called Fires of Azeroth…

I think everyone should change King to ‘Queen’ and forget the context for a second. Then re-read the OP.

(Carson voice): I did not know that.

The trouble is that a lot of the elements they use are so cliched that it’s hard to even call them rip-offs. For instance, Arthas’s look is a direct rip-off of Elric of Melnibone: albino with runesword. But Elric’s been copied so many times that it’s hard to say that the look hasn’t passed (in a non-technical sense) into the public domain.