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[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Though you could do an identical meme with Games Workshop and Blizzard. There were so many people back in the day that didn't know Warhammer 40k had been around for over a decade when StarCraft released.

And then the same thing happened again when Dawn of War was released.

[–] TeenieBopper@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, the original warcraft was supposed to be an rts using the Warhammer IP.

[–] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Starcraft was also supposed to be a Warhammer 40k game iirc.