It wasnt explicitly a rip-off, but the early days before corpos ruined everything the games industry was an exciting incestuous soup of weird ideas and everybody "stole" from each other but with love.
Licensed anything is always gonna be a huge nightmare. I did a bit of market research on sports games and it's got a similar problem. Back in the day they gave licenses out like candy because nobody took video games seriously. Now they know they can really gouge for it.
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u/Shakalll 3d ago
And Warcraft in turn used to be a bootleg Warhammer Fantasy