Title: proof: Warcraft was originally going to be Warhammer
Slug: proof-warcraft-was-originally-going-to-be-warhammer
Date: 2011-05-01 23:22:58
Tags: Warhammer 40000,Videogames

 <p>For many years there has been a legend about <strong>Warcraft</strong>, that the first game of one of the best money-making <strike>machines</strike> franchises was in fact going to be originally the computer version of <strong>Warhammer</strong>, by Games Workshop. </p>  <p>Stories say that GW decided to cancel it (or decided to not do it) but Blizzard went on and released Warcraft: Orcs &amp; Humans.</p>  <p>I've tried many times to hunt for reliable sources about this, not finding a single non-forum based comment/version/claim.</p>  <p>Well, today, reading a spanish PDF e-zine (<a href="http://www.cargad.com/pdf/cargad10.pdf">Cargad! #10</a>) I found an interview with Félix Paniagua, an ex-GW miniatures scuptor that claims the following (fragment on page 22):</p>  <p><img alt="intereview excerpt in spanish" src="https://images.kartones.net/posts/theelderthoughts/felix_paniagua_wacraft_warhammer.png" /></p>  <p>Felix: [...] <em>Did you knew that Warcraft was going to be Warhammer?</em></p>  <p>Interviewer: <em>What?</em></p>  <p>Felix: <em>The guys at Blizzard proposed Games Workshop to do a computer game based on Warhammer. Games Workshop said no, so Blizzard still continued with it and called it Warcraft. Games Workshop didn't took long to start being sorry [for the decision they took].</em></p>  <p>&amp;#160;</p>  <p>So, for me an ex-employee's claim is enough proof that this is actually true. </p>