A more fair comparison is probably Nyzul Isle from FF11. Randomized floors, can be easy or tricky and had some sort of powerups (if I recall, haven’t played that MMO since 2009)
Really Op you could go by literally anything in this game.Old god’s HP Lovecraft.MoP=China…etc etc.
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“The secret of Creativity is hiding your sources”
-Brigante Summerisle.
Or was it Albert Einstein?
Or was it the factually correct answer of C.M Joad?
There are only so many ideas and so many concepts and ways of implementing them.
Almost nothing is original anymore, everything is adapted (some things differ, but certainly as far as fantasy tropes go, ESO, FF, WoW, Warhammer? Nothing new. Nothing at all.)
Or alternately Naiads and Dryads from our myths and legends, where GW2 got them from.
Just a Generic old cryptic advisory figure, something of War and it’s mastery, could be Mars, could be Ares…
And said armour was inspired by over the top examples of real life ceremonial armour, I say ceremonial, because it is supremely impractical to actually fight in.
The idea of a bloated corpulent figure in a state of suspended decay is hardly a new one. Pretty sure the book ‘Dune’ was written before Warhammer was released, and before that, several religious cultures had hit upon the same idea, on the grounds that dead corpses bloat, stink and transmit disease. Some depictions of Crom Cruach of Celtic myth have him described that way. Nurgle was a copy.
And Greek Legend, The Never Ending story was a very recent work in the greater scheme of things. Even going by the titles like Polemarch you’re looking at Greek origin.
That is true, but I think Blizzard went to pains to make sure we -knew- it was, by the name. If they’d tried to hide it, it would have been a bit “ehhh, not good” but by openly going “Yes this is WoW’s version of Indiana Jones” they can legit go “Not actual Plagiarism, just a homage” Which is, fair, I guess.
Renown is not a copywrited word… any more than “Famous” or “Respected” which are synonyms. There are only so many words in language after all…
The First Medal of Honour games were the real OG FPS, or if you want to go back further, OG Doom…
But yeah, nothing has been copied here that wasn’t already a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a myth etc etc.
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Warcraft was originally going to be a Warhammer game. There has always been a
lot of similarities between the WoW universe and the Warhammer universe, not just in Shadowlands.
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But when we even look at the Warhammer (btw love the setting also) stuff like Tomb Kings is pretty much self explained from where the inspiration came.
When I see the Maw troops, I actually think of the Shivering Isles rather.
Sylvan is the language of Fey creatures in D&D. A lot of fantasy games rip their naming conventions and concepts from there 
I’m not saying the word is copyrighted though am I?
I’m saying Blizz nicked the idea. Which they did. Whether that’s good, bad, or barely interesting, who cares?
Make sure you stretch before you reach that far lol. Might as well claim that both games stole the idea from Fable, or whatever game came before that.
WoW and other MMOs borrow from ancient myth and lore, so some styles and names will be similar.
I knew I saw this somewhere.
Very likely, as sylvan/sylvari/sylvar or any form that is similar has been around since the mid 16th century or so
The aesthetic of ravendreth is a carbon copy of sylvania from the WH fantasy universe. But it’s ok, I don’t mind.
No where near as much as WoW copied from EQ when it was launched with hardly anything that was original.
It also has a strong Ravenloft (Dungeons and Dragons, early 80’s) vibe
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If anything i would imagine the inspiration for both was the Castlevania series.
Yeah, or, like vampire mythos in general?
Honestly this thread with people like “oooooh they stole this from insert game from the ninties” read a book! You’ll see that pretty much every single fantasy video game got the things they present from well established and known stories and lore that came before them.
These gothic castles, these corpses of decay, fairies, sylvan beings, elves, dwarves, orcs, these are not the unique and original idea of games workshop or sonyEQ by a long stretch. They’re simply amongst those who took the steps to make serious “games” involving these figures and built upon the lore behind these tropes a bit. That does not give them the authority to call “rights” on these things.
As said, plagiarism relates to their character ideas specifically, not the origins of which their character was made from as they have absolutely no claim over that, it’s “common knowledge”.
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The whole Gothic thing harks back to the Gothic horror novels written in the 18th century.
All modern fantasy was inspired by one man, Tolkein.
Not all…people forget Conan the barbarian fantasy,it inspired some of the stuff in Warhammer and D&D.
I would argue that the real inspiration for everything fantasy like came from human history and folklore culture.
That would be impossible, considering the warhammer universe predates castlevania series by about 30 years, and the vampire counts of sylvania were one of the first armies introduced.
Unlikely since the Castlevania series came around 1986 and the art from the box.