The game has players because and only because it is 40k.

The exact same reason Star Wars fans still play Star Wars the Old Republic, or Tolkien fans still play Lord of the Rings Online. It is the only option out there.

If there was any alternative for people to get their 40k fix in a "MMO/shooter", this game would not have made it to launch.

Never in a million years are they going to attract generic shooter or MMO fans, the game is lacking and sub standard in so many areas, so they are fully reliant on 40k fans needing their fix.

Anyone who says 40k rips off SC is delusional.

So Protoss and Eldar are basically the same thing as Draenei/Eredar from Burning Crusade onward, if you swap being powered by crystals to being powered by divine and arcane magic and having a huge crystal fetish?

Also I think the aesthetic differences between Protoss and Eldar are not really subjective. I don't know how anyone could confuse how Eldar stuff looks for how Protoss stuff looks.

Both of those games you mentioned had little to no player base till they developed F2P options. All games with free sub options will have a large and long lasting community. There were tons of non WH40k Fans waiting for F2P orks in this game it just never happened.

I would also still play this game if it were exactly the same and had completely different graphics, Ip and everything else. I enjoy the load out features and Third person shooters are more enjoyable to first person shooters for some. I'm not looking for immersion in a pvp game I garner my enjoyment from killing 5 of you for every 1 of my spawns and rolling backwards to back attack the sob trying to backstab me. I am also eagerly awaiting 4 way battles. No reason to think it will not eventually happen. The release of this game was light years above the playability of the non founder testing models.

Until an alternative for 3rd person large scale squad shooter/melee/psychic comes out this is all we have regardless of IP. I have to wonder if anyone boohoo'ing the game can post a scoreboard showing them at the top in the 6-9 k point area of a match. Just my personal Curiosity...

I don't typically screenshot the scoreboard or even look at it much, but if the points value is equivalent to Requisition and XP gained, I have been above 6k on numerous occasions, and fairly often receive the Best Support commendation. At one point I even received the Most Melee Downs commendation as a Warlock.

Honestly Pouncey I wont be shocked when Blizzard reveals that WC and SC are the same universe just different time periods. I'm not even saying that has anything to do with Warhammer, just how the two compare. When it comes to Warhammer the most accepted answer is warhammer fantasy takes place on a Chaos world in wh40k universe as it is the only one that allows the two to coincide in the same universe.

I Dont play Chaos much right now working on Orks, This is my handle on Chaos if you see me feel free to say "Hello Asshat from the forums!"

I am Off to spread Fungus Amongus now that we can log into the character select thanks to the work around

While that's theoretically possible, it would be fairly... unusual.

It would require the Burning Legion to have never visited the Milky Way galaxy, as the Terrans, Protoss and Zerg would be a formidable threat to the Legion and valuable allies to the Naaru yet no one has ever made mention of them. The Burning Legion's mandate to destroy all planets would've been noticed had they ever visited the territory of Starcraft races.

It would also require the Light, which is a pretty universal thing in Warcraft that dates back to the universe's origins, to be a field of psionics that no Starcraft race ever explored, which doesn't seem possible given the humans in Starcraft are supposed to be futuristic real-life humans and certain religions in real life would've made excellent use of the Light were it to be a thing.

It would also require the Starcraft races to never have noticed that there is a sentient force (the goddess Elune) controlling all moons in the universe with the capacity to create eclipses upon demand and who also occasionally creates constellations of stars or galaxies out of nothingness as a monument to certain fallen heroes of Azeroth. The effects of creating a star or galaxy out of nothingness are such that it would have been noticed by those technologically and scientifically advanced spacefaring civilizations.

Then it would require either the Starcraft races to have never noticed that there are babies of planet-sized gods inside all planets in existence, or the Naaru to have never considered simply evacuating everyone they can to planets that don't have those god babies in them (which actually don't exist in Warcraft lore, as planets are essentially incubators for unborn gods) so that they can be safe from the Legion's wrath. The Legion would also have considered that a viable option, and long-distance teleportation is something they're quite good at.

Then it would require humans to have evolved separately on two different planets, and no, Azeroth's humans cannot be the result of a lost Terran colony, there is existing lore about humans being the descendants of Vrykul.

And if they simply exist in different time periods with Azeroth's humans turning into Starcraft's Terrans, that would require a huge gakload of Azeroth's other humanoid species to have gone extinct without leaving any sort of remains behind for Terran archaeologists to find and record or any Azerothian records to have survived. It would also require the Maelstrom to be completely repaired and the scars left by the Sundering AND the Shattering to have left no traces in the geological record. Given that we're dealing with a timeframe shorter than the length of time it would take for humans to evolve into a non-human species, this is an impossibility.

I agree with most of that. However the Xel naga could easily be remnants of the Titans as the fall of Sargeras and the fall of the Xel Naga Amon are similar enough. The Dranei let us in that the orcs came from another planet not another dimension and inter stellar travel is possible so not limited to one area of the universe. The Naaru could also be Xel naga in a different form as you saw Kerrigan ascend into a form of pure energy it is not out of question. I never inferred the people of azeroth ever became terrans. I am more looking at the ascended god like beings in the wc ip compared to the ones in sc ip. If you really want to get down to it Zerg Could be a degenerate form of the burning legions lesser beings, or simply a different generation. *Cough* Fel Hound *Cough* Zergling *cough* . The Void is a present concept in both IP as well.

We could also say blood elves got sick of it all and took off in the tempest keep to become the first Eldar ^-^

Enough warcrap and starcrap talk in MY 40K!