>>96513990
>Blizzard wanted to make a licensed game for Warhammer fantasy, but GW wouldn't give them the license. So they just made Warcraft.
This is correct.

>I mean, Starcraft and Warcraft are literally clones of Warhammer
This is nonsense.
Warcraft is only a clone of Warhammer in that it has orcs fighting humans. Warcraft 1 orcs resemble Warhammer orcs only in that they're green and brutish, so, killer points there. Warcraft 1 humans have a generic arthuriana fantasy look and catapults, for fuck's sake. Then they grew less similar with each subsequent iteration, with orcs becoming noblesavages and all that crap.
Meanwhile, the design of the Protoss faction alone has more creativity than the entire 40k canon.