>> Or maybe we're really on the verge of some new industry discoveries that could explode into gaming we couldn't imagine before, without this new world of diff

>> Or maybe we're really on the verge of some new industry discoveries that could explode into gaming we couldn't imagine before, without this new world of different gaming perspectives. You mean like what happenned to wargames back in the day, when D&D came out? Nobody makes or plays those anymore, far as I can tell (and from what I gather, the majority were solo-played anyway, which sounds a little sad). This might be a little morbid, but I often wonder what Gygax and Arneson, and the other people involved in early D&D, thought about the genre they had started up, as they went to their graves. "I left something worthwhile behind", or "Why are all those people messing up my game"?