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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4841047" data-attributes="member: 65637">I feel the need to point out that MMORPGs evolved from the desire to play a tabletop game online.  Those ancient (Sorry!) MUDs came from D&D players who loved their computers, and wanted to put both together.  Ultima Online, one of the premere and most famous MMORPGs that was made - and still continues, shockingly enough - was created by Garriott in an attempt to make the feel of tabletop gaming more idespread and universal amongst non-D&D gamers.Video games come from D&D.  Just about every RPG, be it from the US, Europe, or Japan, has D&D somewhere in its roots - and most non-RPGs do as well.  From D&D came the dungeon crawl, which begat Wizardry, which begat Dragon Quest, which begat every jRPG in existance.  From D&D came Ultima, which begat ID Software, which begat Doom, which begat the entire FPS genre.  From D&D came the MUD, which begat Everquest, which begat - you guessed it - World of Warcraft.  In fact, Wizardry and Ultima all but created the entire RPG genre, from all over the world - and Ultima went on to do even more to inspire other developers to create games.  All because Garriott went to a computer camp and played D&D.As technology increases, I don't think tabletop gaming will die - it will just change.  I already mentioned AR emerging and how that could change things, but look at what we have know that didn't previously exist thanks to the internet.  Online games done in chat rooms, play by posts in forums - this stuff seems ordinary and mundane, but they're things that aren't even 20 years old yet.</blockquote>

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