GrimCo
Hero
Skimmed trough topic, so some points might already be said. This is all from perspective of someone who doesn't do online play with complete strangers.
I don't think that games can truly die since it's high probability that from 8 bilion people on Earth, there are few people still playing any given rpg, no matter how obscure. So, there is alive in very technical sense.
In practical sense, how alive game is relates to how hard it is to find people wiling to play it. While some game might have very vibrant online community, if i can't find group to play it in my town, it same as being dead. But if one can't even find online game, then it's truly dead, for all intents and purposes.
Other criteria is that it's near impossible to find material for game, even scans on high seas of internet.
Game i would call dead by my standards, is Window 1st edition. Most people never heard of it, even less people i know tried it, rules are hard to find online.
I don't think that games can truly die since it's high probability that from 8 bilion people on Earth, there are few people still playing any given rpg, no matter how obscure. So, there is alive in very technical sense.
In practical sense, how alive game is relates to how hard it is to find people wiling to play it. While some game might have very vibrant online community, if i can't find group to play it in my town, it same as being dead. But if one can't even find online game, then it's truly dead, for all intents and purposes.
Other criteria is that it's near impossible to find material for game, even scans on high seas of internet.
Game i would call dead by my standards, is Window 1st edition. Most people never heard of it, even less people i know tried it, rules are hard to find online.
