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Originally Posted by nasser
IF games won't die out.. there's a thriving hobbyist community keeping them alive..
But achieving commercial success of the infocom era kind may be impossible..
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Well things are a lot different from when Infocom was around though too. The internet is a lot bigger than ARPANET was and computer tech. has increased quite a bit. It used to be you needed a physical publisher in order to get a book out for people to read. Now we have resources like Amazon and Smashwords to name just two and ebooks are everywhere. Not to mention the compact and lightweight reading devices (like Kindle) that are out there now. Whose to say that someone might not create a new game making company that specializes in text games. The equipment for making games is out there. All a person has to do is look for it. History does repeat itself though never exactly in the same exact way.