While I'm just as pesimistic in regards of the furture of RPGs, but I'm not totally bleek yet.
People had claimed the CRPG genre was dead when games such as Baldurs Gate hit the market and made the genre mainstream.
My hope is that someday in the future, a small adventours developer will create a lower budget CRPG which focus on the gameplay instead of the fluff.
But then again - I also hope to win millions in the lottery
