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author=Shinan
As for the future of the RPG I think that it's essentially a dying genre. Or at least the Western style RPG is (I haven't played a lot of Japanese style RPGs in years so I don't know how it's doing on that front). Though what I mean by dying is not that it is going away but that it is more and more integrated into other genres. So while the "purist" RPG is dying out there's RPG opportunities in loads of other genres. "RPG elements" find themselves in all genres these days. Even the EA Sports games have an RPG mode where you play as a single player throughout a career. And nearly every action shooter talk about leveling up but also sometimes about the freedom to explore and "roleplay". (Though often it falls flat into sandboxy games that do nothing)