OMGN Message Exchnge About Dominion's Fall

seoultrain - Dec. 12, 2014 at 2:13:50pm

Hey, I just found out about Dominion going under. Thanks to you, I could read Ross's going away note, since the site is completely down now. You're also the only post I saw about it besides a Utopia forum post.

So is that community completely gone now? That's sad. I played a few rounds every few years, and was feeling the itch again. I feel like this is the only link I have to this game now.

Did you play Dominion for long?

My response:

I played Dominion off and on since it first came out.  I do know that there was talk among some players about creating a clone of the game, but I don't know if that actually came to fruition.  If the clone idea never worked out, then the community is basically gone.  Its part of a trend in which text-based games are dying out with more and more gamers playing graphical games that with few exceptions such as GoodGame Empire just simply do not have the in-depth strategy of games like Dominion.  All too often, what you get in graphical games is not much more than eye candy.

As for the lack of coverage about the downfall of Dominion, that's a reflection of just how little text-based games matter to news editors and bloggers these days.