Talk:Job Classes/@comment-24.192.249.147-20151102022120/@comment-27557332-20160108031837

Video Games, MMO, or Pen-and-paper? There's already tons of pen-and-paper games that are actually much more detailed than this is. Early Intranet (yes, Intra... not Inter) games did adapt early D&D with nearly all of it's rules into computer game format.

The problem is that pen-and-paper games are slowly fading away. There's still alot of interest in them, but not enough to really support the kind of industry where it's widely available everywhere. (Sadly, if I had to compare Japan to the US... there's much more of a market there in modern times. A random person off the street there is much more likely to pick up a book or printed media of any kind.)

As for why those games were never turned into video games: Too much material. Pen-and-paper games are oftentimes so detailed that it would take way too much time and effort to adapt it all. (Fans have tried, as have big companies in the past. But every try by a major company has flopped in one way or another. At this point no company with enough money to actually do this wants to spend the money on it...)