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In my personal opinion SA:MP Roleplay overall isn't really "dying" rather being "reborn". NG-RP and LS-RP both undoubtedly used the godfather script however putting that aside, SA:MP Roleplay is being reborn. How many servers are being created and formed, all supposedly claiming to be unique and have better features than the opposition but yet all fail due to lack of players and lack of interest from the players who arrive. NG-RP, personally, is one of the causes of this lack of interest for the "original" Roleplay gamemode. NG-RP promotes DM, its players roleplay but it eventually ends with a huge shootout and so on and so forth and all those new players that arrive will join it, get a rough idea of what Roleplay is like and then leave having that same idea in their head about Roleplay, in a way I suppose it does put newbies of the "original" Roleplay gamemode's objective.

Roleplay iteself, as I stated in my last point isn't dying. New communities are arriving and those who had a stable, "not too big and not too small" playerbase are growing and with that comes new terms for the Roleplay gamemode. I've seen it for myself and i'm pretty sure most of you have too. Many communities now promote different ideas for Roleplay, they all have a similar viewpoint, "act as you would in reality" but each of them is modifying the rules as to what players on their server can do, for example, plant a bomb on the vault of the bank and then steal and start a shootout, being able to do a drive-by etc.

Concluding the whole point, unless communities start to promote more realistic rules and less of this whole shootout and various other Non-Roleplay related scenarios, Roleplay will soon be replaced by a much more modern view of Roleplay, it is most definitely a pity to see the original Roleplay gamemode to be replaced but their isn't much a single community can do, regardless of how many players it consists of.