• lurch@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    It can totally die out tho, if people stop using it, it will fade to nothingness, like a flash browser game.

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      9 months ago

      Flash games did not die out because people stopped playing them. The smart phone was created and this changed the entire landscape of small game development.

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            9 months ago

            It was atrocious compared to what we have now. But god fucking dammit I love those games. They mean more to me than a lot of AAA studios.

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          9 months ago

          If it had been killed without an adequate replacement (eg. mobile gaming) then people wouldn’t have let Flash die. There are open-source flash players.

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      9 months ago

      Flash games didnt die on their own, the technology was purposefully killed off via similar corporate requirements to maximize profits.

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        9 months ago

        It died because Safari for iPhone supported only open web standards. Flash was also the leading cause of crashes on the Mac because it was so poorly-written. It was also a huge security vulnerability and a leading vector for malware, and Adobe just straight up wasn’t able to get it running well on phones. Flash games were also designed with the assumption of a keyboard and mouse so many could never work right on touchscreen devices.

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          9 months ago

          There you go, lots of reasons care of this person here