Excellent write-up. r n r nI 've been on the no-genres/fads-only-gameplay mindset from the very beginning of my gaming years. Turns out its the only way to know what 's really happening in the industry anyways, instead of looking in from the outside with nostalgia tinged snobbism.
Fact 1: Marketing games in this flood of content is hard. r n r nFact 2: People are only willing to try new games if they don 't have to pay for them. r n r nResult: Selling points are offset to the game 's content. r n r nYou ...
Flash isn 't a web standard, it 's a closed-source, third-party plugin that 's widely installed but now in decline. ... r n r nThat 's funny, how is it in decline This statement is so erroneous, why add it to your article It only makes the whole thing weaker ...
HTML5 is a nice utopia for young and idealistic developers. I have a hard time believing that it will be as painless to develop for HTML5 and its plethora of browser platforms as it currently is to develop for the single platform that Flash offers.
This report is flawed as it doesn't seem to take into account the recent Facebook change that removed unauthenticated views from the DAUs, which have lowered by as much as 20 the DAUs of all big titles.
Wow you whiners should really look at the complaint before ranting against the evil of Zynga. This is definitely straight-up plagiarism. In fact, although they can't prove it, it even looks like they might have decompiled the Actionscript code and re-used it.
I can definitely second what's being reported here. There isn't much done to foster local endeavors, it's all about bringing in large foreign companies.
