Re:The video game industry can't go on like this
by throwaway2048 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:30AM
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If mobile games were going to replace traditional games, they already would have, the cellphone market is already nearing replacement purchase rates.
Gaming is a huge market, there is room for lots of niches, and the quality of even a typical native indie game is way way above what a browser is capable of delivering.
Show me even one web game that is close to the quality of a mediocre graphics, reasonably expansive indie game
The web sucks horribly as a platform if you care about performance, which even relatively low power indie games do.
Re:The video game industry can't go on like this
by Freak_NL on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:11AM
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> for free. […] powered by ads, microtransactions and donations
So, not actually for free.
Re:The video game industry can't go on like this
by FrozenVoid on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:32AM
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In free-to-play model, you don't have to pay anything.
You can block ads, ignore microtranactions and don't donate anything, so its essentially free.
Its likely will look like self-contained web games, utilizing WebGL+WebAssembly and procedurally generated assets on the client side. It would be powered by ads, microtransactions and donations, without "sale" or "subscription" paradigm - just load the webpage and play.