Unity3d stops supporting Flash
The Unity team made a difficult decision to abandon Flash. As a result, the sale of licenses for this platform is stopped, support remains for 4.x.
The following reasons are indicated:
* Apparently, the transition of Thimault Imbert flash timlid to the development of the Web Platform is meant.
The following reasons are indicated:
- There is no certainty that Adobe will develop Flash. This is evidenced by the cancellation of the development of Flash Player Next , the instability of the latest builds, the transfer of Adobe employees from Flash Player to other projects. *
- The credibility of both the developers and the Unity team to Flash has been undermined due to the introduction, and after the cancellation of the revenue sharing model ( Stage3D + FastMemory ). From now on, the platform can no longer be considered reliable and constantly evolving.
- Developers are gradually moving away from Flash, while Unity Web Player has seen unprecedented growth in recent months.
* Apparently, the transition of Thimault Imbert flash timlid to the development of the Web Platform is meant.