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untog on Dec 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making Facebook's native mobile app faster using H...

I think that OnLive is a very bad example to use when talking about web gaming, because, well, it wasn't web gaming. It was an attempt to shoehorn gaming platforms onto the web- little surprise that it failed.

That said, web gaming right now isn't good. But if WebGL becomes popular then there's no reason for it not to become a perfectly usable platform.

andybak on Dec 17, 2012 [–]

Still quite happily playing Assasins Creed on my OnLive box here.

If the business model failed that isn't a point against the technology which worked very well.

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