When you say "technical standpoint", do you mean the graphics? 'Cuz I think the accessibility provided by browser-based MMOs is the best feature: no download, n

When you say "technical standpoint", do you mean the graphics? 'Cuz I think the accessibility provided by browser-based MMOs is the best feature: no download, no install, available anywhere there's a browser. AFAIK there wasn't something like that available in 1996 and is the key technical differentiator that makes me so excited about the web as a games platform. I think if we're talking about the web as a serious games platform we have to widen the scope of the discussion from graphics/sounds and include both the network effects of online players and the true multimedia approach the games can have, especially when paired with social media. Here are some features web games can use because they run on the web platform that the authors don't have to write themselves: * Speech recognition * Peer-to-peer communication * WebVR * getUserMedia I agree, though, that not enough web games do any of this. The ones I've played keep trying to ape the old platform without using all the benefits of the new one.