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Because the web is the closest to a universal platform where as the existing operating systems are walled gardens?


How are Linux, Windows or even macOS walled gardens?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_platform

The average non-technical person isn't installing unsigned software on Mac or Windows, and the average person isn't using Linux at all so it's not worth considering in this conversation.

For all intents and purposes, approved windows applications and mac app store apps are what they get.


> The average non-technical person isn't installing unsigned software on Mac or Windows

False. The average non-technical person is installing unsigned software from Steam and other cross-platform game stores.

In fact, the vast majority of all PC/Mac users play games downloaded from Steam and similar stores, not from the Microsoft/Apple stores.

> the average person isn't using Linux at all so it's not worth considering in this conversation.

The average gamer isn’t using Mac at all either (4% vs. 1% according to Steam), so I guess it is "not worth considering in this conversation" either.

Which leaves us with Windows. So porting to the browser is irrelevant since all games are played in a single platform, according to your own logic.


"Nevertheless, my counter is: why does "the web" try to recreate existing technologies and operating systems?"

Was your exact statement so I'm not talking about just games and limiting it to them after the fact is disingenuous.




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