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Understanding
The New Direction the Online Casino Industry is Taking
By Mark from onlinecasinolistings.net
November 2014
Everything changes over time, and the online casino
world is no exception. There are a number of big changes
that have been slowly starting up and are really starting
to cause a paradigm shift in the way these games are
played. We want to look at a few of the big changes
that have started to push through and how they are
expected to completely revolutionize the industry
as a whole.
The Online Casino Mobile Push And
HTML5
There have been mobile
casino sites for a long time. The games started
off in Java and moved over to the more versatile Macromedia
Flash platform, but they have peaked in a way because
of some of the limitations of Flash. The newest platform
is HTML5, and it allows game developers to build high-quality
games without using as many resources as Macromedia
Flash. The end result is that you can do more with HTML5.
On top of that, you can make HTML5 games that are available
for non-mobile platforms as well, so this cuts down
on some of the extra work that's done to make multiple
versions of the same games. With mobile casinos becoming
more popular because more people have smartphones, HTML5
is going to become the main platform of choice sooner
or later just because of the nature of competition between
the software companies.
The Focus on Quality Over Quantity
The software side of the online casino industry has
always been about competition and trying to gain an
advantage. Each individual software developer has always
tried to have selling points that made players and operators
want to play with them. For a long time, the main advantage
that these companies would try to get was in the quantity
department. By having more games than the other guys,
these companies were able to get an advantage. That's
no longer the case. The difference between 200 and 600
games isn't that big of a deal for the average player,
and this has caused the playing field to change in a
major way. Now software companies are fighting to have
the highest-quality titles available to show that they
can give players a better experience than the competition.
Along these lines, you're starting to see a lot more
use of innovative bonus features, 3D graphics and slots
that have a storyline instead of having each spin be
independent from each other.
Putting It All Together
Competition creates what's known as upward pressure,
and this means that things are constantly improving
because everyone is trying to innovate to get the upper
hand. Along these lines, you're going to start seeing
more and more of high-quality games, and many of those
are going to be produced through the HTML5 format. Chances
are that within five years, almost all new games will
be built using HTML5 to keep up with the leaders of
the industry who are already coming out with new titles
that are based on this particular software platform.
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