So is webplayer dead then?

With the entries i’ve seen so far for LD34 there has only been 1 game using the unity webplayer. Now I understand that chrome has dropped support for it (hence why i changed to using firefox) but is it really at the point now that no-one is making games using the webplayer anymore? It was a brilliant system and completley removed all the hassle of having to download unity-made games. Even if it seems like no-one is going to play the games on webplayer is it really that difficult (if you made a game in unity) to upload a webplayer version as well as the donwload version just to make the game a little more accesible to people who use browsers aside from chrome? I also understand that in some cases it is being taken over by the webgl versions but in my experience they don’t work 90% of the time.

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14. Dec 2015 · 16:12 UTC
Every browser will entirely drop it soon. Better get used to living without NPAPI.
MikeTsunami
14. Dec 2015 · 16:16 UTC
Yeah it’s a shame. Had the same issue with my game. =/
LeftRight92
14. Dec 2015 · 16:16 UTC
Unity developers can still release a WebGL version (which we’ll be uploading)
14. Dec 2015 · 16:20 UTC
I think 5.3 is the last version of Unity to support the webplayer. So as long as you don’t upgrade from there, it will never die!!