Software giant Adobe has confirmed that it is finally killing its popular Shockwave platform. After April 9, Adobe Shockwave will be discontinued and the Shockwave player for Windows will no longer be available for download. This means, you have got less than a month to relish the childhood videos games of the 90s that were based on Shockwave. With the official announcement from Adobe, it is expected that third-party Shockwave players will also disappear soon. Having said that enterprises need not worry. “Companies with existing Enterprise licenses for Adobe Shockwave continue to receive support until the end of their current contracts,” said the company.
For those unaware, Adobe Shockwave is a browser-based multimedia platform for interactive applications and video games. The move to kill Shockwave comes after the company had discontinued Adobe Director in February 2017 followed by the retirement of Shockwave player for macOS next month.

The reason to discontinue Shockwave is quite simple. “As technologies evolve and the use of mobile devices has grown, interactive content has moved to platforms such as HTML5 Canvas and WebGL and usage of Shockwave has declined,” according to the company. Note that Adobe will also no longer accept ETLA and EULA agreements for Shockwave after April 9.

“Support for individual customers will end on April 9, 2019. Customers with EULA distribution licensing will continue to receive support until the end of their 1-year contract. Enterprise customers will continue to be supported until the end of their contracts in 2022,” clarified the company.

Most developers and content creators of Shockwave have migrated to other Adobe tools like Animate, Adobe XD, Dreamweaver and others as the end of life for Adobe Shockwave was something waiting to happen. Along with Shockwave, Adobe is also in the process of eliminating the Flash Player completely by 2020.

Source: gadgetsnow.com