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Discontinuation of Flash Player support

Adobe will stop Flash Player support in December 31st, 2020 and, besides that, they will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12th, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users to immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems.  

"How does it affect me?", you might be asking. In case get prompted with a block-page preventing you from logging-in, you can simply click in the big orange button to permanently switch to HTML 5 and continue playing Forge of Empires normally.

Besides that, in case you've seen the yellow banner in-game and came here by clicking this article's link, that means your browser does not support modern HTML5 features. Please consider upgrading or changing your browser now, in order to be able to continue enjoying Forge of Empires after December 31st, 2020. Below you can find the list of all browsers that does NOT support modern HTML5 features (your browser is likely one of them).

List of browser versions that are NOT able to run HTML5 client
Internet Explorer (all versions)
Edge (versions below 14)
Opera (versions below 15)
Google Chrome (versions below 27)
Mozilla Firefox (versions below 30) 
Safari (versions below 9)

Please keep in mind that 31st of December (2020) is the end-of-life date for Flash player, which means that Microsoft will remove the Flash support with a Windows update, and there will be no ways for you to download Flash anymore after this change, however, Forge of Empires will keep providing a Flash Client for those who are still able to play with it. Nevertheless, remember that Adobe will not issue new updates or security patches after the EOL date, therefore, we recommend that you uninstall Flash Player beforehand to avoid any further problems. Here's a manual uninstall instructions for Windows and Mac users.
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