Flash Player from Adobe Drives Money to Online Gaming Websites

It has been a while that i have been researching on the online gaming websites and the sources through which the sites make money and survive. Well, all that is happening around the web from the gaming websites is from the flash player from adobe. The flash player is the software which runs these games online on the browser. These sites are very much in demand due to increasing knowledge of online games. The online games run on the adobe flash player and thus giving out money or visitors with increasing numbers. There are certain websites on which i have played number of games which require flash player. Some of the games require the latest version of flash player and some run on any version, they are [link removed] and [link removed]. There are many sites but particularly for the keyword that i have researched these were the top results.

Here are the questions now.

1. The flash games are made on different version of the flash player but how are these games running on the updated flash player?

2. If the flash player is down for some strange reasons then how many sites get effected with poverty

3. What is the future of flash player? Is it something like high graphics that can be played on browser without using any graphics card?