Well, a Chromebook is really just a glorified tablet because most of them only run Android and apps from the Play Store. So installing the game app will work a lot better than trying to play the browser version.
I'm using some very precise definitions here. And these precise definitions
matter in some cases. Here, it doesn't, but only because the app in question (Elvenar) is set to not care. Whether or not the game is actually playable without a touchscreen interface remains to be seen, though.
A Chromebook
can be a tablet, but it may also be laptop or both (or both some of the time, in the case of a detachable keyboard).
The contention is that
the device in question is a laptop, not a tablet. A tablet, as I've said before, implies a set of features that simply is not present in that device. Simply calling all Chromebooks a "tablet" is an offense on par with calling all tablets a "smartphone". Sure, there may be some overlap in the device functionality, but calling one the other implies features that
are not guaranteed to be present.
If the game developers really wanted to be a pain, they could've just set text following "android:required" to "true" instead of "false" in their manifest file:
XML:
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.touchscreen" android:required="..."/>
Then the app wouldn't appear in the Play Store for any device that wasn't "tablet" enough.
EDIT: I wasn't perfectly precise with my use of the term "tablet" in my purchase suggestions post. This is my fault and should not have rushed the post. It also didn't help that interim research made the distinction far clearer to me and told me "well crap. Better go inform them of another possible hiccup before they actually buy the thing because holy hell even if it's cheap, I wouldn't want to burn 80USD at Wal-Mart for something that might not even work" [EDIT2] This whole thing was about whether or not the App would install or be usable at all, not whether they should go app or browser. [EDIT3] Well then. This was far too much work for something that probably shouldn't have been argued or researched, but dammit I wanted to be about as certain as one could be without actually testing using the device that it'd work. Because having assurances about being able to play is important.