Gamer Petitions Infinity Ward for Color Blind Option in Modern Warfare 2

[ProfessorLayton]

This is an internet petition that might just actually work because it makes sense, something other internet petitions lack. I'm actually rooting for this guy. I mean, it wouldn't be hard at all. All you have to do is put it under a color filter, and it would just be an option that you could choose. This could be a new thing that games start doing, and it's definitely for the best.

 

[Sparrow]

A petition for something I agree with?

I'm going crazy. I must be.

 

[Rusman]

I don't even like the CoD series but I really hope they do this, I am red/green colour blind and even though it doesn't effect me in most games the one's that it does become a real pain in the ass to play.

Especially Hexic HD. It does have a colour blind option but that doesn't help when the bombs start coming.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Go ahead. I'd actually use it, even though I'm not colorblind. Just for a change of pace. Iirc, Quake 4 had a PINK crosshairs option.

 

[Twistur]

They could easily implement a feature with a sign next to the person's name when it shows up. Like a skull next to the enemy's name and a flower next to a friendly's
And then the enemy uses Cold-Blooded pro and it doesn't matter anymore.

 

[Iron Mal]

While I understand that the inability to tell the difference between two colours with ease may be a problem in some games (namely Team Fortress 2 and Halo where colour is the only thing that is used to determine which team you are on) I don't see how this applies in MW2 where you can tell who is on what team just by looking at them (the Militia and Task Force 141 do look somewhat different from one another, as do the Army Rangers and Russians (I can't spell Spetznaz).

 

[DanielPowell33]

Good for them, i hope something happens to help. If not, i guess there stuck playing Free for All.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

I wonder what the dude that's suing everyone and there mother has to say about this...

 

[Mcface]

Play hardcore mode. simple.

and you can tell the allies/hostiles apart by..you know.. actually LOOKING at what kind of camo/clothing they are wearing. It just proves the casual noobness COD has turned into, to where you dont even look at your targets anymore to see friend or foe, you just shoot when a name pops up.

you are color blind, not blind.

If everyone with some kind of problem had their own pettition it would be impossible to ever make games.

Dyslexic people are going to petition to have an option to change the format of the wording and handicap people will now want to play with their minds, and if IW doesn't comply, they are obviously discriminating. They shouldn't have to spend the time, money and resources going through and patching everything for a very small amount of people.

 

[asinann]

I have Red/Green color blindness but its not like we can distinguish between the 2. Its just tuff to see the difference in purple/blue and yellow/green. It totally sux balls when they make the indicators yellow and light green >.<

But this certainly a reasonable request. a tiny code patch to change the color isnt hard. But knowing how greedy IW has become its probably not "cost effective" to cater to 10% of the gamer populations. <.< (yes im a PC, and this is out of spite! XD)

There are varying degrees of color blindness too, I'm red/green and I have trouble seeing light colors against light colors (pink against white) and dark colors against dark (red against green) even though I can see any of those colors alone. Color blindness actually disqualifies a person from direct combat jobs in the U.S. military.
And it's roughly 50% of all males that have some form of color blindness ranging from slight (which is where you seem to be) to total (black and white vision.) But if you want a way to get around the base color schemes, wear blue tinted glasses. It changes the colors from things you can't see into shades of blues that you can see fine (unless you are blue/green, then I'd guess wear red tinted lenses.)

 

[latenightapplepie]

Signing. Thanks for the heads up!

 

[cobra_ky]

This is about as stupid as Assassin's Creed not having subtitles. Actually it's even dumber considering how easy it would be to fix. Seriously, how hard is it to have a deaf guy and colorblind guy playtest your game? Isn't that a lot better than alienating entire groups of potential customers?

Play hardcore mode. simple.

and you can tell the allies/hostiles apart by..you know.. actually LOOKING at what kind of camo/clothing they are wearing. It just proves the casual noobness COD has turned into, to where you dont even look at your targets anymore to see friend or foe, you just shoot when a name pops up.

you are color blind, not blind.

If everyone with some kind of problem had their own pettition it would be impossible to ever make games.

Dyslexic people are going to petition to have an option to change the format of the wording and handicap people will now want to play with their minds, and if IW doesn't comply, they are obviously discriminating. They shouldn't have to spend the time, money and resources going through and patching everything for a very small amount of people.

As far as I know, formatting text differently doesn't help dyslexics at all. And while there is an industry based on creating accessible controllers for the handicapped, actually implementing it would require a drastic amount of design changes. This, however, could easily be fixed with the next patch: as someone suggested, stick a skull in front of enemy names and a peace sign or whatever in front of friendlies. If such a simple fix would ensure more people will play and enjoy your game, i don't see why Infinity Ward wouldn't want to do it.

Also, there's a reason the color-coded name pops up in the first place. it's a hell of a lot harder to determine "friend or foe" by uniform alone. In some situations it's impossible, which is why friendly-fire incidents occur surprisingly often in actual combat situations.

 

[Dorian Cornelius Jasper]

grow up and chill out

Take this to heart, it sounds like you're getting really worked up over a really minor thing.

 

[Mcface]

This is about as stupid as Assassin's Creed not having subtitles. Actually it's even dumber considering how easy it would be to fix. Seriously, how hard is it to have a deaf guy and colorblind guy playtest your game? Isn't that a lot better than alienating entire groups of potential customers?

Play hardcore mode. simple.

and you can tell the allies/hostiles apart by..you know.. actually LOOKING at what kind of camo/clothing they are wearing. It just proves the casual noobness COD has turned into, to where you dont even look at your targets anymore to see friend or foe, you just shoot when a name pops up.

you are color blind, not blind.

If everyone with some kind of problem had their own pettition it would be impossible to ever make games.

Dyslexic people are going to petition to have an option to change the format of the wording and handicap people will now want to play with their minds, and if IW doesn't comply, they are obviously discriminating. They shouldn't have to spend the time, money and resources going through and patching everything for a very small amount of people.

As far as I know, formatting text differently doesn't help dyslexics at all. And while there is an industry based on creating accessible controllers for the handicapped, actually implementing it would require a drastic amount of design changes. This, however, could easily be fixed with the next patch: as someone suggested, stick a skull in front of enemy names and a peace sign or whatever in front of friendlies. If such a simple fix would ensure more people will play and enjoy your game, i don't see why Infinity Ward wouldn't want to do it.

Also, there's a reason the color-coded name pops up in the first place. it's a hell of a lot harder to determine "friend or foe" by uniform alone. In some situations it's impossible, which is why friendly-fire incidents occur surprisingly often in actual combat situations.

I don't want skulls and peace signs in my WAR game ffs.
I'd rather not feel like i am playing a game made for 14 year old emo kids.

Look at the god damn uniform they are wearing, and shoot them if they are not what your team wears. it. is. simple. And I plenty plenty of games where there are no names at all, and I do just fine.

Casual gamers need their hand held, I understand. but dont *****.

 

[Jzolr0708]

I'm red/green colour blind (as are 10% or so of men), so i think im entitled to say:

WHAT?!? you actually fucking care enough about a game to write in to the MAKERS to *****??

and so what if you can't tell friend from foe? shoot them both. it makes for a more fun game experience, and its a fucking GAME. they don't die. there is no harm done. grow up and chill out.

christ next there will be a petition to make so and so bullet proof or something. its a minor problem you can work around massively easily. i don't notice a problem playing games, the only reason i would raise a petition like that is for attention.

I highly doubt you are colorblind. You are being an insensitive jerk, to be honest. Maybe they'd like they're game experience to be normal? Most people aren't jerks, and thus do not WANT to shoot they're team mates, wasting ammo and making themselves look foolish.

It is FAR, FAR from being Bullet Proof, they are asking for 1 set of different colors for the tags or even symbols! It just puts them on level playing field with the rest of us.

They aren't "bitching", they just want a simple modification so they can go through the game regularly.

Oh, and exactly. It IS a game. So why is it so hard for them to make a simple change to the "game"?

 

[topsyturvy]

This is a rather simple patch IW can implement, no real need to ignore the petition unless they're lazy.

 

[cobra_ky]

This is about as stupid as Assassin's Creed not having subtitles. Actually it's even dumber considering how easy it would be to fix. Seriously, how hard is it to have a deaf guy and colorblind guy playtest your game? Isn't that a lot better than alienating entire groups of potential customers?

Play hardcore mode. simple.

and you can tell the allies/hostiles apart by..you know.. actually LOOKING at what kind of camo/clothing they are wearing. It just proves the casual noobness COD has turned into, to where you dont even look at your targets anymore to see friend or foe, you just shoot when a name pops up.

you are color blind, not blind.

If everyone with some kind of problem had their own pettition it would be impossible to ever make games.

Dyslexic people are going to petition to have an option to change the format of the wording and handicap people will now want to play with their minds, and if IW doesn't comply, they are obviously discriminating. They shouldn't have to spend the time, money and resources going through and patching everything for a very small amount of people.

As far as I know, formatting text differently doesn't help dyslexics at all. And while there is an industry based on creating accessible controllers for the handicapped, actually implementing it would require a drastic amount of design changes. This, however, could easily be fixed with the next patch: as someone suggested, stick a skull in front of enemy names and a peace sign or whatever in front of friendlies. If such a simple fix would ensure more people will play and enjoy your game, i don't see why Infinity Ward wouldn't want to do it.

Also, there's a reason the color-coded name pops up in the first place. it's a hell of a lot harder to determine "friend or foe" by uniform alone. In some situations it's impossible, which is why friendly-fire incidents occur surprisingly often in actual combat situations.

I don't want skulls and peace signs in my WAR game ffs.
I'd rather not feel like i am playing a game made for 14 year old emo kids.

Look at the god damn uniform they are wearing, and shoot them if they are not what your team wears. it. is. simple. And I plenty plenty of games where there are no names at all, and I do just fine.

Casual gamers need their hand held, I understand. but dont *****.

Fine, make it a colorblind option that defaults to off. Whatever. Hell, put in an option to turn off the name displays so you can prove what a badass you are.

I honestly don't understand why this is worth getting so upset over, or why you're trying to classify this as a "hardcore vs. casual" issue when it clearly isn't.

 

[Spiner909]

Yes, it's good to see a MW2 petition for a good cause for once.