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

[internetzealot1]

They should make this a DLC... and charge for it.

BWA HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!

 

[Treblaine]

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.

Well why don't they do what is done in real combat where friendly fire is a real concern.

I mean the reason uniforms in the 19th century were so colourful was to prevent soldiers hooting their own people most of the time, nowadays armies wear camouflage that makes it deliberately hard to discern actual shape and patterns and also almost universally brown or green. So if you have any chance of soldiers surviving means shooting first or just shoot at anything that moves.

Friendly fire is a HUGE problem in modern armed forces and it cannot be understated, and the most effective way of dealing with it is to meticulously control the battlespace, direct the fire of troops and constantly keep troops update on positions and make doubly sure that two fire-teams don't run into each other as all too likely the point men will kill each other on sight.

but that requires COOPERATION with a dedicated commander who all the players will follow, even in team death-matches is ridiculously rare and only seen in clans if at all.

A bit more on topic, colour-blind people are apparently quite sought after in some armed forces due to how they have learnt to discern shapes much better since they can't depend on colour, so they are more likely to spot an enemy who has camouflaged themselves to blend into the colour of the environment better.

 

[paketep]

So the dedicated, modding, mapping, etc petition wasn't for a good cause?. Are you fucking kidding me?.

My god, the stupidities one has to read sometimes... Guess the author is not a PC gamer and is more than happy with the POS that IW released.

 

[Wintermoot]

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.

in some missions (atleast in MW1) it means game over to kill someone but in multiplayer it doenst realy mather that much

 

[Andronicus]

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there is enjoying gameplay and then taking it too far. i would accept this argument from a military sim player like OFDR, where dying is a real problem, but you play CD6 to live fast and die quickly. why in gods name would you petition the makers to change it unless you really cared, to a creepy sort of level about how you did.

what? simply playing it isn't enough? your going to kick up a fuss and make excuses everytime your killed?? if it really bothers you change your fucking game.

I would have thought taking it too far would be to try to sue the pants off them for discrimation. What they are asking for here is a perfectly reasonable request made in civilised manner. Whether or not they'll actually do anything about it, regardless of simplicity, is another thing entirely, but signed nonetheless.

By the way, if campaigns like this bother you so much, find somewhere else to post your ramblings. Each time I load this page, it means I have to load your rubbish as well, and it wastes my broadband.

 

[Alex_P]

Wow. Someone writes a three-paragraph statement politely asking for a minor accessibility feature (truly minor -- something one of the team's junior engineers could code up and test in a day) that is already standard in many popular shooters, and in comes a brigade of people to whinge about how this is "whining" and "bitching" and rant about how everyone should grow up and never, ever ask a developer for any kind of gameplay enhancements.

Stay classy, you guys!

-- Alex

 

[Logan Westbrook]

Interesting fact of the day. Women cant go colour blind

Yes they can, it's just very rare.

What the fuck is up with all the hate against modders? Are you being sponsored by insanity ward? Ironically, if they hadn't spent so much effort locking down the game into a gimped and useless console version, then color blind people could just change the text color like they could in cod1, 2, 4 and 5. GG badmouthing FAIL.

That would be fine and dandy for the people playing on the PC, but what about people playing on the 360 and PS3, who make up the significant majority of MW2 players?

 

[zamble]

I'm not agains color blinded people in any way, I even wish they get some way to work this out, but I really want this to stop here... I mean, if industry start caring TOO MUCH about this (as they do, sometimes, to avoid being sued or something), in one year there will be no games with color differentiation of anything, nor color puzzles, nor "red key opens red door" anymore...
That'll be a loss to everyone

 

[Anarien]

I'm not agains color blinded people in any way, I even wish they get some way to work this out, but I really want this to stop here... I mean, if industry start caring TOO MUCH about this (as they do, sometimes, to avoid being sued or something), in one year there will be no games with color differentiation of anything, nor color puzzles, nor "red key opens red door" anymore...
That'll be a loss to everyone

This isn't a slippery slope. That's a ridiculous argument with no basis in reality.

I mentioned Peggle earlier. Here's an example. Their bonus pegs are green, so when you turn colorblind mode on (which is optional, like the MW2 option being requested), it places a symbol (I believe it's +, but I haven't played in a while) within the green ball so it can be distinguished from the rest.

 

[zamble]

I'm not agains color blinded people in any way, I even wish they get some way to work this out, but I really want this to stop here... I mean, if industry start caring TOO MUCH about this (as they do, sometimes, to avoid being sued or something), in one year there will be no games with color differentiation of anything, nor color puzzles, nor "red key opens red door" anymore...
That'll be a loss to everyone

This isn't a slippery slope. That's a ridiculous argument with no basis in reality.

I mentioned Peggle earlier. Here's an example. Their bonus pegs are green, so when you turn colorblind mode on (which is optional, like the MW2 option being requested), it places a symbol (I believe it's +, but I haven't played in a while) within the green ball so it can be distinguished from the rest.

Yup, not based in reality (as this didn't happen yet), just a wild guess. Let's hope you're right.

 

[Knight Templar]

I think thats a wondeful idea, and if they do implement a colour blind option then it's likely to improve the image of both IW and MewTwo. One could argue that this should have been in at launch, but it doesn't change the fact that the colour blind setting can only be good.

 

[Doug]

I'm not agains color blinded people in any way, I even wish they get some way to work this out, but I really want this to stop here... I mean, if industry start caring TOO MUCH about this (as they do, sometimes, to avoid being sued or something), in one year there will be no games with color differentiation of anything, nor color puzzles, nor "red key opens red door" anymore...
That'll be a loss to everyone

This isn't a slippery slope. That's a ridiculous argument with no basis in reality.

I mentioned Peggle earlier. Here's an example. Their bonus pegs are green, so when you turn colorblind mode on (which is optional, like the MW2 option being requested), it places a symbol (I believe it's +, but I haven't played in a while) within the green ball so it can be distinguished from the rest.

Add to that colour blind support has been around for years, although of course not for all games. I recall Alpha Centauri had an alternative colour set for the colour blind.

 

[Playbahnosh]

Huh, I bet color-blind people have a problem with games nowadays, with all that shadows-on-used-coffee-filter graphics and all. Gunmetal gray, dogshit brown and muzzle-flash. Hell, even I have a problem distinguishing things sometimes, and I'm not even color-blind (like, people from scenery). I just shoot everything that moves. Served me right in Dead Space, and CS:S. Yea, in multiplayer I TK sometimes, but who doesn't? I play for fun, and most of the people I play with do the same, so we have fun, instead of being Pr0.

Petitions...bah...

 

[Danny Ocean]

What the hell is wrong with you people!?

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.

When was the last time a game forced you into using colour blind mode, hmm?

It's just that that assumption seems to form the basis for your entire argument. IW making a teeny-tiny patch to cater for these people does not affect you in any way whatsoever.
Hell, if anything it incurs a positive externality upon you as those who couldn't play the game before now can, and so there will be more games to join.

But dont *****.

Get up out of your chair, go into your bathroom, and look into a mirror.


This attitude sickens me. Just because they're not the majority doesn't mean they're not important. You want to tell all the Medal Of Honour holders that they can't get their perks any more because some dick on a forum thinks they don't deserve them?

God. I don't know how old you are, but you really need to grow up and learn yourself some empathy.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I can put my cock on this

Yup, my good old John Hancock

(Signed. Number 1155)

 

[Archemetis]

From what I can assume It'd be something as simple to implement as a setting in the options menu.

"Are you colour blind? Well here, check this, there we go! ain't that better?"

I hope this goes through.
It never really occurred to me that something some simple as the colour of team names would have such an affect.

 

[Nanaki316]

Excellent idea, not really thought about this before but now that I do it's an option all games should have! Signed, really hope this petition gets noticed!