Hi Cara, Thanks, for saying what I would like to say but couldn't find the words for it. You are absolutely right that people like Dark are contributing to the very problem he is complaining about.
Its a classic catch 22 situation. Developers like myself aren't going to develop games specifically for Windows 7, Windows 8, etc because not enough blind users are using it yet to make doing so a good financial investment for my products. Sure, using SFML speech tags for SAPI voices would be cool, switching to XAudio2 instead of DirectSound would be better for a 5.1 surround sound environment, and using the Microsoft Speech Recognition for voice input would rock, but it doesn't matter if my customers can't use any of it because they aren't running a newer version of Windows with those features. The customers for their own part are adding to the problem by not upgrading, and waiting for the developers to make new games with features x, y, and z. Not going to happen until more users have the right software and hardware. Thus we have a catch 22 situation. I don't know what Dark and others like him think we developers should do. I certainly don't know what to do, because while I can write games for Windows 7 or Windows 8 with all the features I want, but marketing that product could be a problem if the majority of VI users have XP. Its already a minority market, and there is no need to lower the number of sales even further just because there are some features available in newer versions of Windows I personally can use but most of my customers can't. Cheers! On 9/11/13, Cara Quinn <caraqu...@caraquinn.com> wrote: > Dark, this is not Microsoft's fault. You're railing here,against capitalism > itself. -Which is fine btw, but remember you're a part of this system as > well. > > As for new and wonderous games for new OS'es, this is a self-fulfilling > prophecy! How can there be new games for OS'es which no one is willing to > use? How will developers make any money writing games which they know they > will never sell because people like yourself refuse to update to a new OS? > > Why would a small developer put themselves in that position deliberately? > This is simply unrealistic and unsympathetic to expect someone to do. How is > someone supposed to make a living? Are they just supposed to put themselves > out just so they can try to woo people to adopt a new OS and then sit back > and hope against hope that people will in fact like their game enough to > update their OS for it? > > What would you have developers do? > > thanks, > > Cara :) > --- > View my Online Portfolio at: > > http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn > > Follow me on Twitter! > > https://twitter.com/ModelCara --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
