Hi,
Petitioning is a good idea, but in the end whether or not accessibility gets
implemented boils down to revenue. There aren't enough blind players to
convince a company like Soni to invest time (including research hours) and
money into making a game fully accessible. This is one reason, I believe,
why the AG market is suffering so much as well. Do we have developers with
amazing potential? Certainly. Why don't they make games that rock the
market? Because there isn't enough return. Not to mention some small groups
(who we all know about) who take it upon themselves to say, "I don't think
it's worth buying, but I'll definitely crack it and play" hurting the market
even more. In the end, I think we don't realize, even half way, how much one
person cracking an audiogame and ripping the developer of $15-$30 hurts the
developer's finances. Making audiogames isn't free, and making mainstream
games isn't free either.
Munawar A. Bijani
"Knowledge is of two types: absorbed and heard. The heard knowledge is only
useful if it is absorbed." - Imam Ali Ibn Abu Talib, Nahj Al-Balagha
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----- Original Message -----
From: "shaun everiss" <shau...@xtra.co.nz>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the real game circle
except the departments you hit are the same as the ones for copywrite not
envolved in any of the decition making process.
in any case this thing needs to be of good will or something not forced.
if it is then it may just not happen or if it does prices will go through
the roof.
At 02:38 a.m. 16/08/2009, you wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone ever thought of calling companies like Sony and writing letters
to them and petitioning for the major video game companies to modify
their current games so they are accessible? put a visually impaired/blind
players mode in the games and a button to access it? And with today's
console arcitecture why not add text to speech built right into the
console? same with pc games, add an accessibility option or a downloadable
accessibility pack for the games. and since we got firefox and webvisum
brushthose captchas aside, subscribe to the sighted gamers forums and lets
make our voices heard and keep making them heard until we get what we
want, the quality of games played by our sighted friends.
Josh
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