Re: Fortnite
I highly doubt it. This sounds like another fat game corperation who only care about money money money and that's it. I know this has been said and resaid so many times, but I think I have to just bring this up again. On the entire world, there are a few million people who have some kind of major eye impairment. Out of those, maybe a few hundred thousand have impairments that are impossible to treat with today's methods at least and that can't be corrected with glasses or lenzes. Further, out of those a significant number are able to work with and have access to computers and/or game consoles. Yet the international blind gaming community is only a few thousand strong at most. Many of those might be interested in a playable fortnight including me, but the total customer gains for the devs is going to only be a few hundred, a thousand tops. What, pray tell, do they care about a couple hundred new people playing their games? They wouldn't even break even with the costs of making the game accessible. Maybe if they'd tried from the beginning, it wouldn't have cost them much more. But they didn't, so now the costs of adding accessibility is going to be so large they simply won't bother. They can aford to simply leave those few hundred people in the dust, because they have millions and millions of gamers ready to sign up who they don't have to kater to with any kind of help or accessibility settings, in fact in the mainstream gaming industry they have to focus a lot more on things like pr and advertizing so they can proove their game sticks out of the crowd of fps games that are out there. I hate to be the party pooper here, but this story has been told, re-told and repeated so many times its hard to even laugh about anymore. You might get a polite "we care about your feedback", but I'm sure that's all you're gonna get from these companies if anything at all.
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