Re: Is it possible to play fortnite as a blind?
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Game development can be a very complex and difficult affair. Its easy on the outside to fall towards pessimism without knowing the details and challenges that developers may face, but thinking that way isn't productive. There's a difference between not being a priority and not caring, and they've shown they care to a degree by adding deaf and color blind features already, but there are other factors at work here you should take into consideration.
Reports from inside the company [here] indicate that since fortnites boom in popularity, teams are under intense pressure and work gruelling hours making content to keep the game popular and engaging, which may make devoting resources to accessibility difficult. Another example of such a situation would be the tragically mismanaged Telltale games [here], I know many people here might have liked to have better accessibility for their games, and maybe thought they didn't care about accessibility at all either. But the reality was that they simply didn't have the time or means given the intense crunch to publish, not even to go back and fix bugs or implement quality of life features.
The fact is we won't know how they might respond until we ask, or if they can do it given the circumstances. If someone does ask and they blow them off with excuses or a lack of explanation and clearly don't care, then we'll justifiably start reaching for the pitchforks and torches. Until then however we shouldn't jump to conclusions.
If anyone wants to raise the issue with them though, it may be better to contact them publicly such as on forums rather than directly through email. It seems they've shifted over to discord and reddit, there's a bunch of links [here] to each.
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