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Disabled Fans Shut Out of Galaxies

Posted by Zonk on from the how-to-make-friends-and-influence-people dept.

Ant writes "Wired News' Game|Life reports on Nick Dupree, a disability rights activist and writer who is confined to a wheelchair with severely limited mobility. He used to use one thumb and an index finger to play MMORPG Star Wars: Galaxies. This limited mobility was more than adequate to play the game when it was a sandbox-style adventure, and he was a devotee of the game. With the New Game Enhancements, he is no longer able to play because of the reliance on keyboard/mouse combinations and the action-style combat." There really is nothing good to report on this game update.

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  1. fighter jets too... by rohan972 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The air force still hasn't made fighter jets that blind people with no arms or legs can operate...outrageous

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  2. Re:It's all well and good one way by The+Slashdotted · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If you don't believe that they are allowed to change their game then say so. If you believe that they are then sometimes those changes are going to affect players that they don't even know about.
    What?

    How about this:
    I own a smoothie stand. I offer a "discount club" with a membership fee of $60. You purchase a membership and take advantage of the savings.. One day I expand to nuts, which you have an allergy to. I plan to use nuts in my mixer.

    1.) Because I cannot reliablily sell you drinks that you won't die from, have I materilly changed my product, and breeched my contract?
    2.) If I have no legal obligation, would it be good PR for me to work out a solution or give you your $60?

  3. WSAD people by orangeacid · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I imagine the WSAD people you decide to curse are the ones who own your ass.

    I see no benefit to the arrow keys whatsoever... you lose control of over half the keyboard and have to move you hand to do certain actions.

    With WSAD, your little finger (the one with the least stretch) is directly over shift (for running), capslock (for run-lock), and ctrl (for crouch). Your thumb is directly over spacebar for jumping, you've got F for opening, Q and E for leaning, an effortless stretch to R for reload, maybe C for inventory if you like, or tab for a map or whatever, v for voice communication, T and Y for speak and teamspeak, all this with your hands spread out naturally rather than bunched up to the right (unless you're a leftie).

    I wouldn't 'fuck the 'WASD' key people' if I were you. They've got the right idea, even if their movement keys haven't got pretty, easy to follow arrows on them.

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