Jagex - With yet another disability awareness charity rolling in soon, maybe this time you can talk about what you're going to do to help disabled people play your game? There are still players being punished for using adaptive inputs, there are no colorblind options, and no resolution scaling.
There was an incident 5-6 months ago about a streamer who was sad to find out that he was banned from RuneScape because of his use of a Steam controller and Xbox pad. You can find that thread here. There have been several people who have also claimed to have been banned for using alternate inputs due to their disabilities. You can also use the search feature on reddit to find more. Examples can be found: here, here, here, and here.
I have tried to get Jagex's attention but had no luck. It seems like a real shame that Jagex claims to care about people with disabilities, but bans them without question whenever their accounts are detected. It's not only hypocritical, but insensitive to do nothing about it.
Maybe this year you can talk about any possible changes you can make?
Posted Aug 31, 2019, 6:07 PM UTC
People don’t realize how common colorblindness actually is. They might support jagex making changes if they realized it
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Quests and Dungeoneering use color a lot. Being able to tell at a glance whether a key is crimson triangle or green triangle would help a lot. Any puzzle that requires color. Imagine the Path of Glouphrie puzzles where purple disc is worth 18 red discs or whatever. A confusing combination of colors and numbers for a normal player.
Many of them are doable, because lately they've been labeling stuff better, but many other games have dedicated colorblind modes to help out.
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Well, this is more about usability than them beign doable, ofc players can use an external color picker programs to tell them the RGB value or something like that to complete content like quests if it's infrequent enough, but for things like DG I imagine it becomes really annoying for those players.
Every color puzzle ever had to use a guide. Feelsbadman
For a while, Dungeoneering keys didn't have the colour in their name.
There's a quest with a colour wheel. Several other puzzles in quests/dg also have colours. That occult floor book case comes to mind.
Lots of potions look identical with deuteranopia, making them hard to use in high risk pvm.
The three T85 glacor boots look similar on player models.
...Just to name a few.
With the occult floor book cases they at least also assigned different symbols to the books/bookcases in addition to colour so it seems that they at least put some thought in that puzzle. It's a bit odd that you don't see such things in the other parts of dungeoneering since they at least seem to be aware of it.
Couldn't you just keybind them?
Nope. I like clicking my inventory
I always wondered how colorblind people managed to play Tears of Guthix. I'm pretty sure it's unplayable to a lot of them.
Depends on the type of colorblindness, so long as they can make out either blue or green then they're solid, otherwise they out of luck. I've even checked to see if there's some other graphical tell to which color it is and there isn't anything. The streams are identical outwith the color which is a bit of a no-no for something without colorblind options.
Basically, the best tip I can give for any designers is to do everything in black and white first, if there's something that you know should able to be differentiated and it looks the same in black and white then change it. Like, for Tears, add sparkle particles to the good streams, that would go a long way in fixing the colorblind problems for that one thing.
Even normal people refused to play TOG.
I cannot read the red text in the text box
THIS. Checking in as a red-green colorblind person. I cant do that [[Crystal Puzzle]] at all. The colors are way too light for my colorblindness to pick them up. I have to get my wife to help me with it or skip it completely.
That's just the only example that comes to my mind right now, but there are many more.
I mean they changed rago ts colours!!!
What % of the population is colourbind?
8% of males.
Not only colorblind. What about people blind on one eye or them with really bad vision. It's hard to play RS with these disability's.