• 0 Posts
  • 85 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 6th, 2023

help-circle




  • The issue is that there is only 1 industry. And the end goal of ALL developers and companies is making money. The more the better. When other pools start seeing that pissong in the pool leaves them more money, than they ALL will start designing their games around this. It is this design choice that will infect pretty much all other games. The precedent it sets affects the whole industry.

    And like you said before, the only way this is not an issue is if it does not generate additional money for them so that no other pools try to imitate. And this will only happen if nobody buys them. And this post is trying to dissuade those buyers so that this does not become rampart and then all games have it.






  • Demand will never wane. It is human nature. It's like yelling really loud "stop being hungry humans!" (well kinda, hunger is not a good analogy but the opinion is that drugs are a fundamental flaw with our human design. Just asking to stop does not work. Also, jailing those who do doesn't help any either.

    The attack has to be financial. Outsell them. Legalize, tax and monitor. Make it a health concern not a law breaking issue. If it is no longer profitable to export, cartels will hurt and weaken and that is how this very powerful organizations are taken down. Take their money away.





  • Mate. Trusting a company not to shaft you when you have no alternatives is never a good idea. It is actually really bad.

    Companies do not act towards the benefit of the customer. It is always towards a better bottom line, and those decisions many times do not have your best interest at heart. If you have no choices, the companies have no incentive to make your experience any better. (see Internet Explorer). Competition is always a good thing. It forces companies to be better. The key word there is forces because they will not do it on their own.





  • So I used bings chat bot to summarize the article to the same length as the other bot and this is the result (you be the judge) :

    !Carlos Vasquez, also known as Rattlehead, is a professional gamer who relies on sound to play Mortal Kombat. Carlos, who is completely blind, started playing video games at the age of six in 1992. He was diagnosed with a type of glaucoma when he was 11, which slowly took away his sight. Carlos relies on hearing the specific sounds of the characters to make his attacking and defensive moves. He is able to pick up on the distinct sounds of the characters and use them to his advantage. Carlos found that most mainstream games were almost impossible to play without gaming accessibility features. Back in his 20s, Carlos was able to play some fighting games, and in particular Mortal Kombat, because he was able to pick up on the distinct sounds. For example, he recognised that the character who started on the right side of the screen would grunt at a slightly higher pitch than the one on the left. This allowed him to work out which character he was playing¹.

    Source: Conversation with Bing, 12/12/2023 (1) Blind Mortal Kombat Pro Explains How He Plays Using Sound - TheGamer. https://www.thegamer.com/mortal-kombat-11-rattlehead-blind-player-pro-accessibility/. (2) Best Gaming Headsets 2023: Wireless, Budget and More - Tom's Hardware. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-headsets,5499.html. (3) The 7 Best Gaming Headsets - Fall 2023: Reviews - RTINGS.com. https://www.rtings.com/headphones/reviews/best/by-usage/gaming.!<