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“Caution light sensitivity” discussion
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My intention is not to suggest legal liability, but rather to seek professional courtesy towards accommodations to those at risk in the player base. I am hopeful that further steps are taken to avoid similar situations in the the future.
I do appreciate your inclusion of the terms of service as I think that should be clearly demonstrated in this conversation. My intention when creating this thread was not necessarily to pose legal blame/liability on the company, but simply to illicit some professional courtesy and copiability for the result of the character and animation they designed. In my opinion, it would be in poor taste for a company such as Kabam to fall back on the protections of their terms of service and make no further changes when it has been demonstrated that features in their product have the potential to cause harm. It may not be a legal requirement for them to do so, but would surely demonstrate loyalty to their player base as a whole to devote themselves to removing these features and avoid similar situations moving forward.
I use 2 iPhones and both have the flashing light pop up when changing pages. I’m not epileptic so the flashing light seen here is more of an annoyance, but I do have a couple family members who’ve suffered from epilepsy. So I’m gonna have to take many precautions when doing the Psycho Man challenges. Or skip them altogether.
Personally I think they should put an in-game warning in the champion encounter screen and ban him from arena matches and AW defense, until they give an option to avoid it...
So you can't really say that people with those conditions shouldn't be playing the game anyway since there wasn't any indication that such a character would be released.
To put it into perspective, around 1/3 of all seizures are actually photosensitive (not to question anyone's experience here). The majority are induced by stress and other factors. In order to determine if you're photosensitive, you need testing. That's something the game can't really provide.
Having a warning is definitely suitable, but there's no way to prevent it from happening again. Nor was it ever a game that was presented as trigger-free. It's grown over the years, and so have the effects. I don't think there's an easy solution to this, but it makes sense to have the option to turn them off. If possible. It might even be on our end, playing in full lighting, etc. As for it being the game's fault for adding him, no. They were doing their job.
While I do agree with some of the people who do not want strobe-esc animations to change for everybody, it is still not fair to have them not change and cause a part of the player base to suffer. The main idea we should gather from this is that a setting to control these kinds of lights should be implemented, but not mandated. We also cannot put the blame of playing this game on anyone here, or on kabam's end for not realising the problem soon enough. One major problem with this is when a character with these effects are on a path toward progression, a person affected with these problems would be unable to pass through. This puts them at a major disadvantage against a majority of the player base, hindering their chances at getting an equal opportunity at more rewards. The main idea we should gather here is that people who suggest keeping the lighting aren't wrong, yes they look cool but we shouldn't be too selfish either. If kabam changed psycho-mans Specials to ensure that any disturbances wouldn't be caused, of course some of us might get mad that it looks less cool. But what does coolness matter against a person's health in the end?
Also yes I realise I typed way to much to prove my point so TL;DR: Dont blame a player for asking for better accomodations, he's affected like a lot of the community and we have to sacrifice a little bit of show for a person's health
Would you support there being an option to reduce motion/visual settings? I believe that’s what you’re alluding to.
However, if it is a general problem with the game and Psychoman just happens to be the worst case then it seems like the game is the equivalent of "do not get on this ride if you are pregnant or prone to seizures".
"For those that say, removing it will affect their enjoyment of the game... you seemed to enjoy the game perfectly fine for 6 years without Psychoman's animations, why is it a problem now?"
If Kabam removed CGR from the game and refunded all the materials used to rank/level him, wouldn't people argue that would "affect" their enjoyment of the game? Why is that scenario any different than altering Psycho Man's animations, or removing them completely?
If I changed my zipper to a button fly, I don't lose the whole piece of clothing.
Changing Psycho Man's animations in a less aesthetically-valued way would ultimately impact one's enjoyment of using the character. We can infer that people value aesthetics when discussing animations of characters, hence why people are calling for changes to animations of the original champions. By altering Psycho Man's animations in a way that would result in the new animation being of lesser value, it would affect people negatively. Again, no one was worried about the aesthetic value of PM's animations before he was released, but now that he has been released and his animations aren't visually as great, it will have an impact on the player base.
Also changing the brightness and luminosity isn't an animation change. He will still move exactly the same. It just won't be as bright. Again there's a difference between toning down overly bright flashes, and removing or changing the entire animation.
Again, changing brightness and luminosity is an aesthetic change. Bright light and dim light have different aesthetic effects.