An open letter to Kabam
Venger77
Member Posts: 9 ★
Over the last few years I have attempted to get some feedback from you and each time it seems to fall upon deaf ears I have never once received a response
So now I am trying here in this public forum
There is a section of the community that kabam has not taken into account those with impairments
Such as myself I am legally blind & have been playing the game since it’s release
I feel with a bit of practice you can make it through any reasonable content
however there is some content that is impossible for individuals such as myself
not due to lack of skills but due to the impairment that one has
I’ve spoken to a few other legally blind players and have found out that we all have the same roadblock act six the champion boss
It’s not getting him down it’s actually the dash back mechanic required to defeat him
I will gladly put myself out there for those who wish to remain anonymous because not everyone wants the world to know that they have an impairment
Again I am more than willing to have a conversations with anyone from kabam I believe that no player should be punished due to their impairment…however that is what we have been experiencing with the champion boss
So on behalf of myself and the others that this situation affects I thank you for taking the time to read this letter and hope that we can turn a negative into a positive
Sincerely Venger77
So now I am trying here in this public forum
There is a section of the community that kabam has not taken into account those with impairments
Such as myself I am legally blind & have been playing the game since it’s release
I feel with a bit of practice you can make it through any reasonable content
however there is some content that is impossible for individuals such as myself
not due to lack of skills but due to the impairment that one has
I’ve spoken to a few other legally blind players and have found out that we all have the same roadblock act six the champion boss
It’s not getting him down it’s actually the dash back mechanic required to defeat him
I will gladly put myself out there for those who wish to remain anonymous because not everyone wants the world to know that they have an impairment
Again I am more than willing to have a conversations with anyone from kabam I believe that no player should be punished due to their impairment…however that is what we have been experiencing with the champion boss
So on behalf of myself and the others that this situation affects I thank you for taking the time to read this letter and hope that we can turn a negative into a positive
Sincerely Venger77
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(Is Venger77 your in-game name? If so, kudos to you! You are awesome!)
No special device
I play using an iPad Pro it gives me a decent enough size of a screen to be able to see
yes that is my in game name
In the mean time out of pure curiousity, what is it that makes the dash back mechanic harder for you? As opposed to a normal situation where you need to dex specials
To try and answer your question it all comes down to just a visual thing a lot of people that are legally blind have trouble judging distance this can affect things like real life and games also a lot of the champions flashing moves make it hard to see what he is doing not to mention the speed at which he moves I think is the best way to explain it
but to the main issue, what changes in your opinion do you think would help or clarify this situation? i think playing mcoc blind is incredible and that honestly takes more skill compared to us none impaired. but if you are able to play the game as normal as possible dexing and playing the game should be the same? so i guess my question is what part of this is difficult? and why isnt it possible like dexing other special attacks?
If you take a look just above your comment you will see I attempted to kind of cover that information earlier…. but you are awesome for wanting to learn more
it would be nice to have some sort of bar underneath bar to indicate to the player if they’re inside that box so they know if their dex will count against the boss
Maybe Kabam can make different difficulties for each act
Also, maybe an audio cue for each order he gives you (dash/block/hit)? Three different order 'pings', with a follow-up audio 'tell' would be something a visually-impaired person could follow; whilst presumably being similarly difficult to the visual cues the rest of us are relying on.
Amazing work getting so far with a severe visual impairment, my friend: kudos!
How precisely we would replicate the "fog of war' with audio cues that we currently have with visual cues would be a potentially very complex problem to solve. We can try to level the playing field for visually impaired players, but we can't make the supplemental cues easier for everyone, whether visually impaired or not, because that has the danger of trivializing content.
To put it by way of example, we can't have a "dex when you hear the ping" thing in the game, because that would be, for many attacks, unambiguously easier for everyone (except the deaf, presumably). If we added a "swoop" audio cue where someone would have to figure out and discern the precise moment in the audio cue to dex at, that would in a sense translate the visual search for a cue with an audio search for a cue, and not reduce the problem space arbitrarily.
And that seems to be very non-trivial to implement, especially globally.