Petition asks for colorblind options in Modern Warfare 2

When I saw this article he was the first that I thought of.

Honestly this shouldn't even be a topic. There are monitors and televisions with colorblind settings.

The cost of mandating colorblind options (which is a possible solution) would either trickle down and be spread across the entirety of the consumer base OR eat into the profits of already struggling studios. While it would be great to be altruistic and include everyone, it isn't feasible and this would be the dumbest way of going about it. If a person is colorblind, he (or in very rare cases 'she') should invest in a more complete solution, such as a monitor that has color translation settings for the particular colorblindness they have.

Kudos to the companies that offer this feature anyhow. It is a great advertising tool and maybe there should be something they can put on their box if they include these kind of features.

i have never seen a colorblind monitor or television, and it probably still wouldn't help as everyones different. Some people can't see any color, others are blue/yellow deficient. most are red/green but even then some people can't see any red/green, and others, like myself, can only see pure red and green.

when i started MW2 online i was constantly getting killed because i couldn't tell who people were. Sometimes i'd run right out into someones killstreak because i couldn't tell the color. This isn't the only game i've had trouble with. GTA4 gives me a lot of trouble in free mode when were all different colors. a lot of the time i'll shoot at my friend who's green when i think he's brown. or i'll shoot at a blue person thinking he's purple.

And this would not cost a lot of money or time to fix what-so-ever. It's simply a change in the color highlighting in multiplayer. Blue is already used for people in a party showing that 2 different text highlights are possible. They should simply add a colorblind option that makes everyone some shade of blue.

Only hard work would be recoloring the killstreaks as those always show up as green. And even then, at 25x25 pixel images, not that hard. anyone who knows their way around photoshop could do it.

The whole thing is maybe a days work, if that.

Just use the infinite ammo glitch and shoot at anybody you see, teammates and enemies alike, without fear of running out of bullets. See: it's not a bug, it's a feature!

Hopefully, after the colorblind test there won't be exorcist (linda blair) that will appear on your screen or maybe a wacked mw2 ghost soldier! ahh, just enjoying the mw2 ammo bug for today, hopefully it will last: http://bit.ly/modern-warfare-another-cool-bug

1 in 4 Canadian men are colourblind! I hope all games will help us out.

@Crockett: Why is it so high in canada? I think the "standard" figure is about 1 in 10, although that might be for a specific type (like specifically red/green or something); can't remember where I saw it (probably wikipedia knowing me lol). I'm not colour blind myself, but MW2 (and every other game for that matter) should take the effort to accomodate the colour blind (as said, it really isn't that hard. All you need is a menu option to turn it on and maybe some tweaks to some graphics here and there). Actually, why do the consoles themselves not have a global colourblindness option? surelly if that were implimented, then all games could automatically use their respective cb settings (like you choose that you have red/green cb, and the game auto-switches to r/g mode).

What are you annoying morons trying to achieve with these irrelevant posts?

You're an insult to the name Tristan.

The name "Tristan" is an insult to anyone named Tristan.

I happen to like my name, Wagner be damned.

I think you're colorblind :(
I keep imagining you replying to this comment with "PSYCHE!" though hahaha

Of course he's joking. Otherwise he wouldn't know that he's supposed to be seeing numbers. And the tiny numbers on the right could just be reference numbers.

No oprimea, you must be colorblind; otherwise you'd clearly see all the naked ladies.

what do you want us to do?

Un-colorblind him obviously.

UNCOLORBLINDUS!

Colorblindness can infact be cured by injecting chilli powder (wizard magic), into the cornea.

That one is the hardest to see, as far as I know I'm not colorblind and it's still really faint.

wait... what?

Also, I had problems reading the 6.

Same here, I'm pretty sure that's normal...

Can you see the other numbers at all?

I would assume you're color blind. I can see every number just fine. Well, some are more obvious than others, but I can see all of them.

I can see all of them easily as well. Maybe you have a very slight case of colorblindness? Is that even a thing?

If I focus real hard and watch from very close I can discern some of them like the 56 and the 8, but the 6 really is invisible. Reading the wikipedia right now to find out what it is.

Well I just looked up a colorblind test online and for some of the pictures it said that colorblind people should see nothing and color normal should see a faint image. So I think seeing something faintly is fine so long as you see it at all.

Also, it says that certain monitors may cause more difficulty in seeing some of them so if you really want to know, you should go in to a vision center for a test.

Apparently I may have mild dichromacy, probably the deuteranopia type. Bummer.

I'm in the same boat, Finito. Can't see any of them clearly except the upper left.

But my wife would say it's how I dress myself that proves my colorblindness.

sympathies, i can only see the upper left number.
settings for colour blindness wouldn't take a lot of QC, if any, there are only a limited number of colour blindnesses, and by far the most common is when reds/greens skew to an orangey hue. It would be so easy to have an option to change the colour of: crosshairs, enemies, friendlies in the options screen, and no QC would be needed. CoD does give me a little trouble, and i definitely can't play on hardcore, i just team kill everyone accidentally with my twitchy trigger finger =p

i can only see the 25 and the 56, so i know how you feel.
i've been colorblind my whole life.

my most recent colorblind gaming experience was with Kurulin Fusion. lousy genetics. -_-

I can only see the 25. If you go to an optometrist they do these kinds of tests.

dude me too!! well i can't tell the difference between the Green pegs and the Orange ones. My gf and roommate both went nuts when i told them, then my gf actually told me that guys are more susceptible to being color blind then females. oh well

LOL I'm the same way, and I didn't even know there was a color blind mode until a while after I had it on XBLA (I actually only found the mode when I got it on my iPhone. I'd often have to ask my wife where the purple peg was or spend a long time hunting for it.

MW2 doesn't really bother me, but the one FPS that gets me is Battlefield. The blue and red dots are really hard to discern, and unlike MW2, it has friendly fire. After playing for a few days, I get used to it, but it takes a while.

Dang so that looks normal to you? Do color blind people see everything as red or as green I wonder. As green is my favorite color it would be a bummer if it was a red world.

"Do color blind people see everything as red or as green I wonder."

I used to date a girl in college who's dad was color blind. He told me that he saw red and greens as a grayish sort of color with a bit of a tint to them.

It's not so much that I don't see red or green, but that the are harder to differentiate. For example that picture, if it's supposed to be red, but it's green, or visa versa, I might not notice. But show me a card and say "What color is this?" I'll get it right 99.99% of the time. It also is tricky finding a red ball in a field of green ones, so that is why it's useful in Peggle. And one again there is the time delay, as it take me a bit longer that normal to tell you wether it's red or green, and in an FPS that matters a lot.

A lot of games have subtitles for all the spoken dialogue, doesn't that count as helping the hearing impaired?

It sure does! But not all games have that feature.