Dear Blizzard...

[melredcap]

...players with photosensitive epilepsy or migraines could use some love.

N'kay, WoW-playing peeps, I have a thread on the community forums here: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/3424684942

I would really appreciate it if people took a moment to go comment on the thread, bump it up on the forum and generally agree that a video setting in World of Warcraft that cuts down on flashing special effects would be a Good Thing for Blizzard to work on. I have a friend/guildmate who is going to quit the game because she has epilepsy and virtually every heroic dungeon triggers her seizures. This will be a serious loss to her as a lot of her friends are in guild and it's really easy for her to keep in touch etc through in-game chat and Vent.

There's already a setting for colour-blind players! It's gotta be doable!

Comments

[norcumi.livejournal.com]

/salute

There are some scarily dumb people in the forums. Eep.

[dave-iii.livejournal.com]

There should be a setting to reduce effects for the processor's sake, one might assume this would help reduce the more flashy (sic) visuals the game presents.

But in any case, there's other ways of making an effect look cool than literally flashing lights.

To lazy to log in.

[(Anonymous)]

That Belf Paladin chick(presumably) is a douche/bitch/insert other foul word for someone here. And it sucks that your friend might be quitting over that. It's understandable. But it still sucks. This is hime_no_nishi again in anon.