Health Warning for Epileptics! [re: Chapter 4]

Daed710

Saw this thread on the official SWG boards, and it seems like a very serious issue, so Im posting it here (in both current and refugee forums, as the entire community should be aware of this)

Apparently the new Chapter 4 particle effects for the Medics "Bacta Bomb" special are causing people to go into epileptic seizures.    Currently there is no way to turn off the particle effects unless you use a mod of some sort (which of course is against SOE's rules).

SOE needs to get on the ball and remove these lame, and apparently dangerous particle effects before somebody really gets hurt.    Warning on the box or not, this shouldnt be happening, and apparently wasnt a problem until Chapter 4 went live with the new Bacta Bomb effect.

This is no laughing matter, especially to the members of the community prone to epileptic seizures, so please, no trolling or heartless comments aimed at these poor folk experiencing this problem.

link to the thread http://soe.lithium.com/swg/board/message?board.id=swggpdiscussion&message.id=1275403

A few snippets from the thread...

by Ricaud...

"Tonight I was PvPing in Restuss with my posse for the first time since the patch today, when our medic threw a bacta bomb.  The next thing I knew, I was lying on the floor of my room, chair toppled, muscles paralysed in a cold sweat, shaking helplessly for five torturous minutes."  

by LK-TwoOneFive...

"Dont remember any warnings on the original galaxies box. Well my little nephew saw me excited about the new chapter so he wanted to watch and he also had a epileptic seizure. This is reduculous you couldve killed my little nepfew. Im canceling my accounts this weekend. "  

by MonkeySilo...

"I dont have epilepsy, but my young cousin does, and he too suffered a seizure, im glad he is alright. but i am QUITTING because this thing is too horid to risk on my cousin. i declare SOE make a option to remove particle affects, or i quit!    also on a side note, for people with epilepsy, it still scares the **edit** out of me everytime its fired"  

Ebil_Piwat

WOW, that really sucks...

Hopefully no one has any serious problems, and it can get resolved quickly.

Rekrul

This isn't a bug.

It's a long requested feature.


Now you can clearly see, that SOE listens.

Chessack

SOE has never cared about "accessibility", or assisting people with disabilities in playing their game, or anything like that. When the CU came out and they were told that colorblind folks could not tell the difference between one icon and another, they did nothing about it... zero... until the day the NGE went live. 6 months of colorblind folks not being able to figure out their icons, and SOE just ignored it. Then when the NGE hit test they were told that it was hard for people with physical disabilities to play, and they ignored that too.

SOE is a bunch of punks. They don't care who gets sick or injured from their product or who is or isn't able to play it. Just one more reason why I will never, ever, give them another dime.

C

Agricola1

CONSPIRACY THEORY ALERT, BULLCON4.

 

Ok now that's over my conspiracy theory is that SOE decided that SWG was gonna die one way or another last year. So they made the NGE in order to lose players, in the hope they could file for bankruptcy and made a huge profit!

Not convinced? Look at all of their other games, all turned to crap or massive failures from the start made worse. The only game that keeps SOE on life support is EQ, and they've tried their best to screw that up!

I believe that Smed was displeased as there are too many rabid fanbois still playing. Smed having grossly underestimated the figures for sheepish gamers that will play anything with Star Wars stamped on it ordered a new project. To purge the remaining 10,000 players left on SWG the DEVs came up with a plan to make it even worse for your health. Give them all epilepsy and hope they cancel their accounts, once EQ is properly dealt with SOE can file for bankruptcy and top managment get massive payoffs!

Think I'm crazy? Well tell me who do you think is the least sane,

1: The PRE-CU vet that believes SOE will open classic servers or and EMU will be fininshed sometime this decade.

2: The rabid fanbois that thinks the SWG playerbase is increasing everyday and some of the servers look healthy.

3: Or me the conspiracy theory nut that thinks SOE is running SWG into the ground to make a quick buck from this wreck.

Shayde

$OE.. we're not satisfied only crushing you emotionally, but we now work on doing it physically as well.

zoey121

Cheesecake i will dispute u on this one, they in fact had a soultion patched in a few months after the cu changed the (color adpation with the mobs) . Though the change angered alot of folks and folks seemed to be bugged that others were having a hard time with the color coded mobs, they added a number to the circle by the mob and with the number on the mob that helped determine if the mob was a "to go or no go hit".
 However the same outcry from our then handicap community did emerge again after NGE when so many folks could not play for all kinds of reasons, from the change to NGE itself to the game mechanics.
 So i will grant you by the time NGE came they did not consider their handicap community and many of those folks did move on.
 The sad part it is a simple fix of on/off effects , allowing folks that want it use it and those that do not off.
 But we can clearly tell the numbers of the development team has gone down and that is just not a priority with them at this point.

viadi

I've seen this on the forums, and logged in to have a look, but for some strange reason im unable to see the new effect but my wife can????