They’re not obligated to fix a problem for me, a paying customer?

Then I won’t be a paying customer. Piracy is too easy for companies to NOT follow the wishes of their paying customer.

I’m really surprised at the number of hostile replies, but then I remember this is the internet. Reason fails, trolling reigns.

Guys, as someone who has worked on video games, I can tell you that switching those colors is as simple as clicking on a different color on a palette. “It would cost too much” is not a good excuse. It wouldn’t cost anything except the time it would take one employee to pick different colors. I’m guessing 15 minutes for the whole thing. Fuck, just get an intern to do it for free.

And honestly, they wouldn’t even HAVE to pick another color, they could just change the gray scale value slightly so the red and green aren’t sitting at almost the exact same value.

Just curiously, as personal opinion how difficult is it for you to differentiate between the four different colors in the picture?

As such, the larger numbers of affected users is probably correct.

You see, the above comment is what I have been trying to avoid having others on this trhead/comment section think I am saying -.0

No, I’m not Jay. I’m just saying that 2k games doesn’t have to do anything, and honestly, don’t understand why everyone is making such a big deal about an oversight.

Again, the product isn’t “broken”. It’s just harder for colorblind people to use the game. Sure, it isn’t as easy for them to use the game, and that really sucks. But I don’t get to patch food because I have an orlfactory disorder (can’t smell), nor do deaf people get to patch music because they can’t hear. In the case of the colorblind, they can still enjoy the product, in the same way I enjoy food- it isn’t as a satisfying experience, but it’s an experience. And they could enjoy the product. It just has a harder learning curve. It’s a bit like dyslexic people reading. There are tricks that dyslexic people can use in order to figure out what words are on the page. Yes, it takes them longer to figure it out, but they can still do it.

5 million copies of Bioshock 2 sold, correct? Right.

7-10% of males have some form of color blindness. However, those with severe color blindness is less. Let’s lowball it at 1%.

Let’s estimate (again, lowball number) that 60% of the people who bought Bioshock 2 are male.

So around 3 million guys bought Bioshock 2. Using our LOW estimate of 1% of males not being able to see this properly, our number (as someone above me earlier estimated) is about 30,000. Not a huge number when you started with 5 million.

But here’s the catch: Stop looking at it in numbers, look at it in PEOPLE. My high school had about 1000 students. That means there are 30 high schools worth of people who spent $60 on a game which they are struggling with. That is over a million dollars spent on products that are, in essence, broken.

How pissed off would you be if you knew that 1.8 million dollars were basically swindled off of people who bought a product they didn’t even know was going to have bits that were unplayable? Box is opened, item can’t be returned.

A patch for this game would be quick and easy, and wouldn’t even cost close to $2 million dollars to make.

You can see which color is which. (Fuck you wardrox for making color look like it’s spelled wrong. There’s no ‘u’ in color.) It would just take you a little bit longer time to do so. Is it a pain in the ass? Yeah. But I’ve played plenty of games where the colors make no damn sense. And maybe on the last one it would be difficult to differentiate between “hack” and “40 buyout”. But really, there isn’t a reason why I’d want to. Secondly, you don’t necessarily need the colors. Traffic lights are specifically designed the same way in every country so that color blind people will be able to know when to go or stop.

You can see which color is which. (Fuck you wardrox for making color look like it’s spelled wrong. There’s no ‘u’ in color.) It would just take you a little bit longer time to do so. Is it a pain in the ass? Yeah. But I’ve played plenty of games where the colors make no damn sense. And maybe on the last one it would be difficult to differentiate between “hack” and “40 buyout”. Secondly, you don’t necessarily need the colors. Traffic lights are specifically designed the same way in every country so that color blind people will be able to know when to go or stop.

Did you seriously say you wouldn’t have any problem solving these? I know I shouldn’t blatantly tell people that they can or can’t do things, but I don’t care. That’s utter bullshit. There’s no chance in hell that you could manage to get these without actually seeing which color is which, not to mention how hard it is even knowing the colors. Utter fucking bullshit.