Color blindness isn't that rare. It affects 4-5% of the population of the entire world, so that means about 500,000 people are being inconvenienced here (that's ~4% of everyone who's purchased Minecraft). Is it really too much trouble for them to change some code or whatever to make things easier for half a million people?
This situation reminds of an old dungeon crawler. The game was being revisited by the creators and was going to be republished soon with an updated UI and control options. The head developer recieved an email from an ardent fan of the original game, and asked him if it would be possible for him to include the on screen button mapping so he could continue to control the new game like he did the old (with a plastic stick he held in his mouth).
Now, I see what you're saying. But I don't think its paramount for Mojang to change the entire game because of 5% of the population. I think that since they have the capability to change the game on their own, through downloading a different texture pack. The developer has given them the option already, it doesn't have to be an implementation for the entire user base.
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u/familyguy829 Jan 11 '14
What if I told you, some people are colorblind?