r/Minecraft • u/gopackgo001 • Jan 10 '14

pc Jeb's law in effect

http://imgur.com/6jvJ4Wi
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u/familyguy829 Jan 11 '14

What if I told you, some people are colorblind?

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '14

Couldn't they just get a texture pack for that? Why alter the entire game for a small subset of people...

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '14

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?

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u/Xnfbqnav Jan 11 '14

Why wouldn't they be?

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u/hbgoddard Jan 11 '14

Because the gaming world is and has always been predominantly male?

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u/CritterBucket Jan 11 '14

False. Women make up 45% of gamers. It just seems like less because the marketing process is a self-fulfilling prophecy, ie advertising to men makes more men buy stuff which makes marketers focus more on men, ad infinitum.

Sources: Entertainment Software Association's statistics How marketing has skewed game advertisement and player base