A reader wrote me because he is color blind, and in some MMOs that leads to problems. For example while in WoW the quest icons floating over the heads of quest givers have at least two different shapes, exclamation mark and question mark, in other games only the color of that icon changes. So if you are color blind, you have to click on all of them to see whose quest you alread finished, and who still has a new quest to give you.
Lots of other things in MMOs are color coded too: The relative difficulty for your level of a monster or quest, or item quality. So should MMOs have an option for a different grey-scale scheme that is better visible for the color blind? Or is that such a small part of the population that they can afford not to bother?
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