Trying to incentivize it? Because not being able to use the majority of the items available in the game isn't incentive enough. :P

They're a bunch of *IT mooks and code monkeys with a storyteller and a few artists thrown in, not savvy corporate ambassadors of world spanning conglomerates. They may have access to an economist or two, but which employee or consultant is the global social scientist? Unless that happens to be some employee's random undergrad, I doubt they have one on tap.

Incompetent isn't the correct word, inexperienced would be.
And that's fine. They can learn... or sub to Omega Business People once they have enough ISK to PLEX.

--Gadget


*Said with all the respect for those in the industry. Thanks for doing what I don't enjoy.

I would like to ask a probably related question. It seems that not only the UI but also the space itself changed colors. Instead of a blueisch hue now all space and ships I saw in Lonetrek look slightly greenish.

13 1/2 years since the game's release. 13 1/2 years doing business globally in the gaming business does not allow them the benefit of the doubt due to "inexperience". They've never heard of making games friendly for colorblind individuals in 13 1/2 years? Have they never played any other mmo than their own in 13 1/2 years? Have they never talked to any other mmo developers other than themselves in 13 1/2 years? Have they never read a mmo gaming forum or website outside of their own in 13 1/2 years? Because that's the only way they've never ran into the fact colorblindness is an issue other mmo developers started caring about and developing tools for a long time ago.

I strongly suspect the UI alone helps wreck the game's retention rates.

Thanks for the link. It doesn't look like this anymore. As I said it has a greenish hue like verge vendor for example. Also my screen is not broken because in the small spaceship icons Caldari ships still have a blue beckground.

weird

maybe there was an incursion when you noticed it. i believe that may change ambient light. i havent seen an incursion in a while so maybe im just imaginaing it.

I imagine they are trying to incentivize people to Omega up,

I imagine they are trying to incentivize people to Omega up, the problem is they are new to the f2p game, and haven't taken all cases into account on certain incentives, like UI and various color based vision problems, for instance.

I hope they take it seriously, as it is the case that the devil is in the details.

That shows 3.5 million people just in the U.S. alone have color blindness. If they only did business in Iceland, then maybe they'd have the excuse "they didn't know". But they do business in multiple countries across the globe. To claim they don't know is to basically claim they're incompetent.

http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/c/color_blindness/stats-country.htm

Just under 4000 color-blind people in the whole country.
Not really a wonder they don't take them in to account when making decisions.

I doubt it's maliciousness, just a matter of awareness.

--Gadget