My two cents of latest developments

[Chivas]

"Our game did cause Wide-Scale Epilepsy Failures when tested"

Yes thats UBI's fault....not.

[Feuerfalke]

You'd better spend your 2 cents for a quick search on facts.

[Rotanno]

Ubisoft is to blame to enforce their epilepsy program that is not required by law anywhere in the world to solve a problem that really does not exist in any meaningful numbers.
Epilepsy is naturally a terrible disease but only about 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy and most of these are very aware of their state and realize the dangers of playing games. So to use these measures to protect this tiny minority who choose to disregard all warnings can only be described as a publicity stunt.

"Our game did cause Wide-Scale Epilepsy Failures when tested"
And this has not been a problem for many years until ubisoft suddenly decided to made it such.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by Rotanno

"Our game did cause Wide-Scale Epilepsy Failures when tested"
And this has not been a problem for many years until ubisoft suddenly decided to made it such.

I think you'll find it has been a problem for many years, but the developers finally can test for the problem and decided they could do something about it. It's called being socially responsible.

Does this make the impact on the game in regards to frame rate drop not suck? No but it makes the reason for it and the measures that they have taken understandable.

I expect this sort of issue will become quite common in the near future as software companies realise their liability.

Just think, once the hardware companies like ATI and NVidia realise they too are partially responsible (for suppling the hardware that can trigger seizures) they may need to do this pixel by pixel comparison in hardware? At least it will be a global solution and possibly quicker. But think of the visual effects on games!

Cheers!

[Wolf_Rider]

ill considered is the fact it is the timing of the flashes which cause the siezures.

[Meusli]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

I think you'll find it has been a problem for many years, but the developers finally can test for the problem and decided they could do something about it. It's called being socially responsible.

Does this make the impact on the game in regards to frame rate drop not suck? No but it makes the reason for it and the measures that they have taken understandable.

I expect this sort of issue will become quite common in the near future as software companies realise their liability.

Just think, once the hardware companies like ATI and NVidia realise they too are partially responsible (for suppling the hardware that can trigger seizures) they may need to do this pixel by pixel comparison in hardware? At least it will be a global solution and possibly quicker. But think of the visual effects on games!

Cheers!

This +1

We all know it sucks, but it is necessary.

[DayGlow]

Originally Posted by Meusli

This +1

We all know it sucks, but it is necessary.

So should all penut products be banned for the greater good?

[major_setback]

The reason Luthier gave for implementing the filter was not to prevent people from having seizures, but to stop people suing them.
So how do you best do that? That is the question to address, as it is the one posed by the creators.

I say :-
1) Post a great big warning on the opening screen.
2) Have the filter in place and active regardelss of the warning.
3) Put a disable option in the config file.

[Asheshouse]

Originally Posted by major_setback

The reason Luthier gave for implementing the filter was not to prevent people from having seizures, but to stop people suing them.
So how do you best do that? That is the question to address, as it is the one posed by the creators.

I say :-
1) Post a great big warning on the opening screen.
2) Have the filter in place and active regardelss of the warning.
3) Put a disable option in the config file.

Very sensible approach.

In the real world we cannot, and probably should not, remove all risks from life.
All that can reasonably be expected is that risks are identified and either removed, reduced or managed.
It is not practical to remove or reduce all risks.

If the implication of removing the epilepsy risk completely is that game performance is greatly reduced for all then it is surely more sensible to manage the risk in the way suggested.

[Oldschool61]

Originally Posted by Meusli

This +1

We all know it sucks, but it is necessary.

No its NOT necessary. Games have been around for years and people have been dealing with them fine. If someone has a problem with epileptic seazures then dont play video games DUH is that so hard to figure out. How many IL2 players are epileptic?? I have never heard of one problem.