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So, There’s A Fan Campaign To Change The Ending Of Mass Effect 3
My opinion of internet petitions remains unchanged: They are worth the paper they are printed on. (Hint: They are not printed on paper.) They’re a manifestation of the distorted expectation — cultivated in grade school — that First Amendment rights extend to your relationship with a private business.
Petition For PC Dark Souls Actually Has Legs; Will Namco Listen?
“Internet petitions” rank right up there with “zillion dollar Xbox Live DLC” on my list of favourite subjects. We could spend all day writing about them, and they’re still worth the paper they are printed on*. That said, a drive to get Dark Souls ported to the PC has traction, thanks to a Namco Bandai representative’s comment to the community.
Quadriplegic Gamer Calls For Custom Button Remapping In Console Games
To many of us, custom button remapping in video games is a luxury, but for quadriplegic gamer Chuck Bittner, forced to control games with his mouth, it’s a necessity.
Colour-blind Petition For Modern Warfare 2 Patch
As Kotaku’s resident colour-blind gamer, I feel a duty to point out that some of my brethren have asked Infinity Ward to patch Modern Warfare 2 to remove the game’s red-green/enemy-teammate confusion.
Modern Warfare 2 Server Petition *Sigh* At 21,000 Sigs And Counting
Online petitions ain’t worth much to me – just once, I’d like to see someone with a clipboard outside a GameStop doing this in person. But on some topics they’re meaningful, like the Infinity Ward/dedicated server fiasco that broke yesterday.
StarCraft II LAN Petition Hits 100K
The petition to get offline network play added back in to Starcraft II has hit 100,000 signatures. Doesn’t mean Blizzard will shift away from funneling everyone into Battle.Net. But six figures is a credible number.
And The StarCraft II LAN Petitioning Commences
Angered by news that Blizzard has decided to leave LAN multiplayer out of StarCraft II, fans are doing what fans have done in such situations since the dawn of time – signing a letter.
Students Protest Call Of Duty Dog Killing
Students at the Academy of Notre Dame in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, are up in arms over Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War for promoting the killing of deadly attack dogs.
Diablo III Producer – ‘Colour Is Your Friend’
Yes, Diablo III is going to be much more vivid and vibrant than its predecessors, a fact that has some fans signing a petition against the shinier, happier art direction – now with over fifteen thousand signatures. Tracey John over at MTV Multiplayer spoke with Diablo III lead producer Keith Lee about the during the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris this past weekend, who defended the move towards a brighter, more colourful Diablo.
“One of the things that we considered when we were working on the visuals for ‘Diablo III’ is the fact that colour is your friend. We feel that colour actually helps to create a lot of highlights in the game so that there is contrast. A great analogy is like in ‘Lord of the Rings’ — not everything is dark. It allows you to see what a creepy dungeon can be like but if everything is dark it doesn’t allow you to have a lot of contrast.”
Lee also explains that they want players excited to enter and explore new areas, rather that simply provide the same dark environments over and over again.
Lee does admit that fan feedback is a major factor in how Blizzard develops titles. It’ll be interesting to see what impact – if any – the petition has on the development of the game.
‘Diablo III’ Producer Justifies Controversial Art Direction: ‘Colour Is Your Friend’ [MTV Multiplayer]
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