Hi Ari, Yeah, there is allot of reasons why accessible gaming will never catch up to mainstream gaming and the major reason is resources and money. Small time operations like GMA, BSC, and USA Games don't have millions to drop into research and development for a game with the kinds of things I have been reading about. Even if we did pay that getting that kind of money returned on a sale would be impossible unless there was a version for sighted gamers. As you so aptly pointed out many blind computer users haven't' heard of accessible games, and there is a group of them that simply do not care. There is allot of sighted computer users that don't play vidio games, but they seam not to stand out because the gaming market is so large. However, in our market they tend to get noticed, because they come off with an opinion that computers are for work not play. I have a friend who is like that. He uses is computer at home for work, and when approached for games he declined stating his computer was going to remain a work computer. I didn't push the issue, but I had the question in mind, "why can't the computer be both?? Why did it have to be work only?" There are also many non-disability reasons why some blind gamers don't get involved in games. I know some people who wouldn't mind playing Jim's Monopoly or other games, but won't touch SOD, GTC, Troopenum, etc on the grounds they are too violent. That is not an accessibility issue, but a religious or personal view on the nature of the games themselves. So any game created is not going to be necessarily adopted by every blind gamer or potential blind gamer.
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