[Suggestion] Color Blind Filters

[Masasume]

This is a very important topic to me. I feel that as MMO's target all sorts of gamers a color blind mode is a must as many gamers are in fact color blind in some way or another. My wife suffers from one of the forms of color blindness and it makes it hard for her to see anything that is in a shade of red. Many people think that color blindness just means they see the colors as another color or as gray/black/white but in reality it can be a bit more severe. My wife for example can't see many shades of red at all. So when enemies names are in red, quest circles on the map are redish, and enemy area of effect attack indicators on the ground are red she has a hard time seeing them.

Now as an example, World of Warcraft has two ways to deal with color blind players. One is a color blind mode which changes some icons to letters/words. The other way it does is with shaders that add a color overlay over the screen based on the different forms of color blindness. (Continued)

[Masasume]

These shaders are turned on and off with a macro. My wife used one when she played that made everything have a shade of yellow which to me made everything look weird but to her greens went from gray to actually green and reds became orange instead of being invisible.

Just to give another example of how annoying color blindness can be to players my wife and I once walked into a movie theater where the lighting was a dim red. To me I could see fine but she immediately complained that the theater was pitch black. She couldn't see the light at all. At the same time the red break lights on cars are painfully bright to her.

So again please add some kind of help for the many color blind players out there. It would be greatly appreciated by many in the community and make playing the game much easier (or possible) for them.

[Masasume]

At the VERY least please add a way to change the colors of the UI (including enemy area of effect ground markers) so that color blind players can customize these types of things.

[ruskie]

I agree that color blind shaders and modes should be in games by default. I don't have color blindness but still I certainly support this.

[Encor]

First post, hello all.

I support this message.

[Dhalmel]

I think this a great idea, but OP you should post this in the proper channels at the User Interface board, this thread isn't well controversial so it's likely sadly to get buried under the crap threads.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/655

[Masasume]

I think this a great idea, but OP you should post this in the proper channels at the User Interface board, this thread isn't well controversial so it's likely sadly to get buried under the crap threads.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/655

Sadly you're right, and many people wont comment on it even if they support it. It's a very hard message to get to the devs...

[Zobi]

I'm not color blind, but I do know a few people who are. I support this and hope the devs will implement this soon

[vpc]

I completely support this, but I think a more realistic thing to look forward to OP will be addons. I am sure there will be one to change the UI and whatnot to help out those affected. Unfortunately, it will be awhile before addons are available :/

[Xayoc]

This one believes this to be an important issue to many in game. However, it would like to point out, there is a way to change the colors in the UI, as it is fully customizable.