Colour blinds are suffering @Riot

MysticFlameHaze·10/5/2016, 6:09:07 PM·3 votes·322 views

Hey riot, so i was talking to my friend and she mentioned that she is colour blind, so that made me remembered the board not to long ago about the guy asking for some change on the Lunar Caitlyn skin's traps because they were basically impossible to see.

so my friend tried the colourblind mode in the game and said it doesn't really change much at all, just the health bars. so i asked my friend to explain what she sees and she said she is yellow and blue colour blind meaning she cannot see yellows or blues, they just turn very dull and all look like green. It occurred to me that cause the game actually doesn't have a proper colour blind system that many of these players may be at a huge disadvantage in terms of clarity, and if they do not understand what is happening around them because everything is blending in together they will not be able to play properly. My friend told me this after a few games of playing matches together and she said so yeah "if you ever see me just standing there and not doing anything it's because i'm trying to figure out what's going on." After more thought i understand that there is SO MUCH BLUE IN THE GAME and the ground is green. so if yellow and blue colour blind people cannot see blue and it turns to green, you'd be having a random circle from anivia's ult blend in with the ground making that very unclear to them.

Hasn't one of your focuses always been clarity? If so i would please ask of you to actually go back to that setting in the game and work on it for players that are red and green colour blind and yellow and blue colour blind. The current setting does not do much and it currently is aimed towards red and green colour blinds. As it turns Green into yellow, therefore those who are yellow and blue colour blind actually see it go from Green to Red, and that's bad because then if they're aren't completely used to the game, their HP bars will match the enemy and they may easily read that champion and an ally and not attack them causing them to escape or make themselves die or an REAL ally to die.

Would it truly be that hard for you to create two colourblind modes in the game for players to choose from and actually have it change the games colours and not just the health bars? I'm very surprised this topic has never been brought up.

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