drmike: Yes, because pirating a game first to see if it's accessible to a partially handicap user who then turns around and buys it if he can play it is a problem. And I have no right to do that. OK....
Very sad to hear of the condition, and you have all my sympathies.
I've met a gal once online who had limited funcionality of her hands and could effectively only use two fingers properly. She was heavily into adventure games, because that's the genre that usually posed the least difficulty for her playing. But her new game was 3D WASD controlled: Quite an obstacle. She did play the thing eventually, but the developers (RTG) chipped in with the promise to make their game more accessible with the next update (no idea if that ever happened, though).
The fan was buying those games, of course, at her own risk, though apparently only heavily discounted due to the evident risk of purchase. She still did, or at least she said so. I would have understood if she pirated games for testing purposes.
If she had bragged about pirating them, in a thread about "too positive" reviews, however, I would have clobbered her. :)
When you say "This is one of the reasons why I pirate first and then buy", your reasoning is not that some "irrational" review handed sweeping praise to a game because of its handicap accessibility when in fact it was not. Or is it?!?
Lifthrasil: I really couldn't find the problem the title refers to. I've looked through lots of reviews, but not a single of them has an irrational rating. All of them have ratings of 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5, all of which are perfectly rational (and even natural) numbers. No one rated any game with
Pi stars (or
e or
sqrt(2) )
Okay, I'm giving this one a plus. The thread needed this.
Telika: - Those who just started playing Jack Keane.
Jack Keane was great. :)
