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Edited by darkshard45:
10/18/2014 9:00:36 AM
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My Friend With A Disability Was Already Thinking of Quitting...
...and now we find out that the random teleport change at Atheon is actually going in.
He has Cerebral Palsy. Basically my friend has limited mobility on one side, plus his hand doesn't work very well. He's been a real trooper since day one since we only really had three of us from the beginning and he enjoys playing Destiny. The only time I've seen him really struggle is with the 3 times we've done VoG together. He has the beginning (opening the door) through the Templar fight down, but he doesn't have enough experience with the rest of it to consider himself an asset rather than a liability.
For Atheon we paired him up with someone outside to kill Supplicants and keep the portal up since it's easier for him to do that than to kill the Oracles in time to avoid a wipe (because he has slower reaction time). We never expected him to be able to do Hard mode VoG, but Normal was definitely (at least in my opinion) within his skill level.
Now with the random teleport change, there's basically no reason for him to ever do VoG again since [b]he'll feel responsible[/b] if the party wipes if he's teleported in. His self-confidence in the harder areas of Destiny was already low, and this is the final straw to break the camel's back...
Edit: because there are apparently a few people out there who aren't taking disabled gamers seriously.
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Edited by Giblet: 10/21/2014 5:21:12 PMBump, I'm not sure what to say other than just to bump this thread because it's already a community disliked change and Bungie does not care enough to take into account handicapped people who possibly there only way to really reach out to the world is through games. I used to play with a 70 year old Vietnam vet who had a voicebox (not sure what they are called). He was a classic story of someone who lived on practically nothing and was wheel chair bound along with his vocal chords simply not being there. If he was having a particularly rough night with his medical conditions then we would always give him an easy job in a raid. The important thing to note is that his way of reaching out to people and having human interaction was through online video games. At that age I'm not sure how he ever learned how to play them lol. Anyway, it was the bright spot in his day to be able to hop on a play with all of us. He was ornery and stubborn, but we always brushed it off in laughter. Here's the thing in all the raids in DDO you could give someone an easy job during every part. There was no part that there wasn't at least 1 somewhat easy task. With this raid change in Destiny its literally something I've never seen done. You are taking strategy and throwing it out the window. Would you please consider the fact that the community is vehemently opposed to this change, and that handicap people DO play video games. I guess I did have something to say after all.
