Siu Lun

Playing games is such a hassle now a days, when you buy it from the retailers you always have to put the disc into the disc drive to play it. On a console it’s ok, but on a PC it just makes life so hard . I play a lot of games, hence I’ve got a lot of discs my room is a mess as it is, I’d like to stack my games in a box and just leave it in a cupboard, that’s why I find disc image making program so good to use.

Disk space is relatively cheap and for me it’s great to just adjust a few things in software rather than trying to find the disc I left at the bottom of around 300 games. Why can’t developers understand this point? By increasing security on their games, to me, they’re telling me that they’re obviously not gamers themselves and judging from quality of gameplay that games have today compared to the quality of gameplay 10 years ago, I’d say I actually enjoy playing games much more 10 years ago and so that really reinforces my point that today’s developers, publishers and designers, whoever put the security on are too narrow-viewed and not responding to what the market wants and hence from this I conclude that they’re not really worth the money I paid.

But back to the topic, I completely understand one of the major push on security on games is for elminating pirates, but here is a view from another way of life:

I’m a website developer and designer, the website is for an educational institute, now then, my target audience is anyone who wish to learn, whether they’re disabled or not should not hinder the way anyone can gain information from the website but as a website I need to push hard on promoting everything about the institute and therefore visual effects is a great way to push it towards the people who have no sight disability. Unfortunately today’s internet technology is weak and increasing visual effects usually becomes a trade off to people who uses screen readers, but that does not change the fact that I do cater for everyone therefore I have to find ways around it.

I’m not sure if people can see it in my point of view, the point here is I’m basically saying, security should be increased not at the expense of usability of the media. The only difference between the two ideas that I’ve presented is that I’m by law obliged to make a site that does not discriminate, perhaps from the developers point of view it is a hassle because there will be more time needed to develop applications that balances usability and security but the thing is, the extra bit of money spent on developing may well be covered by the increased revenues due to a more accessible product.