Gaming discrimination
The gaming industry discriminates against me and my people!
Why do I say this? When I say 'my people' I mean in fact the people on the under side of planet earth, i.e. the residents of the southern hemisphere.
According to the world (well at least the top half) we don't really exist or even if we did, we don't matter. This makes me sad.
The reason i say the gaming industry discriminates against my people is basically that there isn't any support, servers etc for the bottom half of the planet.
If I want to play an online MMO I have to login to either a European or an American server. This sucks I would like a server let's say for AFRICA, South America and probably Australia / New Zealand, etc.
Contrary to popular belief we also do have access to technologies like internet access, running water and electricity.
In fact we aren't that different from the rest of you who live on the top of the planet. We play games (just like you), we have families (just like you), our politicians are corrupt (just like yours), our police are useless (just like yours) and we also have money (just like yours, maybe just not at the same exchange rate).
The other MAJOR issue I have is that you developers automatically assume that EVERY GAMER in the world has an always on internet connection... Therefore you only develop games that can be played in co-op or multi-player online. This is all good and fine to build community with your players, but you are forgetting one thing...
What happened to LAN (Local Area Connection) and the rest of the offline communities who support their favourite developers? We have been forgotten and left behind to fend for ourselves and fight for the table scraps of the gaming industry.
So now I would like to ask, why do you ignore us? Why can't we get a some awesome developers to actually come to our countries to exhibit their awesome products? This is not the only problem, more recently less and less games are being offered to our hemisphere.
If we were living in one country and were ruled by the Developer Empire and the Northern Nobility under the same flag and treated with the in-equality we are treated with today, wouldn't we have already started some sort of a rebel alliance against our oppressors? Wouldn't we have fought battles and died for what we believe in? Wouldn't we keep fighting until we are freed and treated as equals?
Equals who aren't judged and left out and forgotten because we live on the wrong side of the planet, but true equals who receive the same benefits and support that the rest of you take for granted. Equals who are granted early access to Beta regardless of where your address might be. Equals who get to play every game instead of being left out because we aren't part of the right demographic.
Rant over and out.
Originally Posted by HavocXphere
