Sunday Q&As

  • MMOs in China
    Joystiq interviews Hoyt Ma of The9 talking about bringing the MMORPG World of Warcraft to the massive Chinese audience: "Korean-style games were dominating in China before WoW -- games with 2D graphics that require a lot of clicking like Diablo. WoW is one of the first western-style MMORPG games with 3D graphics, so there was that 2D mindset to overcome. But there were other barriers. WoW requires middle to high-end PC configurations, as well as a broadband Internet connection, and cost is a major barrier to Chinese gamers. Another issue was the perceived complexity with the interface input - Chinese gamers were used to the Korean games where you just click the mouse. However, during game testing, we discovered that newbies could pick up WoW within 5-10 minutes, so user friendliness was a very important consideration."
  • Red Cross
    Shacknews' Q&A with David Pratt of the Canadian Red Cross discusses the stink they are raising over the illegal use of the Red Cross logo in games. "Yeah, we're in touch with certainly the American Red Cross and others. Hoewver [sic], I want to emphasize this as strongly as possible, this involves people in the pdocution [sic] of toy kits, people in the medical profession, doctors and dentists who are appropriating the symbol for their own prupose [sic], people who repair computers who use the red cross as their symbol. There are literally countless examples. Any any given time within the Canadian Red Cross, we're dealing with over 100 cases. It doesn't involve just the games industry, it is cross-cutting, and even actually some governmental and non governmental organizations. "
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Neutrality
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Neutrality Feb 13, 2006, 00:32
Feb 13, 2006, 00:32
 
I think most of you are missing the point. It's not about how red cross wants to monopolize their symbol, it's about trying to keep the organization as neutral as possible.

I think it is perfectly logical for them to try and keep the symbol out of non-documentairy war movies, war games ect. And the two screenshots the guy links to, are exellent examples of why another symbol should be used. (Blue cross for instance). Since red cross obviously do not want to be associated with militia style gun wielding medics (I know it's a bit far fetched but you get the point).

I really don't see the huge problem with inventing some other symbol that would be nearly, perhaps not exactly, as recognisable as the red cross, for medpacks, medics ect.

Excuse my spelling I'm just a simple dane.

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