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Re: I can't picking up arrows because of sparkalaphobia and epilepsy.

@Moongrave I'm dead serious here when I say this. If you truly have these issues then video games might be dangerous for you to play. You should stop for your own health.

As nearly all video games have flashes of light and many particle effects. And warnings to not play if you are prone to seizures. It's up to you to heed that warning.

An incident I'll never forget in life is a classmate having a grand mal seizure in class one day. If video games can trigger this in you, please stop playing for your own safety.

4 Replies

EA_Mako
Community Manager
4 years ago
Hey @Moongrave,

I did see this pop up in the Apex subreddit earlier, which did receive a developer reply as well, if you hadn't seen that.

That's been passed along to be discussed by the team, so thanks for the feedback and letting us know!
Moongrave
4 years ago
I'm glad I could convey the message and I'll just find ways to mitigate it. It is up to Respawn if they want to tackle this issue anyway, they don't own me anything but it was nice to get noticed.
Thank you.
Pure_Funk_Nugge
4 years ago
@Moongrave I see you chose to ignore my comment.

After researching more at Epilepsy.com you are putting yourself in danger playing video games with flashing lights. The comment that you force close and cradle yourself from playing video games should be enough to alert you to this fact.

But here you are, not only playing and putting your life in danger. But asking for the video game itself to change so you can continue to put your life in danger....

See where the problem is?
EA_Mako
Community Manager
4 years ago
Definitely appreciate that you're trying to look out for fellow players, @Pure_Funk_Nugget.

It does sound like Moongrave is acutely aware of their specific situation and how various effects affect them, so I don't think we need to delve into their personal situation further here.

Since we did get some direct confirmation from developers this is being discussed with the team, we'll leave that feedback here and close up this thread for now, thanks everyone.