I'm not familiar with how its interface is set up, whether it is keyboard focused or is more like their previous game Diablo 2. However in either case it is most likely not possible without sighted assistance.

I know what you mean, there are a couple mainstream MMOs I think would be fun to play. World of Warcraft isn't one of them however.

If Sony put some work into one of their MMOs Everquest 2 then it could be very accessible. It is already heavily keyboard focused as I understand it, it just requires audio feedback adding and some help for us in the menus.

True, my sister plays it. However it still doesn't really gve any audio feedback. I found that even with my sister's assistance I couldn't really handle Everquest 2 since there are just too many obstacles etc, either that or we needed to work on our communication but oversteering was an issue.

Accessible WoW would be like totally awesome, and like whacked at the same time, because the whole gaming interface/plot requires graphics if you know what I mean. If it was made accessible but not on the internet well the program would be like 4 gigs, wowowowowowowowowow messed up lol.

I think he's trying to say that accessible WOW would be awesome, but very large in terms of file size.

Good point there CX2. I hope I got your name right.

Hmmmm, shows what happens when I'm not able to turn up and post, interesting topics rise up to confound me.

My brother, and almost all of my friends are fairly major Wow players. I've also watched my brother playing the game, and noticed the lack of environmental sounds, though as you say some of the imotes are funny.

As  has already been said, the sounds in Wow aren't exactly enspiring, ----- though many of the imotes are most entertaining. However given some of the things my friends tell me about raiding, even if a vaguely accessible interface could be created, the time it would take to react to things, ------ even with the fastest players might be difficult, sinse classes like mage and rogue have almost beat em up style combos of attacks, and usually require fairly extensive working out of damage per second averages, which would probably be harder with speech (by the time the interface told you how much damage you'd done or taken, the situation would have changed).

then of course, there are raids.

I do think though, a true accessible real time online rpg would be a major step forward in accessible gaming, sinse this has been something available to sited gamers for about ten years or so. It'd also be great to have an environment where visually impared and sited players could cooperate, or do pvp, oor explore, just as happens in the text rpgs like Sryth, but obviously in real time (most wow players I know even communicate over skype during the game).

while we all know the general problems of talking to main stream companies about accessibility, perhaps it'd stil be worth a try talking to Blizard, especially if something formal Like the Game accessibility project could be involved. there is always the offchance that they'd be reasonable (a small chance I know, but probably stil worth a gamble).

so, good luck with everquest Soundmud, and please keep us posted.

Dam! back to the drawing board then.

I've not seen the game personally, though I know a couple of people who play it, but is Starcraft modable? I only ask because I've heard of a lot of people tinkering around with the game code.

while I know Starcraft isn't exactly like wow, it stil might be worth playing for reasons of participation and so on.

Starcraft is basically a sci fi version of the old Warcraft strategy games, so this would be under things like sound RTs I think.

As to Everquest 2 try www.eq2interface.com, it is most certainly moddable though to what extent I've no idea.