How about a Gamer's Bill Of Rights

[Mr. Analog]

Just flipping through /. and came across this humorous post;
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=421120&cid=22077648

Article 1: The X-Axis and Y-Axis shall always be independently invertible. This inversion shall carry through into any minigames. Failure to do so earns the developers a punch in the balls.

Article 2: There shall be *copious* save points in RPGs always close to the player. Note: 45 minutes away across the Chasm Of Despair and on the other side of Mount Doom is not "close". Failure to do so earns the developers a punch in the balls, and another one 30 minutes later.

Article 3: Games should not be subject to bad voice acting. There's thousands of decent local and community actors across the land who'd probably love the experience of doing some voice work. Failure to do so earns the developers a punch in the balls. Developers who claim it was "intentionally bad" get second, harder punch.

Article 4: The industry is too advanced to still inflict bad camera angles on gamers. Developers who release a game with bad cameras face multiple ball punches from bad angles when they least expect it.

Article 5: Any game developers who think it's wonderfully dramatic to strip my FPS character of all his or her carefully rationed weapons and ammo in the middle of the game will face summary execution.

Article 6: If the player fails to get past a tricky part in 25 tries, give him the change a @%&#ing variable somewhere, would you? Is it THAT hard to adapt things to a player's skill? Make his bullets a little stronger for a while or something. Sheesh. Oh yeah, ball punches.

And so on.

[Melbosa]

LOL totally agree!

Another one I would add:

If playing split screen, you should have the option for either Horizontal or Vertical split.  Failure would be a punch from the left and kick from below to the balls. A friend can join in if he/she wants for double pounding!

[Mr. Analog]

LOL, good one!

[Mags]

Nice one. I would add: Publishers with the attitude release now, patch bugs later will have balls removed and then have them punched in front of them.

[Mr. Analog]

Nice one. I would add: Publishers with the attitude release now, patch bugs later will have balls removed and then have them punched in front of them.

That would kill Microsoft's entire business model!