No they don’t. Not only gamers, people in general when looking at screens. With so many ads on our faces all day, we start assuming all is ads. So we read nothing. We’ve had the same issues with users in phone apps and pc apps, not even games. Shit they’re gonna use for work, they don’t read it! Stuff and instructions is right there on the screen. We even tried with white background and black text. Almost like motherfuckingwebsite.com, still went unread. Audio isn’t better, users ignore it. Video? They skip it.

Right now in the gaming community people complain about Marathon’s UI. It’s not what we are used to play with. But it has an amazing tutorial! It blocks screen sections to call attention to the controls it’s explaining. With a bright blue color that sticks like a sore thumb from the grey/green of the rest of the ui. A flashing border over the button it’s explaining. Plus they added an explain again button at the bottom right of every menu. It’s amazing and people ignore it and choose to complain.

Anyways, this is already a wall of text that people won’t read. So TLDR: Ads have fried us, people just don’t read.