[dev1097] Newly Added Control Config.

[bungiefanNA]

Controller can control your character while you are typing, while keyboard locks you out of game controls while you are typing. Also, keyboards lock you out of inputting more commands once 3-4 buttons are held down at once (excepting Ctrl, Alt, Shift), while controllers can register every button being pressed at once. For those of us that don't touch-type either, keyboard is way too easy to hit the wrong button when it matters. I have to look at the keyboard to be very quick/accurate about what I'm typing, and I prefer not to play games with a text input device. My hands will wander off of WSAD and instead I'll find myself typing SXZC EDSF 2WQE etc. 10-key is all I can do touchtype.

Thus controller trumps keyboard for me, and I won't play games without a controller on a computer. I don't even know the FFXI controls without a controller.

I don't touchtype because I was always recruited for tech support in my typing classes, and thus couldn't do the assignments. I also prefer an alternative keyboard layout, which isn't so conducive to games, Dvorak. Trying to juggle that and learn the JP keyboard layout just makes me not bother when I'm already fast enough when looking at the keyboard to pass any test for getting a job that has a typing requirement. It's just horrible for reacting to games.

FFXI was originally made as a console game, and I play it mainly on a PS2, so controller is natural to me. The controller layout also makes intuitive sense to anyone that has played another 3D FF game.

Keyboards are for text input. The button layout and shape is horrible for games. Also, the tendancy for controls to be put on the left hand, when most people are right-handed, and so should be put on a NumPad, just makes it worse for me. I can only play Marathon/Descent with keyboard if I put almost all the controls on the 10Key and anything else I limit my left hand to the arrows and Home/End/Insert/Delete/PgUp/PgDn keys so I can't be misaligned. I'd much rather have a controller for the reasonable number of buttons and analog controls, and so I use an X45 Saitek stick for those games when possible.