Gamepads over keyboards FAIL!

I find not needing 5 hands to completely use the keyboard and its poor layout in the game a plus for the gamepad.

Gamepad that works > keyboard with horrible shortcuts and layout.

There's a reason why nearly all mmo's are made for pc only, the controls.

That also means that 90% of mmo gamer's are pc players. How will this game attract people from other mmo's who are used to keyboard/mouse?

This is my greatest fear for the future success of this game, many will not even bother just because of the UI. This has been expresed greatly in every review made about the game, "It was not made for pc" can be read everywhere, well there goes 90% of your potential subsciptions. I hope i'm wrong.

SE pls create a PC UI for this game ;)

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Originally Posted by Irana

I find not needing 5 hands to completely use the keyboard and its poor layout in the game a plus for the gamepad.

Gamepad that works > keyboard with horrible shortcuts and layout.

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I've never felt overwhelmed by a keyboard in an MMO. In fact, most of the time playing FFXI I only used one hand, except when playing Redmage since I typed all of my spells out in text commands.

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Originally Posted by Irana

I find not needing 5 hands to completely use the keyboard and its poor layout in the game a plus for the gamepad.

Gamepad that works > keyboard with horrible shortcuts and layout.

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That is the whole point of my thread here is to get SE to allow us to customize our own controls and make a PC specific UI. This thread was never intended to persuade anyone to use a keyboard over a gamepad. If you like gamepads then use them but for those of us using keyboards, because that is what we are used to doing, we are screwed. The title I gave this thread "Gamepads over keyboards fail," is in reference to SEs focus on the UI. The game already works fine for gamepad users so we don't need any of you complaining like once SE changes the UI that controllers won't work anymore. This thread is for keyboard users, if you like to use a gamepad and have no problems with it, then move on, this thread is not for you. However I do believe that once they do fix the UI for keyboard users you will see its benefits.

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Originally Posted by Heaven

There's a reason why nearly all mmo's are made for pc only, the controls.

That also means that 90% of mmo gamer's are pc players. How will this game attract people from other mmo's who are used to keyboard/mouse?

This is my greatest fear for the future success of this game, many will not even bother just because of the UI. This has been expresed greatly in every review made about the game, "It was not made for pc" can be read everywhere, well there goes 90% of your potential subsciptions. I hope i'm wrong.

SE pls create a PC UI for this game ;)

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That sounds like a fair resume of the situation.

I do think that selling a PS3 version will send a positive signal and would cause people to recast their reviews which people will then read. The objective here is to meet the points raised in those reviews. And to like, read them?