Nice to see a thread with some gamepad support for a change. ^^;

I was previously using a logitech pad styled after the psx design. It started having real difficulty with the analogs and eventually the dpad stopped functioning altogether.

I switched to the official MS (360) controller and its worked beautifully since. I've not had any issues with the analogs going rogue or ever needing reconfiguring. Oddly enough, years ago when I used an official sony ps2 controller with FFXI (using an adapter) the controls needed regular reconfiguration else the analogs would suddenly go into spinning wildly.

I was a bit disappointed to find that there just aren't quality psx designed gamepads for pc anymore, as I really wanted to keep the familiar experiance of console play. However, the 360 controller for pc is really well built and worth the higher price if you go that route.

If you do, I highly suggest only purchasing the wired version. The wireless likes to sleep after just a brief moment of unuse and the game does not recognize it waking so you are forced to log out and restart the game. Same thing if you have to switch out batteries. You can buy a wired adaptor to prevent this, but why spend the extra money if you can purchase it wired from the get go.