Playing an MMO with a controller

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This game is extremely well designed to support an amazing variety of interface options. That is one of the underappreciated gold stars of ffxiv. It is extremely flexible in control schemes and they are all completely viable.

There's also a vid of a solo heal sch t13 somewhere on a controller. Even healers can be played at the top level with controller.

Ffxiv has one of the most flexible interface systems of any mmo I've heard of.

I just gotta add to this and say, you can thank their insistence on making a PS3/PS4 version of FFXIV ARR for this. The PS3 is seldom paired with a keyboard, and so a well designed and workable control scheme for the DS3 controller was a mandatory inclusion on the feature list. We hear so much about PS3 limitations, but this is one area which we should all thank the PS3 for.

SE have done a superb job with the controls in this game. The UI looks almost identical on PC/PS4/PS3/Mac, with the exception that PS3 players are practically limited to the controller based interface. While all others can choose between them, and therefore have the conventional hotbar items in their HUD also.

Also, just to add grist to the mill, without the PS3 version, I dare say players with lower end PC hardware would be in a poor way as well since the game would not be quite so hardware friendly without the PS3 version.