Live Letter LI: THE GAMEPAD FROM HORI IS FOR RIGHT-HANDED PEOPLE

[Leticro]

Typically you use gamepads with your mouse in the other hand. The live stream labeled it as "Left-handed Gaming Device from HORI." This means the gamepad is used with the left hand, which is made for right-handed people.

I'm just personally a bit salty as a lefty that has been searching for a gamepad made for the right hand for years (they don't really exist) and seeing everyone saying "but what about us right-handed people" when it's made for all you right-handed people.

(No offense of course because even all the lefties got excited when they saw "Left-handed", I just personally know this because I've been searching for gamepads for a long time)

[linay]

Typically you use gamepads with your mouse in the other hand. The live stream labeled it as "Left-handed Gaming Device from HORI." This means it's used with the left hand, but it's made for right-handed people.

I'm just personally a bit salty as a lefty that has been searching for a gamepad made for the right hand for years (they don't really exist) and seeing everyone saying "but what about us right-handed people" when it's made for all you right-handed people.

(No offense of course because even all the lefties got excited when they saw "Left-handed", I just personally know this because I've been searching for gamepads for a long time)

I don't understand what you're talking about.

[Kalise]

Are you sure it's made for right handed people?

Since, Hori do already sell pads for right handed people (I.e. That are used with the left hand, with the right hand using a mouse)

This, as yet unrelease, special FFXIV designed pad could be different and be actually designed for lefties (By being a pad used with the right hand, so the left hand is using the mouse) no?

[Leticro]

It shows during the live letter it's used in the left hand. The thumbstick is on the right side, just like any other gamepad.

[FFgame]

It's suppose to replace mouse, it is for left handed people.

[Leticro]

Gamepads for right-handed people are used in the left hand. Gamepads for left-handed people would go in the right hand, but no company actually makes those.

[Leticro]

Thumbstick is for movement usually, not for camera control. Gamepads don't usually replace the mouse but rather the keyboard.

[Leticro]

It's suppose to replace mouse, it is for left handed people.

I don't know anyone that would replace their mouse with a gamepad... imagine replacing your mouse with a gamepad and how that would feel.

If you still don't believe me on the proper use of a gamepad, here's a link to an article https://www.howtogeek.com/336754/pc-...amepads-a-try/

[FFgame]

You are not replacing the gamepad you are replacing mouse. Razor used to make Left handed Naga mouse but they either stopped or are hard to find.

[SaberMaxwell]

I don't know anyone that would replace their mouse with a gamepad... imagine replacing your mouse with a gamepad and how that would feel.

If you still don't believe me on the proper use of a gamepad, here's a link to an article https://www.howtogeek.com/336754/pc-...amepads-a-try/

I'm confused right now. That article is called "Give Left-Handed Gamepads a Try."

The author, calling them "left-handed gamepads" states in paragraph 6:

"Not so with left-handed gamepads. Almost all of the models on the market include a big, comfy rest for your palm, a carefully-selected cluster of the most commonly-used keys for gaming, and some even include a forward-angled thumb cluster similar to a vertical mouse. Having a separate device for your left hand also lets you move it out and away from the center of your desk (where the normal keyboard stays for most non-gaming activities), and stay more or less in the opposite spot to your mouse, which is much more natural for extended play times. (Obviously I’m not including those who use a mouse with their left hand—sorry, fellow southpaws.)"

"Left-handed gamepad" seems to be, paradoxically then, the name for a right-handed person's gamepad. If this is the case as supported by your own literature, wouldn't SE be right in calling it a left-handed gamepad?

EDIT: It just dawned on me what you said in your post. I hate left and right. lol

Calling them left-handed gamepads is a mistake XD