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

[Nora_of_Mira]

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

they should've called it a "Larboard-handed gaming device"

[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.

[Leticro]

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

Ah yeah Square Enix is not wrong, it was the interpretation of most people that was wrong. A lot of right-handed people are just missing out with this wording lol.

[Leticro]

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.

You don't replace the mouse, you replace the keyboard. I even have an article as support, but I mean you can if you really want. I don't pay your sub. It's not wrong if it's your preference or makes it easier for you.

And yeah I'm a 2014 Lefty Razor Naga user. Literally the only consumer MMO mouse that exists for lefties. I have issues with it every year but I always buy another to replace since no other lefty stuff exists.

[FFgame]

Left handed people use left hand on the mouse, which is to the left of the keyboard. How do you not know this.

[SaberMaxwell]

Left handed people use left hand on the mouse, which is to the left of the keyboard. How do you not know this.

It's clearly not a replacement for the mouse, but rather a more ergonomic assortment of keys to use in place of the way they're placed on a full keyboard.

[FFgame]

It's clearly not a replacement for the mouse, but rather a more ergonomic assortment of keys to use in place of the way they're placed on a full keyboard.

It clearly is a replacement for the mouse.

[SaberMaxwell]

It clearly is a replacement for the mouse.

It clearly is not a replacement for the mouse. The article has been provided and I even posted the image diagram from said article for you.

[Iscah]

Left handed people use left hand on the mouse, which is to the left of the keyboard. How do you not know this.

Not necessarily at all. It's one of those things where using your dominant hand would be more of an inconvenience than it's worth - you'd never be able to just sit down at another computer and use it without rearranging things and making space for the mouse on the "wrong" side of the desk. (And then there's the matter of having the left/right buttons reversed, which is really more inconvenience than its worth.)

I'm left-handed but use a mouse normally, and because of that I've actually got better fine control specifically of a mouse with my right hand. It's practice as much as anything.


Two other instances where reversing things for left-handlers isn't necessarily better:

My (also left-handed) sister plays guitar, and chose to learn it right-handed so she can pick up any guitar and play, instead of the strings being reversed.

And left-handed scissors - maybe if you could reliably use them anywhere they'd be better, but again, 99% of scissors you might randomly borrow are going to be right-handed. And again, you just learn to work with that motion - I actually can't use left-handed scissors on the rare occasion they're available. I hold them at the wrong angle and they block my view.


So basically, using left-handed implements comes down to availability. If they're symmetrical, it makes sense to use them left-handed. If assymetrical right-handed tools are far more common, by insisting on left-handed versions you're just inconveniencing yourself, unless the right-handed one is actually hard to use.

[FFgame]

You are replacing the mouse, not the keyboard. Watch the video again and see how he holds it.