I just want a FF11 modern game.

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Oh look, see you did find the info

I looked up plenty of things beforehand. It's just that it takes a lot of getting used to when it doesn't work like other games due to being designed for a controller.

none of which looks too out or the ordinary outside a couple things

The problem is that while ESC cancels a menu like normal, it doesn't also... bring up said menu. Most games, FFXIV included, ESC toggles between opening and closing the menu.

I forget what made it hard to navigate, but it probably began with the movement keys not being WASD. Once I got into the menu (which was very difficult because you had to select using the keyboard and you couldn't click like in every other game), and managed to finally switch the controls, there was probably the issue of turning correctly, which is probably where I had to start using the arrow keys to help.

And that's where the map issues happened. Navigating into the menu repeatedly to remember where to navigate.

wasd also does work, I have been using it since 2005.

Oh, well from what I read online and found in the game, they created a setting to make it work better for keyboards but you have to enable it, and that's what I enabled. It was probably Compact Keyboard?

directional keys have been common for moving through menus since computers were computers

We'll have to agree to disagree then? Because I think that hasn't been much of a thing since MS-DOS, the earliest versions of windows, and many versions of Linux.