Game pad vs Keyboard

[Fensfield]

Gamepad for my part; I'm not sure I could get by using mouse and keyboard but I really enjoy the interface (slow response times aside) with the pad, and think I'd like to keep using it even if they vastly improve the keyboard+mouse UI. Mine's some Speedlink PS3/PC wireless thing. For the longest time I was actually using one of the game's official controllers, they're pretty good in terms of usability.. but it seems they have some sort of defect in the sticks, and gradually need you to raise calibration higher and higher over time until it's a choice between the character/camera moving around randomly of having calibrate set so high as to make control sluggish.

Speaking of, I hope we get a look at 2.0's promised 'separate UI for gamepads' soon. I'm beginning to get an unpleasant (though likely unfounded - I mean, isn't gamepad control supposed to be more popular among Japanese PC MMO players?) feeling that it's becoming a case of PC users get the new keyboard and/or mouse UI and the gamepad one'll just be for (or delayed until) the console release.

Also: O to confirm forever!