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Plenty of FFXIV players get along just fine with official controller support, and a few WoW players already playing with controllers. (Let's ignore any mages using Kinect gestures for now...)

However, I wouldn't be surprised if there was some friction from existing WoW players, that might not be so patient with some of the new players jumping on with controllers. The atmosphere just isn't the same there.

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Ffxiv players get along fine because of the higher global cooldown and streamlined button press sequences, with very few procs that change what you have to press

1 sec GCD + proc fest wouldn't work well with the same control scheme, and the community would have a meltdown if they changed that

I always find it amusing just how conservative gamers are

Controller users benefit from lower cool down, more action sequence. In a basic controller set-up, you have access to 32 hotkeys, in addition to directional and camera movement (L/R analog). With some additional setup, you can get up to 64 hotkeys easily without too many compromises.

How many keyboard users can access that many from one hand?

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