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That is my guess too.

Honestly I would rather have it so that they use the face buttons as combos rather than restricting the L/R buttons. Those buttons will probably be ideal for targeting. You can just as well set A+B, X+Y, etc. combos. They won't display as nicely on a UI, but if you're playing a game for a hundred hours, you can memorize your bindings without a display. Certainly not the worst way they could go about it, but they're using most of the buttons for ability selection which leaves me to wonder how they're going to implement other important battle features.

Kinda reminds me of the controller setup for Tera. When I played Tera with a controller I thought to myself , why couldn't they just copy FFXI's controller setup? I hope they are going to have multiple options for this as I didn't care for the way Tera did it , and I'm so used to FFXI & FFXIV's controls.

Face buttons as modifiers would be awkward to hit though. I mean think about it.. how easy is it to hit triangle+X? Way less easy than it is to hit L1+X.

There are some inherent limits when using a controller as opposed to a keyboard.. the number of buttons you have to work with being the primary one. But beyond that you have to look at how comfortable you can make the interface when you have to control the whole thing like that.

I was actually thinking about it some more after my post up there.. and there's no reason you'd have to stop at 2-button combos.. hitting combinations of shoulder buttons is quite easy. Combination modifiers would drastically increase the number of button combinations possible with just the four face buttons on a PS3 controller. I came up with 60 combinations using shoulder buttons as modifiers before I decided that was plenty and stopped.

Ideally, they'd provide a system whereby you can customize your controller inputs the same way you'd customize keyboard inputs. But this doesn't seem like it'd be all that bad a way to start.

Edited, Feb 4th 2013 4:51pm by Callinon

can I ask why? I would assume you know how to plug a controller into your PC

im sure you can get the same UI on both versions with a controller

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In other news, I like both formats of play, but I also like to keep each style relegated to it's hardware. No keyboards/mice on ps3 and no controllers on PC, unless I'm on an emulator. I, like most others I would assume, like to change it up a bit every once in a while. I've even considered setting my computer up on my coffee table, sinch my computer chair is lame and uncomfortable. As long as they make both intuitive, I'll be happy.

I actually do that and its very nice you should try it.