

That’s something that can’t be matched on controller. (That said, one genre that the keyboard is perfect for is RTS games. You can’t be a jack of all trades and expect to be a master as well. More options can be a good thing, but it always comes at a cost of usability. You use a swiss army knife not because it’s the best at what it does, but because it can do a lot. but to argue that its knife is more effective than an actual kitchen knife, or a survival knife, at their respective roles, is ridiculous.

Sure, it has a knife on it, scissors, bottle opener, etc. I’ll use the analogy of a swiss army knife. To make the argument that a keyboard is a more effective controller than a controller itself (specifically designed for the task) is to fly in the face of design principles. The fact that it has so many individual inputs means that it’s flexible enough to become a game controller, but not focussed enough to do it well. There’s a design principle called the flexibility – usability trade-off which basically says the more options you have, the less inherently usable your design is.Ī keyboard, as I said, was originally designed for text entry. Older versions of the Steamworks SDK may contain other tools which are no longer used.As well) I think that the same mindset that celebrates Android devices is the one that celebrates keyboards.

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