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FPS games kind of suck on a controller, due to a lack of precision. At the very least, you can't compete with anyone using a mouse. A trackball, on the other h

• roc 13y ago
  Is going to exhaust your thumb and cramp the hell out of your hand in record time. And on top of that, occupy some 'third' control scheme somewhere between "kb/m" and "gamepad" that developers would have to explicitly target, at a time when so few of them even put the time into adding proper kb/m support for their console-first-PC-port-maybe-if-its-cheap-to-farm-out titles.
  • mheathr 13y ago
    I find trackballs (the Logitech M570 in particular) much more comfortable to use over long periods of time personally. The only criticism I have of their design is that having the trackball on the side entails removing a lot of area where additional mouse buttons could have been placed, and I enjoy having extra buttons there to bind to debugging/build/vcs keys.