The fun is in the game actually doing what you told it to. I'm glad that you're good with a keyboard and mouse (hence it feeling "easy" to you), you shouldn't have any problem competing then, since you'll switch to a good control scheme and use the right tool for the job.

There's nothing fun about fighting against inferior controls, rather than your opponent. It's also not "easier," it simply works better. Calling it easier is like saying that it's easier to peel potatoes with a knife than with fingernail clippers. No **** it's easier, because it's actually well-suited to what you're trying to do, so you're not putting all your time and effort into using a poor tool that's not suited to the task, rather than actually accomplishing the task at hand.

We use mice for shooters because they're BETTER for shooters. We use wheels for racing games because they're BETTER for racing games. It's that simple. It's not about "easy" or "hard," it's about using what works best. In your argument, using a controller is like doing a no-consumables run in an MMO, or a zero-deaths run on the hardest difficulty (in any game.) Sure, it's harder to do it that way, but it's purely artificial (that's the whole point: artificially making it harder). It's probably not the best analogy, because doing that stuff legitimately increases the amount of tactics, reflexes and skill you have to have AT THE GAME, though. Forcing poor controls, rather than making the game more challenging, makes simply getting the game to do what you tell it to harder, and for no real gain in terms of achievement or skill.

By all means though, you're welcome to get good and adapt or die against those of us using good controls while you stubbornly stick to crappy ones and feel smug. At the end of the day, the better player tends to be the one that comes ahead, not the control interface (unless it's the interface you're less skilled with). The superiority of mice over controllers really only breaks the ties when players of equal skill meet and everything else is the same.

Wow, just when you think the anti-mouse argument can't get any more stupid...

Use a controller to play House of the Dead, then. See, using ****** controls makes you badass (or just stupid...)

Seriously though, you will try to wreck me with your sixaxis, and if you're actually as good as you think you are, we might actually have a fun match. If you're not, I'll win. If you're better than me, you'll win. And thanks to choice in controls, it won't be because of ****** ones determining the victor beforehand. If we're equally skilled, well, I'll gladly take the advantage I have over you by not having to fight against poor controls you have to.

Because at the end of the day, that's how it plays out. It eliminates unfamiliar / poor controls as part of the equation, or at least minimizes it. Unless EVERYTHING else is equal, including the actual core skill of the player with their preferred control method, you don't see much difference (other than the mouse user dying a lot less than he would with a controller, because he's not fighting with ****** controls). If everything IS equal, including your relative skill with your controls, that's the only time that you see the mouse advantage being the deciding factor. The rest of the time, it just reduces the amount of frustration and complaining from people that want decent controls (and helps keep people playing your game, since they're not SUFFERING through ****** controls to play).

GSP
Please hit puberty and learn to make a properly-structured post. Even trying to read that gives me a headache, never mind trying to make any actual sense out of your inane rambling. Please tell me you're a Goon.

Forcing me to use a steering wheel in a platformer is an unfair advantage to the ones used to using steering wheels for platformers. Letting everyone use their preferred control method results in the fairest balance, since it eliminates controls as a factor. And again, you're being intentionally dishonest trying to compare the use of the right tool to improve the translation of what you want to in-game action, to that of using automation to achieve actions physically impossible otherwise (your modded turbo controller).

"adapt or die", it's funny how you say that and then refuse to adapt yourself...
"but its a console game", yeah, and CCP have said from very early on there would be KB/M support, so yeah, adapt or die...