I have heard time and again how people think that the controls in FFXI are wonky. Compared to any other title that I have played, the controls are extremely easy to use.

One thing that makes a huge difference, for me, is the fact that everything can be controlled via the keyboard, which means that talking to your fellow players and controlling your character is a snap. Try talking to players in WoW or any other game that requires a mouse and all you get is grunting from your fellow players. As things get difficult, where coordination is the most required, you get even less communication. Even in a simple 10 man event in WOW, you have to use a third party audible application just to keep coordinated, yet in FFXI 64 person events run fine.

Is it really just the fact that people don't have a fuzzy mouse in their hand block their minds to other control schemes?