Note you also have to look at it from their perspective. This is actually RULING on competitive gaming in Overwatch. And that ruling is

If you are a console gamer, you'd better be playing on a controller. Because we're going to implement a rule that says in consle competitive gaming you must be using a controller. Period. If you come to our BlizzCon tournament with a kb/mouse you will be disqualified.

From a competitive standpoint they have to provide a solid baseline for both consoles and pc. And thus they base both balancing and competitive balancing based on those baselines. And when real money tournaments are on the line, they don't want console players wondering "why does NiP all have keyboards and mice....?"

Note that Blizzard hasn't done any official tournaments yet. But you can bet when they do, they will be enforcing controller only. Its a telegraph of future intent. Basically "if you play console and want to go pro, if you so much as touch a keyboard and mouse we'll disualify your entire team"

I feel like this topic didn't fully cover what Jeff was saying... The article also glossed over it...

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20753235853?page=3#post-58

The Overwatch team objects to the use of mouse and keyboard on console.

We have contacted both first-party console manufacturers and expressed our concern about the use of mouse and keyboard and input conversion devices.

We have lobbied and will continue to lobby for first-party console manufacturers to either:

Disallow mouse and keyboard and input conversion devices

OR

Openly and easily support mouse and keyboard for ALL players

I encourage you to reach out to the hardware manufacturers and express your concerns (but please do so in a productive and respectful way).

So...

It isn't Blizzard, it is Sony and Microsoft repressing the peasants.

Zero.

They won't ban people for using the converters because they are undetectable via the libraries that the game has access to. That's why they need Microsoft/Sony to step in one way or another.

You use an awful lot of superlatives and absolutes in a world that is neither.

It's not cheating if it is an option that is available.  The designers of the game have to accept the reality that the ability to do that exists, trying to fight reality isn't going to get them anywhere.

And they are not "cheating".  It is not cheating to hook up a keyboard and mouse to play a game instead of a gamepad.  That's like how Vegas has tried to brainwash everyone for like a century now that "card counting" is cheating.  Card counting is not cheating, it is "thinking about it".  Vegas does this, or used to anyway don't know about today, trying to just demand that if you actually think about it you are "cheating".  If you have the ability to count cards doing that is not "cheating", it is just being actually good at playing cards.  It's like saying John Elway was a cheater because his arm was too strong.

This shouldn't have come as a surprise too them.  They should have known that gamers will do whatever they are able to do.  They have millions of dollars and they are trying to support a tournament system, if they want to spend money trying to force players to player their game the way they want them too that is up to them and doesn't affect me at all.  It is STILL hilarious too me that something so simple and basic was allowed to become an issue at all, and then even funnier that they don't immediately realize what to do about it.

Moved out of Founders area.

^ It doesn't matter. This topic is dead to me now that it got moved out of the Founder's area.

And here i thought i was the only one that shares that conclusion,

EA comes to mind and it is so very sad. They could've taken in the whole Westwood studios / Petroglyph team aboard to Lead the future of RTS, continued the legacy and be the very top of RTS Pride Today, create a sub division and not call it EA for RTS
instead they totally pig headed went forward with an attitude of We'll show YOU, which ended up in titles which could've been epic, but wasn't.

ea cnc titles was not bad Epic and revolutionary it was not, not compared to Westwood, as the creativity of Westwood put in a touch very unique, attention to detail, enjoyability, immersiveness and repeated playability.

EA chose the route your paragraph above describes so vividly...sigh..

As long as Star control Origins favor immersiveness, fun, detail, and realism and not pure competition based gaming i'm good, what i mean is they should not sacrifice the finer details, and that which creates an epic immersive experience, for pure competition based gaming, ie the depth, story,physics,realism,fun,comedy, ships physics realism weapons, detail, planets,aliens, that makes it Star Control.

I'm not saying SC should not be competitive, but it should be a game FIRST, not a competition platform, this is Star Control, it's the experience that makes the game,  i've seen it before where many times the attraction, the addiction factor of a game get's lost in favor of a competition style approach.

Melee is competitive by nature, but the physics, the ships, everything that is so perfectly balanced to the last detail of the ships and their weapons, should NOT be messed with. Paul and Fred had the perfect balance.

A small example, in later rts games, aircraft was forced to be permanently in the air, they did not have a landing pad, they never landed, so that time can be saved on "mining" and less time required to refuel/re-arm to keep attacking some did not need to re-arm or refuel on the ground, i don't care what game it is but when they start doing these things all my interest got lost, it didn't feel real anymore, it felt like a board game.

The creativity in game style, structures and units also suffered because of it in many titles. As the focus is WINNING not REALISM, FUN, Awe inspiring experiences.

Many more examples can be added but it would make this post very long.

Competition based gaming has it's place, and by default Melee is competitive anyway, so let's leave it at that and not change the finer details that makes Star Control a GREAT game.