Hopeless Bastard said:
I posted how its more efficient, you said "NUH UH!"
No, you posted how you could 'just use keys', but that doesn't mean it's more efficient.
I could use a keyboard to fully control an FPS, but it's not nearly as efficient as a mouse and Keyboard combo.
This is the exact same situation. Rather then using key binds to have a lean fully left or lean fully right option, an IR tracker lets me lean as much, or as little, as I want. Rather then being restricted to the binary choices of 'fully leaning' or 'not leaning at all', I can lean as much as I want. Just like with a Keyboard where I'm either turning at full speed or not turning at all, but using a mouse lets me turn at a speed of my choice.
That's efficiency.
What you're suggesting isn't efficient. It's a sub-par, jury-rigged solution.
I don't want to use more keys for my games. I played games way back in the day that required you to have the key-board shortcut help card in front of you. I don't want to go back to that. Now it's possible to reduce that to a few motions of the head. That's called 'efficiency'. It's also faster and easier. I can just move my head. I don't have to think about what key is bound where, because moving my head does it for me.
That's also 'intuitive', not because some gaming website overuses words like that, but because leaning in reality is a similar action, which means it's easy to catch on to the 'new concept' of leaning with your head. Anyone who has ever 'got into' a game will probably admit they duck instinctively anyways at points when playing. Similar idea.
The
cost efficiency is a completely different story, but it's also totally subjective. Someone here said they like going to the gym, and I prefer to work-out at home. I don't see gyms as very cost efficient, but obviously they do. They might get a better workout at the gym if they have free classes, or equipment that I don't have access to at my house. But we both get what we want. Someone with this IR tracker will get a better leaning mechanic, the ability to turn one's head, or the ability to look around corners while driving/flying, for more money then you are obviously willing to spend.
You're happy with your set up like I'm happy with working out at home.
Other people are happy with the extra abilities the IR provides like other people are happy with the extra equipment they get at a gym.
Everyone thinks they are spending, or saving, their money wisely.
Completely subjective.
