I am NOT asking to make the default different from what it is now. Option, Randy, option. If I decided to make it "not play well", it would be my choosing.
It would also reflect poorly on the product in the eyes of those who might not fully understand the interface or how it works. Word of mouth is the most important advertising one can have for a product. If a product gets a "bad rap" because someone sets it up incorrectly, it can be devastating, even though the problem was only perceived.
This was what my laser printer parallel was meant to illustrate and you completely missed the point. If I wanted to talk "inkjet printers", I would have. Inkjets have adjustments because of the loose manufacturing tolerances on the heads and how they are held in the printer. Alignment is ALWAYS necessary. Apples and oranges.
There are so many options on the interface now, I think it's confusing and scary enough to the novice. Options are great, but when they begin to overwhelm, you have a problem.
More like having a car that sometimes accelarates without stepping on the gas.
You are talking about the problem with the stick, which I said needs to be fixed. You aren't even drawing your analogy on the same premise.
If I buy Xarcade, I buy clickly-clicks. If I buy your 49-way interface, I buy a high sensitivity 4-way. I have the option of pulling the clicky-clicks, but I don't have the option of pulling the high sensitivity from your interface. And you are the only prebuilt option for 49-way to 4/8-way & analog. Not exactly "force", but "buying into a certain sensitivity" is longer to say.
If you buy an Xarcade only to pull the controls, you should have researched your purchase better or emailed me about a panel kit
. And you can't change the throw or clickiness of a Super joystick either. How does that fall into your equation? Should we direct the petition to HAPP or directly to Industrias Lorenzo
?
BTW, anyone who thinks that a joystick with a fairly strong rubber centering grommet is going to be more comfortable or accurate to use if one were required to push it further off center, where the resistance grows exponentially, should probably research their purchases (and some other things) a little better as well.
And good and higher quality color laser and inkjet let you make adjustments to the head alinements, contrast, etc (but usually not focus) in case the default settings aren't the best for whatever reason (such as shipping, manufacturing differences, temperture, humidity, etc). The defaults are "good enough" most of the time, but the adjustments are there anyway. The ones that don't have the adjustments are usually the cheapo "buy for free" trash.
As mentioned above, this analogy doesn't cut it. Any time you have consumer grade devices where colors must be overlaid precisely, there will
always be the need for alignment. Even on the "cheapo "buy for free" trash." That is why I didn't mention color in my analogy.
Which is what defaults are for.
Look at the many PC motherboard manufacturers make overclockable MB, even if only 1%-5% buyers continue to overclock after playing with it. Some MBs aren't for overclocking, sure, but most BYO MBs have some level of overclocking.
Well, this isn't a BYO interface, it's a fully tested product that will work well within the confines of it's intended use. I took so much heat for this device that a sane man would have walked away shaking his head and taken up farming. But I felt comfortable making the statement and stuck by it because of the testing that had gone into it. Strangely, some of the very same people who doubted such a thing could even work now seem to think they can do it
better (present company excluded....)
As for your analogy, don't think of it as the motherboard, rather the CPU. Look at the lengths they go to so as to prevent modification of the CPU for the purposes of overclocking. Part of it is a money grab, certainly, but the rest of it revolves around support issues, warranty, marketing, quality perception and so-on. Sure, Billy can run his 1.2 at 3ghz. But when it catches on fire, for some reason Billy never has a problem talking about how crappy the processors are. And the people who listen to Billy don't know he's an evil overclocker and just hear the negative noise that sways their perception of the product, so the manufacturers do their best to make sure Billy can only run his 1.2 at 1.2ghz.
*However, from what you're saying here, especially from the similes you use, I'm guessing the gwiz49 uses an algorithm that doesn't go well with adjustable levels. At some point I should test wiring a 49-way old school and see if I can get 4-way action with a 3x3 deadzone grid. After I update Analog+. 
There are only 49 possible positions for these sticks. Giving up
any of them at all is not a good thing unless absolutely necessary. Some modes are more forgiving of a deadzone than others and this is based heavily on the
types of games associated with those modes. And that's all I have to say about that
RandyT
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