Why game producer thinks everyone uses qwerty keyboard layout?

It's just that some developers don't have the time to allow for manual rebinding, so they do the most popular layout, which is qwerty. It's a small scale version of why they don't make it compatible for different OSs. Especially with Dvorak, you take the risk that a game won't be able to use it when you choose to use Dvorak, just like with using a Linux or Mac.

Dvorak have really nice musics!!!

now on the serious side, have you ever notice gamming keyboards are all QWERTY without accents ?

Ironically, QWERTY was made bad to slow down typists on mechanic typewriters, which jammed if user used them too fast. Modern electronic keys don't have such problems... But we still need to suffer :|

I use a Qwerty keyboard but I still rebind the keys to my preference so I dont know why you are a mad.

Belgian azerty here. I've been thinking... to buy myself a qwerty keyboard. Makes thinks easier, and allows me to buy a notebook in other countries (which are cheaper). Still not sure.

We use QWERTZ here, justy Y/Z switched - not much of a problem.

Let's all use this!

You are human and get used to or change the lay out. :)
I alread worked with 5 different Keyboard in 5 different countries. and I got used to :) My previous keyboard was Dutch, now it is German :D

I'd heard about dvorak before but never looked into it; it does indeed seem more convenient. So now I've got Norwegian Dvorak added to my inputs and will give it a fair shake.

Thanks for reminding me :)

dvorak? WHAT KIND OF SORCERY IS THIS?

Honestly, I didn't know DVORAK was around anymore.

Common sense would dictate that probably easily over 95% use Qwerty.

Many people who use other layouts typically do it for legitimate reasons, not gaming. Dvorak is supposed to use less finger motion, increase typing rate and reduces errors compared to Qwerty. If you are remapping it back to a WASD format, then you're really missing the point of the Dvorak layout.

Not sure if serious or simply trying to brag.

The only Dvorak I know is the composer, lol. (Jk, I knew of the keyboard too...)

On the PC, they should always, always make the game fully customizable, because that is the strong point of the platform. People who fail to do this, or do it in a rushed and buggy manner so half the rebinds don't work (cough BF3, cough skyrim) are just taking the piss.

I am a RDFG user myself. Why? It's obviousl Same feel as WASD, but the F key has a bump so I can feel my way back to my movement keys. Also there are more surrounding keys for additional rebinds. Such as Q, W, E, T, Y, A, S, Z, V - all within comfortable reach. IMO this should be the standard but yes.. sadly.. majority rules. It's a shame when the majority is fucking wrong though, isn't it? ;p

for the standard layout they all should use (for directx games) a global hook for imput. many games do that so it doesn't matter if you are useing a qwertz or a qwerty keybord. but i don't realy know if this also works with a keybordlayout like yours... but yeah... developers are sometimes very lazy (like me xD)

I thought about that as well. They should introduce йцукен layout as an international standart. Oh stop, they shouldn't...

I don't use QWERTY nor QWERTZ nor DVORAK, I use GABEN

Man, its YOUR problem. For example - why there are no bikes for people with 3 legs? MAKE THEM CREATE IT! They would me sooooo usefull for majority, dont they?

p.s.- YOU can use hundreds of virtual keyboards to fix this problem\emulate qwerty keyboard. But why should you do that? Better make developers THINK about 1-2% of people, who use dvorak for gaming!

Don't worry, in 2 months and 43 minutes we will all be using brainwaves to move in games anyway.

Ideally all games should allows key input to be fully customizable so that you can rebind the keys as you choose.
As for why they don't, regardless of likely valid arguments about the superiority of the DVORAK layout it has such a tiny market share that it very likely never even occurs to them that there is an alternative never mind supporting it.

If it does occur to them, they probably aren't willing to take the time to support something that has in the range of a .1% market share last I read. However little effort it might take, the payoff in terms of additional customer adoption is going to be virtually nonexistent.

nearly everyone does use qwerty keyboards, iv never even heard of this dvorak thing

Well, using a AZERTY keyboard, I'd be pretty pissed off if a game I played didn't allow to rebind. But as long as I can do that, I'm ok with them not having some azerty profile already in the game.
I'm used to rebinding always the same keys anyway.

I think most English speaking gamers use QWERTY. Why spend more money attempting to accommodate all sorts of keyboard layouts when you can just support the most used per alphabet?

Besides, if you can customize the keys, that's all you need anyways. I've never heard of this layout before and I've seen all sorts of gaming keyboard designs including, "SAY NO TO WASD".

Dude... I think you may want to change this pointless thread to something more useful. Like games that DON'T let you rebind your keys at all. That's a problem. Not having to do 10 seconds of work. Even people with Qwerty usually rebind to fit their tastes.

because everyone uses qwerty keyboard layout