I've never met anyone who does this. I've never HEARD of anyone who does this. I cannot think of any possible reason WHY anyone would want to do this.

So why is it an option in so many games?

Why do so many games not even offer the option to change the X and Y sensitivity together? For a LOT of games, you have to set both X and Y independently, and make sure that you set them to the same value.

When you can just type in a number, or you can click increase/decrease buttons to advance the numbers, that's fine. But there are some games where it's just sliders, and you have to oh-so-carefully drag each slider, until the readout (which often goes to three digits after the zero) is where you want it.

It's not a huge problem, but I'm just asking: is there even anybody out there, who really wants to have different sensitivities, on each axis?

I'm not judging. I'm just really, really curious.

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[–] spacemoss@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You can adjust them independently because your monitor's width and height are different. Someone may want to be able to flick their mouse to the left and right edges of the monitor in the same time frame they can flick it to the top and bottom, or vice verse if the monitor is rotated. It's probably useful in fps or with ultrawide/span monitor setups.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also because looking up and down may be more or less important than looking side-to-side.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

360 degrees left/right Maybe 90 degrees up/down

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Except maybe for a flight sim where I could imagine looking down would be even more important than side to side

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

An airplane’s windows don’t allow looking up or down, if we’re taking cockpits without canopies.

[–] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 6 months ago

It’s probably useful in fps or with ultrawide/span monitor setups.

That might be the case, but I still think it would just give me motion sickness. That's what has happened, every time I've accidentally had one axis set to a larger value than the other. It just makes me feel like my hands and eyes are disconnected.

But if some people dig it, that's cool.