
This keyboard makes playing Final Fantasy XI so much easier, however, it is actually missing buttons that are required for Final Fantasy XI chat functions.
The control key is used by Final Fantasy XI to quickly reply to a /tell sent by another player. Since there is no control key one must manually type it in.
The "/" key is in green. But pressing the green button happens to make all the text disappear. So to type "/" (which is required for just about every chat function in the game) I have to press the green button, then the button with "/" in it, then the green button again, then the "/" button again... and even then it doesn't happen all the time.
The ' key is also behind green, which is on the other side of the keypad from where it normally would be on a regular keyboard. Which is weird. So I end up using the , key instead.
Then there is no tab key. Which is required by Final Fantasy XI to use auto translate. However, this game is in the onscreen keyboard. So to use auto translate I have to use a combination of the two keyboards which is kind of redundant.
And then chat itself is too sensative. I feel like a snake with a lisp. All the letters double very often. To be fair, this only seems to happen within a game, and not in xbox live messages, but I only really use it within a game.
While the backlit is a nice feature, it turns itself off too fast and can't be disabled when it is otherwise daylight so wastes allot of battery life from my wireless controller. And while having Shift, Green, and Orange, to fit so many more characters than the number of keys, it's still a tedious function.
All in all, I would say that it is fun to have a keyboard attached to a controller, but it is not very practical. For the money spent on this I should have instead purchased a regular USB keyboard and just plugged it into the Xbox directly. I could even have bought a mini wireless USB keyboard with a backlight and it wouldn't have been that much of a hassel to use.
So I give it 5 stars for fun, but 3 stars overall because of limited usability.
Buy Xbox 360 Text Messaging Kit!