Loadface346

It's a flight game, it needs to support a flight stick. When I tell my buddies that TOR's getting free flight space combat the first thing they ask 'It supports a stick right?' and when I say 'no' they laugh and say 'good luck wit dat'.
As cool as I think this feature is, I recognize that this is has niche appeal. And that niche demands flight controls. A side comment at a Cantina Tour hinted that one of the motivations behind GS was to attract new players to TOR. You are seriously handicapping yourself with those players you're trying to attract.
I understand your desire to make it 'accessible' and not require people to buy an additional peripheral (er, just a sec, headset cord's all tangled) but I think that's rather misguided. How many people already have an XBox or PSx controller laying around?
As for the 'advantage' fallacy, as the game stands now, a headtracker (eg. TrackIR in mouse mode) seems like the killer controller and those aren't cheap (US$150?). Cheap sticks are US$20?
Yes I played GS on the 2nd PTS weekend. Yes I got used to the moue. Yes it still feels very awkward.
For the inevitable 'if they spend time adding stick support it'll take time away from new maps' QQ... Maps are content not engine development.