Orcs have a bit of a mercenary streak.

Altmeri Dominion makes perfect sense.

This all fits nicely into lore, 1000 years ago remember? yeah some of it is being written. but they have to write some of it!

Tera is often brought up as a ‘not hotkey’ example but I assume there is still a hotkey for dodge and a hotkey for the skill chains.

An alternative is something like Vindictus where skills are mostly triggered by a sequence of mouse clicks. This is pretty much the same as having just two hotkeys.

Dungeon Fighter Online lets you set up fighting game like move sets to trigger skills.
So you could set ↓↘→ + key to cast Fireball. Probably works best if you are using a game pad but this doesn’t seem viable unless the game is a side scroller like DFO.

Another option is just key sequences but this turns the game into a typing tutor.

Something motion based like Kinect? The hate towards that seems equal or greater than the hate for hotkeys. Additionally Kinect + PC = Injuries.

Hopefully the breakthroughs for ‘control stuff just by thinking about it’ comes sooner rather than later.

But Jason’s explanation make sense, it really isn’t “leaked info” since it came from a news report.  Thanks Jason!