it's become a trend lately, mainly in flash games, but also in other games, to make some or even all keys permanently bound to a certain button. i personally use an AZERTY keyboard, but most games default to a QWERTY keyboard. this means that when a game forces me to use WSAD, it basically becomes unplayable, because that's 3 different rows of keys I need to use. and i don't want to change my keyboard input setup to QWERTY every time i want to play those games.
a VERY recent example: the Kingdoms of Amalur demo. I get into the game, press Z to move... and the character doesn't respond. I go and check the keybindings (which as usual are somewhat deeply hidden in the menu) and i cannot find a way to rebind them. that's just sad, why include the option to change your keybindings if you don't allow to rebind the most important ones? i encounter this problem in other games, mostly flash games, but this is actually the first mainstream game i've encountered this issue.
are there any easy fixes?