WASD movement is controversial when it comes to ARPGs like Last Epoch, as many players either love it or hate it. Action RPGs tend to focus on movement, and using the WASD keys can limit that.

Not positive about the first game to use wasd+mouselook as default, but 95% sure it wasn't Half Life, because TC's Rainbow Six came out a few months earlier and I played both at launch.

Riot is adding WASD movement controls to League of Legends. This happens nearly 16 years after the game first launched.

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. If you’ve ever played a first-person shooter on a computer, you’ve probably used the WASD key configuration to move your character ...

Anyway, before going full nerd with an ortholinear split ergo keyboard, [Oleg] had a nice little WASD with many upsides. Because the ErgoDox is oh so customizable, his use of the WASD had fallen ...

I used to be a strong ESDF proponent, but the inertia of WASD is just way too strong. There are now a ton of non-FPS games that use WASD, and a ton of games that don't provide keyboard remapping ...