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Not to take away from the invention (I mean, my gaming mice are optical mice with a higher resolution, what was invented here?) but I've had such bad experience

by wink 5y ago

Not to take away from the invention (I mean, my gaming mice are optical mice with a higher resolution, what was invented here?) but I've had such bad experiences with Razer that I stopped buying them. Both of my RazerPro stopped working just after 2-3 years. I've had Logitech ones work for 10 years and Roccat ones work for 5 years. A lifespan 2 years is simply unacceptable for me.

detritus 5y ago
Whereas I've had Logitechs fail in months whilst my daily mouse at work has been the same Razer for over a decade now. It doesn't look very nice though, I'll concede...
salamandars 5y ago
Clearly experiences in this thread vary but I just had to throw my story in as it's the same as you. I've bought two Razer mice and quickly regretted it both times. It seems like their QA can burn you if you get unlucky! Most recently the Viper Mini: After less than two years the main button clicks became spongier and spongier until they started erroneously reporting double-clicks. The razer utility is also a piece of junk! The logitech mouse I had between these two Razers lasted nearly 10 years and was only replaced due to cosmetic wear. I got a higher-end logitech mouse this time and they now have this 'esports configurator' which lets you set up your keybinds, sensitivity, LEDs etc, and save it to the onboard memory - no need for an always-on utility app and your settings persist on different devices!
beebeepka 5y ago
I can see your point but Razer had the best gaming mice for quite a while. The Boomslang was sort of revolutionary. My original Diamondback was released almost 20 years ago and there was nothing like it for quite a while. Remember what Logitech have at the time? Huge, heavy, imprecise dual sensor crap
- smolder 5y ago
  They'd be good mice if they didn't come with dark-pattern-filled trash software that requires a cloud login to turn off the RGB lights. There was a "workaround" at the time to create an offline installer for your preferred mouse configuration: a completely unnecessary hurdle, created by Razer to annoy customers into logging in --but that was broken, too. The accompanying software, for a mouse, was so excruciatingly bad that I will never buy another device with the Razer name.
  - beebeepka 5y ago
    Right. I haven't purchased anything Razer since they forced this account thing. Even before that, now that I think about it. I was just saying they used to be very good at getting great mice in the hands of gamers when no one else would.

by wink 5y ago

detritus 5y ago

Whereas I've had Logitechs fail in months whilst my daily mouse at work has been the same Razer for over a decade now. It doesn't look very nice though, I'll concede...

salamandars 5y ago

Clearly experiences in this thread vary but I just had to throw my story in as it's the same as you. I've bought two Razer mice and quickly regretted it both times. It seems like their QA can burn you if you get unlucky! Most recently the Viper Mini: After less than two years the main button clicks became spongier and spongier until they started erroneously reporting double-clicks. The razer utility is also a piece of junk! The logitech mouse I had between these two Razers lasted nearly 10 years and was only replaced due to cosmetic wear. I got a higher-end logitech mouse this time and they now have this 'esports configurator' which lets you set up your keybinds, sensitivity, LEDs etc, and save it to the onboard memory - no need for an always-on utility app and your settings persist on different devices!

beebeepka 5y ago

I can see your point but Razer had the best gaming mice for quite a while. The Boomslang was sort of revolutionary. My original Diamondback was released almost 20 years ago and there was nothing like it for quite a while. Remember what Logitech have at the time? Huge, heavy, imprecise dual sensor crap

smolder 5y ago
They'd be good mice if they didn't come with dark-pattern-filled trash software that requires a cloud login to turn off the RGB lights. There was a "workaround" at the time to create an offline installer for your preferred mouse configuration: a completely unnecessary hurdle, created by Razer to annoy customers into logging in --but that was broken, too. The accompanying software, for a mouse, was so excruciatingly bad that I will never buy another device with the Razer name.
- beebeepka 5y ago
  Right. I haven't purchased anything Razer since they forced this account thing. Even before that, now that I think about it. I was just saying they used to be very good at getting great mice in the hands of gamers when no one else would.