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Sure, but real professional gamers are few and far between. It would be a stretch to claim that their fairly unique peripheral needs are the reason why wireless
by archagon 12y ago
Sure, but real professional gamers are few and far between. It would be a stretch to claim that their fairly unique peripheral needs are the reason why wireless keyboards are scarce in general. No — I think it's exactly the scare-quote professional gamers who scoff at things like wireless keyboards and keep them from becoming popular.
I didn't write serious or hardcore because I was responding to the language in the parent post. And I mentioned SMB because it's a game that really tests your reflexes.
- darkerside 12y agoFair point, and that's what you should have responded to the parent post with. Making an irrelevant remark about non-professional gamers came off as quite condescending.
- archagon 12y agoSorry, I guess I'm just annoyed at all the armchair professional gamers on /r/games talking about what's supposedly best for everyone and whatnot.
- lawl 12y agoI don't think the problem is necessarily the latency. But with wireless keyboard/mouse I sometimes had the issue of a key not beeing registered, or a fast mouse movement. Sometimes just randomly or when the batteries were getting low. For regular use that's not too much of a problem, as it happens rarely, but even for somewhat serious gaming that's not acceptable, as it can cost you hours of progression, a lost match or whatever.