this is for richer middle and high school kids to get to show status, and I guess any adult who is still attached to marketing aimed at teenagers
Considering the majority of Americans can barely read at the 4th grade level
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The Razer Blackwidow Ultimate 2013 I got new is still working fine. Hell, Synapse just started working again for me after like 8 years. I kind of wanted a V4 Pro but the 2013 keeps kicking, so why bother. I’m beginning to wonder if their newer keyboards also live up to the same standards or if I just got lucky in some small window of time. 2009-2012 was a fun time to be building a computer.
I’ve owned two razor mice, they both had the scrollwheel break within a year. I left the cult of razer then.
Yes this, the scroll wheel breaking is driving me insane. I’m thinking I’ll not buy anymore mice from them now because it’s happened to every single one
It’s really hit or miss with the mice. All of mine lasted several years or more but I know some models are pretty bad. I had a copperhead that lasted a while, then a naga “green” that didn’t last very long but I could probably fix (I think the PCB inside came off its fixations and then some soldering broke) but to be fair it did travel across the Atlantic ocean and back. My current naga with the magnetic panels has been going strong for some years.
Their gamepads are junk though, a good old 360 controller feels better and lasts infinitely longer. I’ve also owned a few pairs of kraken headsets which were comfortable but overpriced and not durable enough. Then again the other gaming brands aren’t fairing much better on that front (I currently have a corsair virtuoso I got as a gift, it’s ok but the planned obsolescence ear pads are driving me nuts). The keyboards look like they’re gamer status symbols more than anything else, just like the laptops. I got a cheapo mechanical keyboard from some random brand and it feels better than the 200€+ razer keyboards I’ve tried.
Had the same issue with their controllers. Got one, was busted on arrival. Got replacement, was busted within a week. I’ve never had such a bad experience
Same, although more than just the scroll wheel broke. And I think I was on three in a row breaking within a year before I gave up. It’s a shame because feature-wise I like some of their stuff, but it’s just impossible to buy products with this level of QC.
I’ve used logitech g502s for about 10 years now and the only time I’ve had issues was when I accidentally knocked it off my desk. I’m not a fanboy but logitech makes some good quality stuff for relatively decent prices
Imagine having a cult-like devotion to a brand. It’s pretty fucking pathetic.
And then imagine that brand is fucking razor…
Apple, anyone?
I dont particularly like Razer, but if there’s anything they do well, its marketing. They’re right… if they’re able to sell a key cap for 90 bucks, their marketing must have been so good in the past they created a literal materialistic cult.
This obviously isn’t for me, its for their cult members. I hope one day, they can exit the public peripheral market and sell exclusively to their cult members at 1000% markup.
Their marketing dept. - if they have one - has to be insane
The CEO was doing the heavy lifting through his socials, when I was still following them. It really is kind of a cult
I wouldn’t pay it, but that is the price you’d normally pay for custom keycaps on Etsy as well. Quite often for lower quality too
Suckers gonna suck
$90, which makes it one of the most expensive keycaps I think I’ve ever covered on this site.
Gold Greenman - 14K Solid Gold with Genuine Emerald Gemstone Eyes / Keycap Worthy of Royalty 585 Golden / Artefact for Mechanical Keyboard
$4,837.37
Wealth inequality makes me so sad sometimes.
Like I don’t have any objection to people wanting to have good experiences in life, or sometimes buy some quality item that they might really like. But then I see shit like this $5000 keycap or a $15000 action figure or some other ridiculously overpriced dumb thing and I think whoever is buying this is probably just bored. They probably just have more money than they know what to do with, and maybe they think that automatically more expensive means better, and so they just throw their money away on these hollow objects.
And obviously $5000 isn’t going to solve homelessness or end world hunger, but if you are in the position to throw $5000 away on some dumb decoration that literally not even one other person will ever look at or care about, then you probably do have the resources that you could be doing something else with that money if you wanted to.
But instead, it seems that basically all of us are caught in an endless cycle of vapid consumerism, and while most of us are trying to survive, a bunch of other people just don’t really care, and meanwhile the world is literally burning down around us.