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Hi everyone,

I know a ton of people buy Razer products and I've been wondering what makes them so good? I have a friend that buys everything from Razer and everything as soon as it releases. I also read somewhere on a article explaining why you shouldn't ever buy Razer's products. I've personally never used a Razer product so I wouldn't know a thing about them. Any input I can get from you guys is much appreciated!

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ive heard there mouse pads are good but haven't anything from them before.

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Hi everyone,

I know a ton of people buy Razer products and I've been wondering what makes them so good? I have a friend that buys everything from Razer and everything as soon as it releases. I also read somewhere on a article explaining why you shouldn't ever buy Razer's products. I've personally never used a Razer product so I wouldn't know a thing about them. Any input I can get from you guys is much appreciated!

 

I hate on them, I had a headset and it broke easily (but it's a headset after all) but I believe they do good mouses, but I think that is it. And maybe their keyboard, but I heard bad stories about 'em.

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personal experience, no

 

general opinion on the forum, no (last time i checked)

 

should you buy it, no

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Hi everyone,

I know a ton of people buy Razer products and I've been wondering what makes them so good? I have a friend that buys everything from Razer and everything as soon as it releases. I also read somewhere on a article explaining why you shouldn't ever buy Razer's products. I've personally never used a Razer product so I wouldn't know a thing about them. Any input I can get from you guys is much appreciated!

x company's products are never good. Specific products are good. That company may have some excellent products and some awful products.

 

They have some good mice. They have some good keyboards. Their headsets are almost all bad.

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you can't lump a whole company together. thats like saying samsung sucks.

yeah, you might not like their phones, but does that mean their washing machines suck?

 

Razer has some nice products. I love my deathadder. I like chicklet keys, so I love my essentials keyboard. I love its stealthed look. 

 

they also have crap products, last I heard their headphones/headsets were not the best

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I just love them..... after having two blackwiddow keyboards for a total of over a year, only downside is that it is kinda bulky but that doesn't make it feel cheap.

I got my second blackwiddow and it had to be taken back because recall, had a k95 for awhile took over 3 weeks but i finally been able to type a word without hitting a micro-key.

Got my blackwiddow back and i loved it ever since would buy Razer again.

The USB on the side of the keyboard is really useful

(Just stay away from the headsets)

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Only Razer product i've owned is a Razer Deathadder. Great mouse, very comfortable and served me well whilst i had it. 

 

Only gripe is Razer's shitty cloud program called Synapse, it caused me more hassle than anything else. So i stuck with using the legacy drivers and never ran into an issue with them.

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I have had several of their mice fail on me, my Blackwidow died, and I just stopped using my Nostromo. I haven't had any issues with my two mousepads though, but what can they really fuck up with a mousepad...

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The deathadder is the only decent product I've seen from them  The rest is generally over priced crap. Their mechanical keyboards use cheap Chinese Kailh switches not Cherry MX, and their headsets are poorly built, over priced, or both. I would imagine the same characteristics apply to the rest of their products.

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The mousepad is pretty good. 

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I once bought a Razer Chroma - liked the quality of the product but returned it because of their "always on" internet requirement to use their hardware,  And their EULA basically shows it is a key-logger.

 

“User Generated Information” means any information made available to Razer through your use of the Software. Subject to the Privacy Policy mentioned above, you expressly grant Razer the complete and irrevocable right to use, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, transmit, broadcast, and otherwise communicate, and publicly display and perform the User Generated Information and derivative works thereof in any form, anywhere, with or without attribution to you, and without any notice or compensation to you of any kind.

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Like everything, fanboys and haters are the worst people because they refuse to listen to any sort of reason.  Razer products need to be evaluated on what they are, not their brand.  They make really good mice, and one of the few companies that make left handed mice.

 

Their headsets are total ass though.  Also not too fond of the razer font logo that I've seen on all their headsets.

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ive owned two death adders in the past 6 years. Best FPS mouse hands down.

I LOVE The Blackwidow.

and the kraken 7.1 is aight, but meh there headsets have always been kinda crap.

i just purchased the blackwidow chroma and death adder chroma.


They have good and bad products.  There mouse pads are the best though.

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at best they're ok, I wouldn't advise anybody to buy any of their products tho because its not hard to find something better

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The deathadder is good, comfortable, accurate, but any other products are lesser to other ones imo, they have just poor build quality :S

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I had a Death Adder. It failed in about 3 months. Results may not be typical, but I'm avoiding them since then.

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I have a BlackWidow mechanical keyboard that I really like, it's built like a tank. I'm rough on keyboards as I have a very heavy handed typing style but the BlackWidow is holding up nicely. The keyboard is great but their software and customer service both suck!

 

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I have owned 2 razer mice the Abyssus was the first I owned and I loved it a lot for a cheap mouse. The second mouse I bought from them was terrible it's the Razer Taipan, I would never get it ever, a few of the problems are that the sensor is crap as hell, super acceleration, craps out on you at random intervals, where the X and Y axis or other Axis refuse to work, the scroll wheel stopped working as well. However the mousepads are great so I would just stick with their mouse pads. The Logitech G502 is however the best mouse I have ever used and will never change again unless a newer version comes out with very similar ergonomics, I have zero complaints about the G502 it is just perfect for me.

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I would love a G502 as well, but I just bought my deathadder chroma to replace my older 3.5g, so I don't think I can justify a purchase of another mouse.

 

Oh well.

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I really love my Naga, i can play League w/ one hand xD

 

BlackWidow seems good, I have only owned a few proper gaming keyboards

 

A have no idea why people say their stuff is built cheap, as a frequenter on LAN parties, my Kraken headset, mouse, and keyboard have been thrown around in bags and stepped on and god knows what else, and still nothing broken.

 

Synapse is a pain, but if you have half a brain you can find a fix for whatever issue you have, the program is great when it works.

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Personal Experience: 

 

Razer Deathstalker Ultimate = very expensive crappy keyboard, "trackpad" on the side with multiple apps doesn't function well

Razer Blackshark BF3 = good... had it for 2 years, never failed me until the mic stopped working for no reason (I don't throw my headset around). 

 

Overall experience:

 

expensive, crap... don't buy the headsets nor keyboards

 

Get a ModMic and a professional set of headphones.

Keyboard wise, get a K70

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they are great sellers with great designers, but bad but their products are mass produced with bad finishes and bad engineering. They are brave innovators with a beautiful logo

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