"Never again" products

[Maxpphire]

Seagate Harddrives - I've seriously never had one last for more then a year. Made me a WD fan for life

 

Any keyboard where the backspace button is the same size as the letter keys or doesn't have the numpad on the right of it.

 

Anything Apple - Not a fan of the pricepoints or how the software treats it's users like children. Debating getting an iPad for Music Game Related shenanigans, but I'm more likely to build my own set up of arcade versions rather then get the iOS games.

 

MadCatz - I'd much rather build my own controller then use these. I suck at building controllers that are not arcade machine based.

 

Any DDR Gamepad that isn't made by Cobalt Flux (RIP), Kyle Ward, or attached to the arcade machine itself - Seriously, they all suck otherwise.

 

Korean DDR or Dancemaniax Arcade Cabs - They aren't as well built as their Japanese Counterparts and tend to break down faster.

[okie_dokie]

Razer Mice. Still using my Naga 2014, the left click split down the middle a few days after the warranty expired. Don't want to go through the RMA process; I've heard Razer CS isn't the best.

[Brennan Price]

18 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Well you could always turn off Steam Guard. And how would it know it's on someone else's network when everyone else's home network is practically 192.168.1.0/24?

Yeah that's true but I guess it doesn't have to be the IP address specifically. Like it could recognise your location or something at least half decent. Also, sure I can try to turn steam guard off, didn't know I could do that.

[kelvinhall05]

A Corsair PSU. I bought a CX450M (grey label) and it popped a capacitor when I was only testing components to see if they powered on.

[System Error Message]

ebay, too many fakes, scams, low quality stuff.

[Phentos]

My blacklist:

Steelseries - Had the 7G keyboard back in the day. A bit over a year of use later, the keyboard started behaving erratically, then a few weeks later it flat out quit. Contacted support, warranty was still good. Support said it was cord damage even though I treated the keyboard EXTREMELY well. I insisted upon that, but support refused warranty claim and wanted me to pay $100 for a full repair/replacement. Swore never to buy another Steelseries product for as long as I live.

 

MSI - Cousin's GTX 970 quit on him a year ago. MSI wanted to charge him for RMA (seeing a pattern here?) He caved in and went through with it. Got card back after 3 weeks. Replacement died after a month. He now owns an Asus Strix GTX 1070 and he loves it to death.

 

Non-tech: 

Madcatz (glad they are gone)

Subway - Consistently bad, got really ill from a sandwich with old condiments and meat. Never again.

 

[Docnar]

Razer Laptops. I do like their keyboards.

[Docnar]

10 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Community?  Like jerks drive them or something?

Ah like BMW's generally.

[MEC-777]

Corsair SP fans. Overpriced, lack performance and make an annoying sound (IMO). 

 

ANY lower-end PSU. Specifically; the Cooler Master GX series. Stay away. Stay far away! lol.

[Jade]

23 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Well you could always turn off Steam Guard. And how would it know it's on someone else's network when everyone else's home network is practically 192.168.1.0/24?

That's a trivial problem at best. Steam could log the IP that logs in and just whitelist that IP from needing Steam Guard authentication for x duration. Still a bad idea, though, as that'd present a bigger attack vector to compromise accounts. Internal IP doesn't matter at all, only the external IP--the one Steam sees--would.

 

As for the topic...

Asus' tablets -- had my 2012 Nexus 7 die on me... twice, and it's been completely unusable since. Even with factory resets and nothing installed, it just crawls... thanks, bad flash storage.

HP laptops (mostly -- only had bad experiences, but I'm sure they've got some decent stuff)

Netgear consumer networking equipment

[Mira Yurizaki]

4 hours ago, Brennan_Price said:

Yeah that's true but I guess it doesn't have to be the IP address specifically. Like it could recognise your location or something at least half decent. Also, sure I can try to turn steam guard off, didn't know I could do that.

 

4 minutes ago, Jade said:

That's a trivial problem at best. Steam could log the IP that logs in and just whitelist that IP from needing Steam Guard authentication for x duration. Still a bad idea, though, as that'd present a bigger attack vector to compromise accounts. Internal IP doesn't matter at all, only the external IP--the one Steam sees--would.

The problem is any amount of convenience you try to introduce in a secure system makes it less secure.

[Princess Luna]

On 17/07/2017 at 1:48 AM, WereCat said:

Fallout

I never bought it but my boyfriend has it on steam and we have shared libraries, I went to try Fallout New Vegas after people saying how "awesome" "fantastic" it was and since I do like games like Metro2033 Half-Life STALKER and so on I gave it a go.... god damn I honestly don't know what people see in it, I have never played any thing as slow paced and boring before in my life.

[DildorTheDecent]

On 7/17/2017 at 6:11 AM, Abyss Gaming said:

Same, just my speakers are crappy ballin water dancing ones lol

trade you

http://www.klipsch.com/products/reference-premiere-bookshelf-speakers

[WereCat]

9 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

I never bought it but my boyfriend has it on steam and we have shared libraries, I went to try Fallout New Vegas after people saying how "awesome" "fantastic" it was and since I do like games like Metro2033 Half-Life STALKER and so on I gave it a go.... god damn I honestly don't know what people see in it, I have never played any thing as slow paced and boring before in my life.

Haha, that's exactly how I felt about it. I also like the other games you mentioned and the steampunk/wasteland style in general.

[Guest]

A 20$ valued mobile VR headset phone holder for 100 dollars....

[fastcar123]

Anything made by Dell. Never had a Dell computer, accessory, or just anything from them that didn't have problems.

[KE2012]

Anything that requires the use of Razer or Itunes software. I don't care who makes it, but if it uses this software I'm not interested.  

[Dr. KEK]

to be quite honest, iPhone. I had a 6S for about a year. Woke up one day and it was bricked. Restored with iTunes, and at iOS welcome screen it couldn't be activated. Got verizon to replace it luckily, apple said warranty had expired. Sold it.

[Mira Yurizaki]

16 hours ago, Bleedingyamato said:

Community?  Like jerks drive them or something?

A lot of those who modify their Civics do the following:

• Lower the car
• Stance the wheels
• Add an amplifier instead of a muffler (or maybe just add a can that doesn't do anything)
• Put "Your mom" and shocker decals somewhere
• Change the paint to a matte finish that looks like someone with greasy fast food fingers molested so it doesn't look clean (actually this applies to 99% of matte finished cars I've seen, nobody seems to know how to do it correctly).
• Sometimes add a tacky spoiler
• Sometimes add that dark tint to the light covers (I'm almost certain this is illegal)

You know, things that make the car perform worse while annoying everyone else around them.

[Keg Ops]

Monster for poor quality and overpriced products (plus their sales strategy is shit tier).

 

Razer for computer accessories (cheap build quality for price, but I might get a razerbook tho).

 

 

[Taja]

Gigabyte video cards. The 750ti i bought was full crap, it had a manufacturing defect, it RUSTED AND DIED in 3 months. Meanwhile my mobo (also from gigabyte) is working fine for 4(?) years. 

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, Taja said:

manufacturing defect

there is your problem, it happens to every company.  

[The Sloth]

4 minutes ago, Kek Ops said:

Razer for computer accessories (cheap build quality for price, but I might get a razerbook tho).

 

razer makes shitty computers, bad customer support, and shitty engineering. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

5 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

Their mice are decent, but their SW for them is terrible.  Otherwise, I agree.

Software in general for any "gaming hardware" is terrible. The only time I ever have it installed is if the device can be persistently configured.

[Taja]

2 hours ago, nerdslayer1 said:

there is your problem, it happens to every company.  

Yeah, true. But dealing with it by repeating "the warranty does not cover that" after multiple atempts, is just ridiculous. I showed a photo of corrosion that was compatible with a 6+ year card (and it was 3 months) and they just repeated the same shit. I felt I was getting automated replies.