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On 4/30/2018 at 12:04 AM, Valkyrie Lenneth said:

a gaming chair is a chair that fits ur bum and body nice,   gaming chairs are just a big gimmick other then that

Can confirm, I got a dxracer one after seeing it highly praised in a review. My previous 10+ year old office chair was just as comfortable. Big regret, I want to buy a normal office chair eventually - this wasn't even worth half the price.

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Height, body type, weight, and ... well you sitting style all has a part to play.

You need to sit in a chair before buying, both your butt AND your back will thank you.

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You can get an actual Recaro second hand reclining car seat and mate it to a stand, it will be 100x more comfortable and durable than these "gaming" chairs.

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Just now, Strategic said:

Updated after 2 years of use, seems I need a new chair now. This chair can't handle my ass.

 

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16 hours ago, Strategic said:

Updated after 2 years of use, seems I need a new chair now. This chair can't handle my ass (my weight is 90kg).

 

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That looks more like fake-leather wearing off than actual weight issue. You can also see wear on arm-rests. Saying this from actual high-end office chair I bought used 15 years ago (my weight being 90-105kg). Granted, I have applied some leather conditioner at one time to it. And its just last year started to show signs of aging. Arm rests collapsing a bit, leather might need new coating of that conditioner, wheels need to be changed.

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12 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

That looks more like fake-leather wearing off than actual weight issue. You can also see wear on arm-rests. Saying this from actual high-end office chair I bought used 15 years ago (my weight being 90-105kg). Granted, I have applied some leather conditioner at one time to it. And its just last year started to show signs of aging. Arm rests collapsing a bit, leather might need new coating of that conditioner, wheels need to be changed.

The reason I'm updating it, because back then when I was searching for a nice comfortable chair. I never could find any proper before and after screenshots of after 2 years of moderate/heavy use and basically went blind  for already 4 times. 

 

My first and second chair I bought was from Staples like a 80-110 euro fake leather chair both wear off after 6 months making my room all messy with fake leather stuff on the floor. Obviously I kept using it for 1-1,5 year, because it was comfortable and didn't have the money to buy a new chair. Later on I used a PU-leather chair from germany, I don't remember the brand but it was a office chair and cost me €140-150 euros (yellow stripe in the middle and best comfort of all chairs) that one survived 1+ year and after that the fake leather started to fall off and after 2 years I replaced it with this chair.

 

So maxnomic chairs or chairs from needforseat.de are not good enough for me for the money I spent on it, considering it cost me around €400. I don't want to make the jump for a herman miller chair at €1000+ and second hand is as expensive in europe. So I will end up looking for a €200-400 chair that probably doesn't use fake leather at all. 

 

I might try noble chair with real leather or something else with real leather. Or choose one of the chairs that topped in gamersnexus chair review with the blue seat. 

 

 

  

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