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frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 11:36:56
October 08 2009 10:16 GMT
#1
Dodge razer products like THE FUCKING PEST

Made a thread about it earlier but as usual in a conflict of interest, TL staff closes any threads shedding light on Razer's horrible failure rate. (And a blog)

Apparently this kind of unwanted advertisement is only allowed in Blogs, just to make sure it doesn't get the exposure it should. This is a privately owned site, I have no say on the rules, but ain't it just THE RIGHT GODDAMN THING TO DO? Isn't the community what made this site the greatest? Razer surely ain't paying for every person posting here, so should we ban criticism because they give out 10k to a handful of players who make up less than 0.1% of the community? I'm not even slightly raged at Razer, I'm disappointed and I want to make sure people know about these issues before buying a Razer product, but I AM pretty amazed at how the TL staff will go out of it's way to delete these threads as quick as they appear.

This really aint a rage blog or a rant, it might seem like it here, but the original thread was very mild, constructive in it's criticism. I'm not mad raged, I'll go buy a IE3.0 or IO1.1 tomorrow. I am just HONESTLY warning people about Razer. You're taking a gamble. Your mice might work 5 years, but it might break the day after you bought it. "So fucking what", you'll say, "that could happen with any mice (or product for that matter)". True. Problem is Razer has by far the highest failure rate out of the major mice and gaming product companies. I've ordered two mice from Razer, both broke within 48 hours of me receiving them. In comparison, I've lasted 2 MX518's and a IE3.0 for over 2 years each and the G5 I had prior to this for about 2 as well. All of these mice went out from regular usage (left click dies over time, I'm a heavy pc user, poker+cs+schoolwork+others). When it comes to razer though, both mice died of manufacturing issues, the first had a USB failure, the other died during a firmware update (seriously razer? Wtf???).

Oh and getting a replacement for my 1st one was the worst customer service experience I've had, shit I was so pissed after it, I made an actual rage post in a TSL thread which got me banned 2 weeks. And of course I never managed to get that replacement.

Obviously, this time, the piece of shit is going straight to garbage, not gonna bother talking with the incompetent hacks I had to go through last time.

Anyways, remind yourself to label any mice-related opinion on TL as a load of bullshit, seeing how every post I've ever made about their products was either censored, locked or nuked. Makes you wonder how many others out there also reported having problems with their Razer hardware.

Save yourself a headache and some money, stick to MS/Logi.

IF YOU BOUGHT FAULTY RAZER PRODUCTS BEFORE, POST HERE
I'm trying to show the community, or at least the part I'll reach through this blog, that I didn't just invent Razer's failure rate, if you read forums for many other gaming communities, this has been reported over and over. Sadly, I am starting to believe that TL deletes and censors any form of visible criticism towards Razer. This is not just some raging nerd, it's the community making sure that next time someone is shopping for a mouse, they KNOW that they're taking a gamble, that their mouse might not work, and how razer's customer service treats it's customers. Call me a carebear, a nerd, I don't give a fuck, if no one cared, this whole community would be dead. Some of you post commentaries, other builds, fill in the Liquipedia or give software/hardware advice. Well if I can contribute anything to this community, it'll be saving a few dollars to gamers, who don't always sit on piles of cash.

*
Adeny
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Norway1233 Posts
October 08 2009 10:24 GMT
#2
You're trying to advertize a product on your website and you won't allow me to talk shit about it here.


Kindly fixed. Yes TL is probably razer-biased. One of TL's staff members works for razer damnit, get real.
Rice
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1332 Posts
October 08 2009 10:27 GMT
#3
I too have had 2 razer mice break within a week of buying them.(It was the razer copperhead and the only reason I bought the damned mouse twice is because previously I had a copperhead that lasted for 4+ years and was the best mouse ever).

Anyways, needless to say i'm done with razer and switched to logitech.
Freedom will be defended at the cost of civil liberties.
frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 10:38 GMT
#4
On October 08 2009 19:24 Adeny wrote:
Show nested quote +
You're trying to advertize a product on your website and you won't allow me to talk shit about it here.


Kindly fixed. Yes TL is probably razer-biased. One of TL's staff members works for razer damnit, get real.


I expect some bias ... but censoring criticism? I'm not talking shit, I'm warning people, whoever they may be and in a broader way, the community. Will everyone on TL read it? Of course not, but people will know and WHO KNOWS, maybe someone at Razer is reading and someday they'll up the quality... Although, if they're anything like Steelseries, Icemat or the other gaming peripheral brands out there, they probably buy it from a separate manufacturer (this is not fact for razer, I'm assuming this, but I know that many companies do this, mostly when it comes to audio products).

Talking shit would be something like that kid's review of the salmosa, calling it a piece of shit for no reason and basically bringing nothing smart except "it's got mouse prediction".
Kaniol
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Poland5551 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 10:39:36
October 08 2009 10:38 GMT
#5
I have Razer Diamondback, it is kinda faulty, because when you press LPM at the right Side of the front of the mouse it doesn't register that click.

But it's not a problem for me, because i use fingertip grip, and i press mid-left part of LPM, but everyone i know uses either claw or palm and they complain about my mouse not working.

Actually i wouldn't have discovered it if my friends didn't start complaining about my mouse
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
October 08 2009 10:39 GMT
#6
All of my razer products have worked perfectly fine for years.

Same for everyone I know offline that has purchased razer stuff.
BEARDiaguz
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Australia2362 Posts
October 08 2009 10:43 GMT
#7
I won a razer Destructor mousepad once. One time it caught on fire and my whole computer exploded. Man, fuck razer.

Actually, that didn't happen. The Destructor mat sits comfortably on my tabletop, and logitech can go fuck itself with a pair of rusty forks.
ProgamerAustralian alcohol user follow @iaguzSC2
So no fek
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3001 Posts
October 08 2009 10:52 GMT
#8
On October 08 2009 19:16 frankbg wrote:


Save yourself a headache and some money, stick to MS/Logi.




I wanted to address this in your closed thread, but obviously couldn't. I myself own a Razer mouse, the Diamondback. I've had it for two years now, and have never had a problem with it. You had a part in one of your topics for people like me, however, and I've never had a need to call their customer service, so I can't say anything there.

However, just saying stick to Logitech/MS doesn't really help. Just as Razer products may experience problems, so do other products put out by competitors. I've had the same problems with Logitech as you've had with Razer. I've been through six of their USB headsets in three years, and it wasn't due to neglect. I've also had my G11 for two years and don't care for it. I've had a few problems with the keys jamming up and having to remove and reset them. Logitech support kind of sucks, but their saving grace is in returns. I've been able to get a replacement headset or two, if I had my receipt, as it was still under warranty.

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intrigue
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Washington, D.C9933 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 10:59:03
October 08 2009 10:54 GMT
#9
it's weird, i see razer complaints everywhere online but everyone i know with a razer mouse is a huge fan. i own a razer krait myself and i think it's amazing. my biggest gripe with razer products is that they are notoriously short-lived (the only thing i can relate to from razer online reviews); it's only been 3-4 years and this mouse is starting to glitch. still hard to deny how sick these mice are when they work as intended though.

also, what's up with the passive aggressive jabs at the moderators? the previous versions of this thread were not closed because we nitpicked at 'technicalities,' and certainly not closed 'as usual' because of 'conflicts of interest.' please believe me, staff here are not that petty. see for yourself - find an open rant op in general, any thread with all caps, or any user unreasonably banned for the sole reason of having differing opinions. it's merely quality assurance! don't take it personally.
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frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 10:55 GMT
#10
On October 08 2009 19:43 iaguz wrote:
I won a razer Destructor mousepad once. One time it caught on fire and my whole computer exploded. Man, fuck razer.

Actually, that didn't happen. The Destructor mat sits comfortably on my tabletop, and logitech can go fuck itself with a pair of rusty forks.


It's hard to break a mousepad =/ If it wasn't for the fact that I just won't personally buy Razer products anymore, pads are probably the only thing I might go for, provided I found a pad I'm comfortable with in their product line. Like 3/5 guys on my old 1.6 LAN team used their pads. Two of them also had DA's who lasted quite some time.
zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15325 Posts
October 08 2009 10:55 GMT
#11
On October 08 2009 19:16 frankbg wrote:
Problem is Razer has by far the highest failure rate out of the major mice and gaming product companies.

Do you have anything to back this up?
ModeratorI know Teamliquid is known as a massive building
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27139 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 11:01:47
October 08 2009 10:59 GMT
#12
Nail yourself to a cross you useless goup. If you could write intelligent well thought out posts you wouldn't have this problem. Instead you paint the entire site and staff with the same broad brush and rage on your keyboard like a WoW chimp. Your cause or opinion doesn't matter if you can't be decent about it.

That is what gets your shit banned, it has nothing to do with razer.

edit - other staff is so much nicer than I am. I'm going to afk and let them deal with it.
ModeratorGodfather
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
October 08 2009 11:02 GMT
#13
On October 08 2009 19:55 zatic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 08 2009 19:16 frankbg wrote:
Problem is Razer has by far the highest failure rate out of the major mice and gaming product companies.

Do you have anything to back this up?


I wanted to point this out too.
Liquid`Nazgul
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
22427 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 11:05:09
October 08 2009 11:04 GMT
#14
On October 08 2009 19:16 frankbg wrote:
*Hopefully there is no technicality in the rules that'll allow another mod to delete this post.
*

Dodge razer products like THE FUCKING PEST

Made a thread about it earlier but as usual in a conflict of interest, TL staff closes any threads shedding light on Razer's horrible failure rate. (And a blog)

Your thread was called "To Razer/Fakesteve" and located in the general forum. Contained 100% your own personal experience coupled with angry ranting. No matter the subject that's never going to be appropriate in our general forum. There is zero bias in closing it and telling you to blog it. Then instead of blogging that post you blog a new rant full of inaccurate conspiracies with a capslocked title. Now I am confused whether you do this on purpose to piss us off so that we will close your post again in order for you to rant about conspiracy a bit more, or whether you are genuinely unaware of the terrible quality of your posts.


Apparently this kind of unwanted advertisement is only allowed in Blogs, just to make sure it doesn't get the exposure it should. This is a privately owned site, I have no say on the rules, but ain't it just THE RIGHT GODDAMN THING TO DO? Isn't the community what made this site the greatest? Razer surely ain't paying for every person posting here, so should we ban criticism because they give out 10k to a handful of players who make up less than 0.1% of the community? I'm not even slightly raged at Razer, I'm disappointed and I want to make sure people know about these issues before buying a Razer product, but I AM pretty amazed at how the TL staff will go out of it's way to delete these threads as quick as they appear.

Open a topic in the general forum that isn't a rant next time and see what will happen? The problem is your topic isn't a discussion it is the statement of fact that Razer sucks balls simply because you as an individual have had 2 bad experiences with it. If your topic was about logitech it would have been closed and if it was about anything else it would have been closed as well. You need to take a step back and breath and take a good look at who is doing what.


This really aint a rage blog or a rant, it might seem like it here, but the original thread was very mild, constructive in it's criticism. I'm not mad raged, I'll go buy a IE3.0 or IO1.1 tomorrow. I am just HONESTLY warning people about Razer. You're taking a gamble. Your mice might work 5 years, but it might break the day after you bought it. "So fucking what", you'll say, "that could happen with any mice (or product for that matter)". True. Problem is Razer has by far the highest failure rate out of the major mice and gaming product companies. I've ordered two mice from Razer, both broke within 48 hours of me receiving them. In comparison, I've lasted 2 MX518's and a IE3.0 for over 2 years each and the G5 I had prior to this for about 2 as well. All of these mice went out from regular usage (left click dies over time, I'm a heavy pc user, poker+cs+schoolwork+others). When it comes to razer though, both mice died of manufacturing issues, the first had a USB failure, the other died during a firmware update (seriously razer? Wtf???).

You clearly have different definition of what is a rant. However your definition is the opinion of 1 and ours is what has been used on TL for 7 years. If you open a topic in general telling Fakesteve to tell Razer to stop shipping faulty products do you think that is constructive? Do you actually see Fakesteve going up to his boss and going "hey.. yeah so this one guy told me to tell you to stop shipping faulty products".

Yeah, I did it again, after being scammed once (a little over a year ago) and having to deal with a broken mouse within 48 of receiving it and never actually being able to get it replaced thanks to razer's AMAZING CUSTOMER SERVICE , I got over my razer hate and my fear of gaming companies and their shitty product quality and bought a DeathAdder, as many of my gaming friends use it for FPS.

Is this mild? Is this constructive? You received two faulty products and insinuate that Razer is a bunch of scammers. It's nothing but inaccurate misinformation couple with angry ranting.
Sponsor TSL all you want with prizes for 2-3 gamers, paid by the purchases of thousands of gamers, many on a tight budget, who you sell your shitty products to, but I swear to god I will make sure to let every gamer I know (I write for an eSports website lol), how fucking horrible every Razer experience I've had turned out.

Mild? Constructive?

but I'll be damned if they don't have the highest failure rate of any gaming company out there.

Fact? Rant? Mild? Constructive?


Oh and getting a replacement for my 1st one was the worst customer service experience I've had, shit I was so pissed after it, I made an actual rage post in a TSL thread which got me banned 2 weeks. And of course I never managed to get that replacement.

Obviously, this time, the piece of shit is going straight to garbage, not gonna bother talking with the incompetent hacks I had to go through last time.

Anyways, remind yourself to label any mice-related opinion on TL as a load of bullshit, seeing how every post I've ever made about their products was either censored, locked or nuked. Makes you wonder how many others out there also reported having problems with their Razer hardware.

Save yourself a headache and some money, stick to MS/Logi.

IF YOU BOUGHT FAULTY RAZER PRODUCTS BEFORE, POST HERE
I'm trying to show the community, or at least the part I'll reach through this blog, that I didn't just invent Razer's failure rate, if you read forums for many other gaming communities, this has been reported over and over. Sadly, I am starting to believe that TL deletes and censors any form of visible criticism towards Razer. This is not just some raging nerd, it's the community making sure that next time someone is shopping for a mouse, they KNOW that they're taking a gamble, that their mouse might not work, and how razer's customer service treats it's customers. Call me a carebear, a nerd, I don't give a fuck, if no one cared, this whole community would be dead. Some of you post commentaries, other builds, fill in the Liquipedia or give software/hardware advice. Well if I can contribute anything to this community, it'll be saving a few dollars to gamers, who don't always sit on piles of cash.

I think I've made my point. Continue with the unfounded insults towards TL based on absolutely nothing and you will be out of here soon.
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frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 11:04 GMT
#15
On October 08 2009 19:54 intrigue wrote:
it's weird, i see razer complaints everywhere online but everyone i know with a razer mouse is a huge fan. i own a razer krait myself and i think it's amazing. my biggest gripe with razer products is that they are notoriously short-lived; it's only been 3-4 years and this mouse is starting to glitch. still hard to deny how sick these mice are when they work as intended though.

also, what's up with the passive aggressive jabs at the moderators? the previous versions of this thread were not closed because we nitpicked at 'technicalities,' and certainly not closed 'as usual' because of 'conflicts of interest.' please believe me, staff here are not that petty. see for yourself - find an open rant op in general, or any thread with all caps.


My OP in the General forum was not allcaps and was not a rant. It was a mild mannered criticism and somewhat similar to this, minus the censorship part, as I thought that was probably just due to the TSL happening at the time of my previous issues with Razer products. My other blog was not allcaps either, only the title was, you're right though, I've never seen an allcaps title, I thought mods could simply edit that, instead it got nuked. Given the content wasn't great, I didn't feel like typing up all of this again. Ended up doing so because I believe this could be helpful to some people.

You're also right about these being sick when they do work. That's never been my issue, as I said, they are amazing products when they work, but they seem to have a very high failure rate (not related to regular use). On top of this Razer's customer support is subpar when compared to others in the peripheral market.

If your Razer stuff worked well, you can post as well, we might get a gross approximate of what the actual rate looks like, but coming from an FPS background, I see and hear complaints about these issues alot. (Maybe because a very large fringe of the community uses Razer/Steelseries products, whereas I recon that the SC community is very much attached to the mini optical by logitech and I wouldn't be surprised if we had a larger % of Razer users in competitive FPS communities, just look at SA/SF in Korea). Plus the CS worldwide playerbase is still much larger than the SC playerbase. (Will change very soon with SC2 though, regardless of how it succeeds in Korea, it'll surely overtake CS in pure player base, probably as well as in terms of competitive player base)
frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 11:09 GMT
#16
On October 08 2009 19:59 Manifesto7 wrote:
Nail yourself to a cross you useless goup. If you could write intelligent well thought out posts you wouldn't have this problem. Instead you paint the entire site and staff with the same broad brush and rage on your keyboard like a WoW chimp. Your cause or opinion doesn't matter if you can't be decent about it.

That is what gets your shit banned, it has nothing to do with razer.

edit - other staff is so much nicer than I am. I'm going to afk and let them deal with it.


Are you kidding me? "If you could write intelligent well thought out posts"

For what, for you to delete them? I'm not gonna bring out my credentials because my writing standards here are obviously not the same from where I work, but let's just leave it at the level that I am in a head position, in charge of many staff writers, at a decently sized eSports coverage organization.

I won't gift you with an essay for you to take it off, why the fuck would I?
Liquid`Nazgul
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
22427 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 11:12:21
October 08 2009 11:11 GMT
#17
My other blog was not allcaps either, only the title was, you're right though, I've never seen an allcaps title, I thought mods could simply edit that, instead it got nuked. Given the content wasn't great, I didn't feel like typing up all of this again.

Maybe you shouldn't be so goddamn quick to jump the gun. Apparently you have been around TL for such a brief (surprisingly it's over a year) period that you don't know which topics belong in general. But also you don't know of our closed forum where people can find their closed threads and usually the reasons for closing it.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=103307
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=103303

For what, for you to delete them? I'm not gonna bring out my credentials because my writing standards here are obviously not the same from where I work, but let's just leave it at the level that I am in a head position, in charge of many staff writers, at a decently sized eSports coverage organization.

No one is deleting shit. This is when you start apologizing.
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frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 11:19 GMT
#18
On October 08 2009 20:11 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
Show nested quote +
My other blog was not allcaps either, only the title was, you're right though, I've never seen an allcaps title, I thought mods could simply edit that, instead it got nuked. Given the content wasn't great, I didn't feel like typing up all of this again.

Maybe you shouldn't be so goddamn quick to jump the gun. Apparently you have been around TL for such a brief (surprisingly it's over a year) period that you don't know which topics belong in general. But also you don't know of our closed forum where people can find their closed threads and usually the reasons for closing it.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=103307
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=103303


Show nested quote +
For what, for you to delete them? I'm not gonna bring out my credentials because my writing standards here are obviously not the same from where I work, but let's just leave it at the level that I am in a head position, in charge of many staff writers, at a decently sized eSports coverage organization.

No one is deleting shit. This is when you start apologizing.


Moving to "Closed" is pretty much Deleting/Nuking/Closing ... Regardless of how you want to call it, "You're taking it off".

You can move to closed, but you cant move it to blogs or edit titles? Btw, I'm not bringing a conspiracy up, I'm saying it's odd that I've had replies where I didn't exactly use gloves that never got any attention, whereas pretty much every post, thread reply or comment I've made concerning razer has been taken off.
frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 11:21 GMT
#19
And now my blog's hijacked and no one's actually gonna post anything about Razer products, nice.
zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15325 Posts
October 08 2009 11:24 GMT
#20
On October 08 2009 20:21 frankbg wrote:
And now my blog's hijacked and no one's actually gonna post anything about Razer products, nice.

Since half your blog is about TL moderation it's not hijacked at all. Still, care to answer my previous question?
ModeratorI know Teamliquid is known as a massive building
So no fek
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States3001 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 11:27:52
October 08 2009 11:26 GMT
#21
In all fairness, your blog would be on track if you had just dodged all the "Hopefully this isn't violating any rules and gets closed" statements. If you had just made it the content of your first topic, in the right section, people would probably discuss the matter. Instead, you had to jab at the mods, and get them to defend themselves, thus detracting from your topic.

I personally think that it wouldn't have been a big deal to move the topic from General to Blog (if they can do that, I'm not sure if blogs are technically different from other sub-forums, and can't be moved), but it was their call to close the first topic. Regardless, if they don't close topics, or make mention of it, and do it all for you, people will never learn. It wouldn't have been hard at all for you to just directly copy/paste your first topic into blogs.

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frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 11:32 GMT
#22
On October 08 2009 19:55 zatic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 08 2009 19:16 frankbg wrote:
Problem is Razer has by far the highest failure rate out of the major mice and gaming product companies.

Do you have anything to back this up?


10 years of being involved in the eSports business, Razer don't really publish numbers when it comes to this Plus, I'm sure many of those who got faulty products did what I did today, silently went back to a competitor, at least from Razer's perspective. Like I said, won't deal with them anymore. But during the years since Razer has been around, I've heard about and experienced some pretty high failure rates.

Unless Razer customers are the only who post, I don't know for you, but when it comes to MICE, you don't see a ton of people complaining about Logitech or Microsoft, do you? (At least with mice, maybe not other products). Plus, speaking from personnal experience, Logitech always shipped me a new replacement mouse as long as I was within warranty. It was a no-hassle experience, didn't even have to ship my old mouse back, they ran a few tests with me (5 mins), took the Serial, my address and shipping took roughly a week ...
RyuriaL
Profile Joined November 2008
Singapore78 Posts
October 08 2009 11:40 GMT
#23
/rant/ no?
frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 11:55:01
October 08 2009 11:46 GMT
#24
Just googling it will get you a ton of results too:

http://forums.enemydown.co.uk/showthread.php?t=84824

http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&forum=107&threadid=1412617&product_id=22343&forumid=107&pcbuilderid=0

whole 6 page thread with tons of posts about issues with both software compatibility and high hardware failure rate
http://www.aionsource.com/forum/aion-discussion/37666-razer-giveaway-live-feed-yet-gameguard-blocks-them.html

http://ariekanarie.nl/archives/18/razer-deathadder-troubles
Quint
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
467 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 11:50:42
October 08 2009 11:47 GMT
#25
On October 08 2009 20:32 frankbg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 08 2009 19:55 zatic wrote:
On October 08 2009 19:16 frankbg wrote:
Problem is Razer has by far the highest failure rate out of the major mice and gaming product companies.

Do you have anything to back this up?


10 years of being involved in the eSports business


Is that you, Kennigit?

Edit:

On October 08 2009 20:46 frankbg wrote:
Just googling it will get you a ton of results too:

http://forums.enemydown.co.uk/showthread.php?t=84824
http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&forum=107&threadid=1412617&product_id=22343&forumid=107&pcbuilderid=0


How does prove the "by far highest failure rate out of the major mice and gaming product companies"?
Jopz
Profile Joined January 2008
United States262 Posts
October 08 2009 11:54 GMT
#26
On October 08 2009 20:46 frankbg wrote:
Just googling it will get you a ton of results too:

http://forums.enemydown.co.uk/showthread.php?t=84824
http://forum.ncix.com/forums/index.php?mode=showthread&forum=107&threadid=1412617&product_id=22343&forumid=107&pcbuilderid=0


Hmmm but you see the thing is googling just about anything will get you a ton of results.
Moloch
Profile Joined June 2008
Canada222 Posts
October 08 2009 11:56 GMT
#27
My first Razer product lasted approximately a year and a half. It was a nice Diamondback and I really enjoyed it until I dropped a desk on it while I was moving (purely accidental). Since I enjoyed the first one, I bought another one which has worked absolutely perfectly for over a year now.

Every company has failure rates. Working in retail showed me that no matter what it is, or how good the company's reputation is, some of the product will be defective out of the box. I've seen it with Logitech and Microsoft mice. We've had dozens of G15s (Okay, it's a keyboard. but it still counts) not work straight out of the box, but that doesn't mean that Logitech is terrible at making keyboards (I bought and love my G15).

I'm just trying to say that Razer isn't all that terrible.
frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 11:59 GMT
#28
On October 08 2009 20:56 The_Master wrote:
My first Razer product lasted approximately a year and a half. It was a nice Diamondback and I really enjoyed it until I dropped a desk on it while I was moving (purely accidental). Since I enjoyed the first one, I bought another one which has worked absolutely perfectly for over a year now.

Every company has failure rates. Working in retail showed me that no matter what it is, or how good the company's reputation is, some of the product will be defective out of the box. I've seen it with Logitech and Microsoft mice. We've had dozens of G15s (Okay, it's a keyboard. but it still counts) not work straight out of the box, but that doesn't mean that Logitech is terrible at making keyboards (I bought and love my G15).

I'm just trying to say that Razer isn't all that terrible.


Except replacing a product with Logitech is a pleasurable experience, close to orgasm, whereas calling Razer is somewhat like getting a vasectomy WHILE having a prostate exam.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51418 Posts
October 08 2009 12:04 GMT
#29
I replaced my Logitech MX310 with a Razer Diamondback 2 years ago.

If this Razer breaks, I'll probably buy another Razer.
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Moloch
Profile Joined June 2008
Canada222 Posts
October 08 2009 12:12 GMT
#30
On October 08 2009 20:59 frankbg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 08 2009 20:56 The_Master wrote:
My first Razer product lasted approximately a year and a half. It was a nice Diamondback and I really enjoyed it until I dropped a desk on it while I was moving (purely accidental). Since I enjoyed the first one, I bought another one which has worked absolutely perfectly for over a year now.

Every company has failure rates. Working in retail showed me that no matter what it is, or how good the company's reputation is, some of the product will be defective out of the box. I've seen it with Logitech and Microsoft mice. We've had dozens of G15s (Okay, it's a keyboard. but it still counts) not work straight out of the box, but that doesn't mean that Logitech is terrible at making keyboards (I bought and love my G15).

I'm just trying to say that Razer isn't all that terrible.


Except replacing a product with Logitech is a pleasurable experience, close to orgasm, whereas calling Razer is somewhat like getting a vasectomy WHILE having a prostate exam.


If replacing Razer products with Logitech ones was THAT good, I'm sure there'd be a movement to buy all razer gear and one-by-one replace it with Logitech. Once the word spread, Razer's warehouses would be sold out in seconds. People would line up to buy Logitech's new items, just waiting for the moment they've dreamed of - the moment of replacing their Razer mouse.... and then it would end - like waking up suddenly after a good dream. They'd continue on with their lives using their G9x, but some would realize they actually preferred their Deathadder and start using it again

Also, I've actually never gotten a vasectomy while having a prostate exam nor have I had to call Razer before either, so I cannot comment on your second analogy.
REDBLUEGREEN
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Germany1903 Posts
October 08 2009 12:13 GMT
#31
On October 08 2009 19:16 frankbg wrote:
I've ordered two mice from Razer, both broke within 48 hours of me receiving them. In comparison, I've lasted 2 MX518's and a IE3.0 for over 2 years each and the G5 I had prior to this for about 2 as well.

lol dude are you like an angry little nerd that rages when he get's dt dropped or fragged in cs and starts smashing his mouse? because i had 2 mice since i started to use pcs 9 years ago, first a standart microsoft ball-mouse and now since like 5 years an optical logitech mouse. the ms mouse was not broken when i brought the logitech mouse, i just wanted to switch to an optical mouse....So wtf do you do with your mouse?
SwEEt[TearS]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1575 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 12:16:11
October 08 2009 12:15 GMT
#32
Still waiting on FakeSteve to come and destroy this thread somehow...

On-topic: my friend had a Razer mouse for nearly 5 years, I bought one about a year ago and it still works as good as it did when I bought it. seriously, unless you have real statistics to prove that Razer is worse than Logi/MS, there's no way for you to prove it wasn't just you being extremely unlucky.

oh, and lol @ "I have writing credentials but I won't use them because I'm too busy raging"
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Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
October 08 2009 12:20 GMT
#33
I have a razer pro | click 1.6 mouse that looks kinda like a white diamondback. Very happy with it so far.

The problem with your post - it lacks any facts, and is generally a load of incoherent garbage, so no wonder you can expect it to get closed down.
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
October 08 2009 12:21 GMT
#34
Only game I ever played where I cared about being competitive is StarCraft, so I just use any old mouse. Super mice are for a different breed of nerd. People in this thread, do you play a lot of FPS in addition to StarCraft?

I guess if you're going to buy an expensive electronic with high failure rate, you should try to get a warranty. Personally I have really bad luck with cameras. Whenever I buy one, no matter what brand it malfunctions day one and I have to return it. And yet if I borrow someone's camera I can use it perfectly, even up to being the same model (so I don't really think it's me just being retarded).

I blame the supernatural.
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frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 12:26 GMT
#35
On October 08 2009 21:13 REDBLUEGREEN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 08 2009 19:16 frankbg wrote:
I've ordered two mice from Razer, both broke within 48 hours of me receiving them. In comparison, I've lasted 2 MX518's and a IE3.0 for over 2 years each and the G5 I had prior to this for about 2 as well.

lol dude are you like an angry little nerd that rages when he get's dt dropped or fragged in cs and starts smashing his mouse? because i had 2 mice since i started to use pcs 9 years ago, first a standart microsoft ball-mouse and now since like 5 years an optical logitech mouse. the ms mouse was not broken when i brought the logitech mouse, i just wanted to switch to an optical mouse....So wtf do you do with your mouse?


Haha, no, I'm just a heavy user, plus I decided to replace my G5 because the skates we're getting used up, although I'm mainly a poker player nowadays and don't game as much as I did, I still play enough FPS that I felt like I should look into a new mouse. Since I've tried a teammate's DA at LAN and knew it felt comfortable, I thought I'd switch. Plus, my good ole '03 DKT Pad is so used up, I thought I'd switch that as well, combined shipping, got me a DA. Then this.
frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 12:30 GMT
#36
On October 08 2009 21:15 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:
Still waiting on FakeSteve to come and destroy this thread somehow...

On-topic: my friend had a Razer mouse for nearly 5 years, I bought one about a year ago and it still works as good as it did when I bought it. seriously, unless you have real statistics to prove that Razer is worse than Logi/MS, there's no way for you to prove it wasn't just you being extremely unlucky.

oh, and lol @ "I have writing credentials but I won't use them because I'm too busy raging"


Because Razer publishes numbers, right?

Lol all you want, how do you even "use credentials" anyways? Mani said that I "couldn't write coherently". I simply said I wouldn't mention my credentials because I don't pay attention to structure or put specific emphasis on my writing when I post here. It's more of a casual thing. On top of that, I like being anonymous here and to me that's worth keeping my identity to myself, regardless of how much credibility I may lose here. TL is huge in foreign SC, but on the global eSports scene, it isn't like my TL alias' credibility was a big threat to what I do.
frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 12:32 GMT
#37
On October 08 2009 21:20 Sadistx wrote:
I have a razer pro | click 1.6 mouse that looks kinda like a white diamondback. Very happy with it so far.

The problem with your post - it lacks any facts, and is generally a load of incoherent garbage, so no wonder you can expect it to get closed down.


Yeah, my mouse breaking wasn't fact, the threads I linked where people complained about the same issue and reported also hearing about high failure rates didn't exist.

It's all in my imagination.

While I've got your attention, may I recommend putting down the pipe when you read blogs, maybe it'll feel a bit more coherent.
Foucault
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Sweden2826 Posts
October 08 2009 12:50 GMT
#38
I can understand that you are pissed frankbg, but take this up with Razer directly and not TL, because TL isn't responsible for the failure of your mice.
I know that deep inside of you there's a humongous set of testicles just waiting to pop out. Let 'em pop bro. //////////////////// AKA JensOfSweden // Lee Yoon Yeol forever.
frankbg
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Canada335 Posts
October 08 2009 13:16 GMT
#39
On October 08 2009 21:50 Foucault wrote:
I can understand that you are pissed frankbg, but take this up with Razer directly and not TL, because TL isn't responsible for the failure of your mice.


I'll just assume it's late where you live and you haven't read the thread.
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27139 Posts
October 08 2009 13:44 GMT
#40
Im back. Youre still an asshole. Good night.
ModeratorGodfather
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
October 08 2009 13:49 GMT
#41
ahhahaha
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
October 08 2009 13:49 GMT
#42
My razer mouse has been working fine for over 3 years. The samsung mouse I had before worked great but the scroll wheel broke after about 6 years.

You see people complain more about razer because it's a specialised gaming brand name. If someone's microsoft or logitech mouse breaks they're much more likely to just "meh" and get another one.
No I'm never serious.
Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27139 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-08 14:38:16
October 08 2009 13:52 GMT
#43
Just so everybody is super clear on this, you can make a post criticizing anything on TL. What you cannot do is make it badly. You can also not call out individuals who may work for those companies. You also cannot claim big conspiracies about sponsors and websites that are groundless. You also cannot have been an asshole about the exact same issue in the past.

This donk is banned because he didn't understand these things.
ModeratorGodfather
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
October 08 2009 18:37 GMT
#44
WOAH.

The new manifesto icon. wtf
SwEEt[TearS]
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1575 Posts
October 08 2009 21:46 GMT
#45
On October 08 2009 22:44 Manifesto7 wrote:
Im back. Youre still an asshole. Good night.


hahaha he was looking for it
Mani lays down the law!
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KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42430 Posts
October 09 2009 15:45 GMT
#46
lol
"I could make decent arguments but I don't see the point when you're going to ban me anyway (for spouting crap) so instead I'm just gonna spout crap."

I can't help but feel there's some kind of logical flaw in that which he missed.
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madnessman
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States1581 Posts
October 09 2009 15:48 GMT
#47
IF YOU BOUGHT FAULTY RAZER PRODUCTS BEFORE, POST HERE


my razer krait works just fine thank you very much. it's been working for the past 2ish years now.
Ro[]t
Profile Joined July 2008
Sweden147 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-09 17:06:01
October 09 2009 16:57 GMT
#48
Had one diamondback that broke in about a month, went back to the store got a new one that was five years ago and I'm still using it and loving it <3

as a side note googleing:

Razer failure resulted in 288 000 hits and
Razer broken gave 631 000 hits while
Logitech failure gave 555 000 hits and
Logitech broken gave 866 000 hits....
OreoBoi
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada1639 Posts
October 09 2009 17:30 GMT
#49
Razer is awesome, it keeps me from having a silly moustache. Oh wait, that's razor
Razer is awesome, I text people with it. Oh wait, that's RAZR
I've never bought a razer product, but I bought a microsoft mouse once, and it wouldn't even work out of the box. At least you got 1 day use out of it. That's infinitly times the amount of time I used my microsoft mouse.
hugitout
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States379 Posts
October 09 2009 23:25 GMT
#50
had a copperhead before, the buttons started malfunctioning after a few months have not bought one since, never will, but i have been using a razer mousepad for a long time which is very good and i would recommend
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