Fuck Logitech - The erstwhile kings of peripherals now only sell garbage and I'm sad

[Fae Supremacist]

Maybe they've cheapened out on the newer ones?

Looking into it, apparently the first Hero editions had the paracord, they cheapened them out later.
Sucks I didn't get the old stock I guess.

 

[Törni]

Looking into it, apparently the first Hero editions had the paracord, they cheapened them out later.
Sucks I didn't get the old stock I guess.

Just bought my second Hero a couple months back. First one had paracord but the scroll wheel corroded to shit and laser had some movement on its own. The sceond one is this horrible plastic shit cord and the tray on the bottom barely stays put after putting all the weights in. At least the scroll wheel doesn't seem to be same corroding away shit that the first one had.

 

[Kyuruma]

Been using a G703 for over 5 years now, I'm a Diablo style skinner box game addict so the left click was obviously the first to go. After replacing that the mouse has held up beautifully with my sinful couch PC gaming escapades.

I will never forgive them for killing their Harmony products, though. The Harmony Elite is such a wonderfully versatile remote but it didn't look good enough on paper for them or something, who cares just BRING IT BACK COWARDS.

 

[Lady Adjani]

Currently still using the G600 which is a fantastic MMO mouse

despite the mouse being one of their best sellers they ceased production a couple of years back

 

[Kosher Dill]

This thread is a bit late considering Logitech's last good product was released in 1990.

 

[I'm Retarded?]

Logitech is shit, Razer is shit, MMO mice are shit, all the recommendations in this thread are shit. Glorious is the only good peripheral manufacturer. buy one of these.

 

[The Ugly One]

As a true gamer, I knew how to game:


Apparently, this is now a quarter century ago, making me feel really old. They keyboard was solid, and the mouse was excellent. Imagine having your mouse not shit itself every couple hours as the ball & wheels get gummed up with filth from your desk! Imagine being able to control Winamp with buttons on your keyboard! However, this was also the era when Microsoft decided it was acceptable to release an updated to Windows that turned a screaming fast Pentium IV with a whopping 512 MB of RAM into a sludge bucket when it wasn't blue-screening, and NVIDIA decided that every second update of Detonator would break all your games. Also, around this time, Apple announced it was scrapping its shitpile OS9 and adopting a BSD-based operating system. I switched to Sony for my gaming and Apple for my work, and was quite happy.

Eventually, though, Sony forgot what games are, as the PS4 was a massive joke with a lackluster library, Microsoft figured out how to make an operating system run for a whole entire hour without bluescreening, and GPUs seemed to generally work with games. With Modern Warfare 2019's cross-play, I finally made the jump back to PC. It had been around 15 years. Of course, I'd need some fancy gaming headphones. I'd had a nice pair of Sharkoons for my PS3, but they were pretty beat up after years of Killzone 2 and Black Ops. So I turned to the king of PC peripherals from the olden days, Logitech.

I think this is them. As though I was crawling out of a time capsule, I bought my headphones at Best Buy, just like I did in 2001, so I don't remember the model number. But just look at these bad boys!



7.1 surround, wireless signal, gamer LEDs for maximum gamer performance, and thick padding all around A true gamer also needs the best of keyboard & mouse technology, and being a true gamer from the olden days who doesn't know what YouTube reviews are, I knew it was as simple as buying good Logitech equipment.



I gotta tell you, this was so much cooler than my old setup. Everything is wireless, it all looks sleek, and boy howdy, I am totally ready to get called a nigger by 12-year-olds in Call of Duty now!

Anyway, within a couple months, pieces were falling off my headphones, the volume knob had quit doing anything except increase loudness (even when you rolled it down), the scroll wheel on the mouse no longer worked, and in perhaps the most stunning display of technological regression I have ever seen, if you pressed the keys on the keyboard at slightly the wrong angle, they somehow managed to find infinite frictional force to repel you and not budge a micron.

So yes, fuck Logitech, it's Chinesium crap. I switched out everything for Steelseries, which had utterly broken drivers and shit mouse quality, then switched again to Corsair, and finally, I've got peripherals that are still working after 90 days.

 

[Miller]

The company turned to shit when they thought that "logi" was a better name.
I have a G305, it's fine for gayming too.

 

[Battlefield42]

I have had HyperX Pulsefire Core for years now. No problems so far and remembers the config you programmed onto it if you uninstall the software.

 

[Combustion Engine]

Fuck Logitech.

Logikek uses shitty chink switches and combines that with their incompetence at engineering hardware, there's a video exploring those issues and explaining how they came to be. Unfortunately it's not just them. Want a solution? Pay more for optical switches that some companies have started adopting because the double-click plague has gotten that bad. Your new mice are going to melt in your hands or break in some other way no matter what anyway, don't worry.

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

This is the ideal optical USB mouse.
You may not like it, but this is what peak *clicky-clicky* looks like:

 

[ghastlyretard]

Currently still using the G600 which is a fantastic MMO mouse

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despite the mouse being one of their best sellers they ceased production a couple of years back

I miss mine. The Razer Naga is a decent replacement though. And you can swap out the side buttons when you get tired of explaining why you need a whole ass numpad on your mouse.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

A clickable scroll wheel is in no way an actual useful replacement for a middle mouse button.

 

[annex]

Their MX Ergo mouse is genuienly one of the best ergonomic mice out there since you can actually adjust it, but heres the key issue, you cannot use USB, you have to use bluetooth which is uniornically cancer especially if you have connection issues (like I did before I switched to another mouse). Also anyone who suggests the MX Master series are shills, genuienly one of my biggest regrets was purchasing one since it's fucking horrible to use and acts like an litmus test for larpers who like to act like they know everything about ergonomics.

 

[ZMOT]

This thread is a bit late considering Logitech's last good product was released in 1990.

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[Cougar Pump]

This thread is a bit late considering Logitech's last good product was released in 1990.

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They made that through to about 99 I think, there were a lot of Compaq branded versions of it shipped with corporate PCs that would show up places for years afterwards. For a while after they made the Wingman Gaming Mouse, and a gay force feedback one that was attached to a mousepad, you could still get those up to the early 2000s. idk if any internals were different to the beige non-gaming version but it was an excellent mouse for FPS games if you could get past the lack of scrollwheel. The three-finger wide grip made for excellent stability.
I think I graduated to the Mouseman Dual Optical after that, another forgotten gem. The sensors beat the shit out of ball mice but the shape was nowhere near as good. An optical, wireless, modern version of the Wingman would be amazing.

 

[Clown College 2nd Year]

I put many an hour into gaming with this guy right here. Those were the days Kiwis those were the days.

Although I do currently use a G610 KB with Browns for daily usage. For an all-plastic keyboard it's held up well these last 8years.

 

[jONALD]

Step aside you tiny freaks. My love for the Elecom HUGE can not be beat. Why bother moving your hand and wrist with the risk of carpal tunnel when you can enjoy it staying in one place while being a king in a lazyboy recliner as a computer chair.

 

[Seasoned News Reporter]

View attachment 6954363Step aside you tiny freaks. My love for the Elecom HUGE can not be beat. Why bother moving your hand and wrist with the risk of carpal tunnel when you can enjoy it staying in one place while being a king in a lazyboy recliner as a computer chair.

How are their thumb variants? I'm currently using a logitech MX ergo plus because it's the only mouse of theirs that doesn't feel like it wants to melt or fall apart and also to try to avoid carpal tunnel. If the thumb ball is still bad in that department than what makes the fingerball better in that regard? I'm a bit interested in elecoms products so I'm curious.

 

[Carpe Jugulum]

My logitech speakers are over fifteen years old and still going strong.

Nothing else has lasted half that (save a keyboard that’s about six years old on the spare PC but certain keys stick sometimes). I wish stuff lasted like it used to.