After almost 5 products of Roccat Gaming peripherals i have to say: Roccat you really suck super hard! Why? Go figure and listen.
First: The Quality of your products i bought sux. Period.
I bought 3 mice, Pyra, Kone+ and Kova+. All materials and overall build are totally crap, compared to any other “quality” stuff from e.g. Logitech or (for some products) Microsoft.
You call your sick crap: Gamer High End Equipment. Are you crazy? After only 2 weeks intense use, the glue of the side rubber elements called “Griptech solid rubber side grips” was pouring out of the Pyra and i had it smeared on my fingers. Not nice, because it is not recommended to get my skin in contact with such chemicals. The build quality of the Kone+ was a mere disaster. Dirt cheap plastic crap, extremely loud left and right mouse buttons. After just 4 weeks the mouse wheel died finally. Broken. First, after 3 weeks it started “jumping around” uncontrolled. You can read about the mouse wheel problem all over the net. Use Google. Finally the Kova+. Basically it “feels” better than the Kone+, but as with the Pyra, after some weeks of power gaming, this mouse had the same problem with your Griptech rubber side grips and the adhesive.
I read on your website: “Roccat is the snow storm to the gaming industry. Everything called gaming before needs to be redefined. You will enter a world in which three attributes will keep you on the right path: alliance, independence and truth.” This phrase is no marketing speech – it ist simply a barefaced lie. We gamers pay you a lot of money for your so called “gaming products”. Finally we end up with expensive crap of subpar build quality. Roccat products? Never ever again! Never.
Alternatives: Difficult to find. Why? Because obviously many manufacturers may think, that we gamers are retarded anyway and buying anything with a fancy “gaming” look. The best mouse i ever had, was a Logitech MX518. This mouse was reference quality in build and performance and used by Pro Gamers worldwide. Now i am still looking to find a decent “gaming grade quality” again. Price is not that much important, all i want is top quality and performance.
And stay away of all those so called “reviews” of even more so called “renowned” sites. I read many ot those reviews, before i bought the Roccat stuff. And even sites like Anandtech had positive reviews about Roccat. They had their PI and visits, I have spent my money for shitty products. Lession learned.
That Sux Hard 