SteelSeries Unveils The Ultimate WoW Mouse
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It looks like someone took a look at Issac Clarke's helmet from Dead Space and said "I could make a peripherial out of it"Elurindel said:
having said that that does look like a very kickass mouse but there is no need for that many buttons. Keyboards aren't exactly a new concept, SteelSeries.
I had to do the same thing, actually. I was constantly bashing the side buttons on my MX510 every time I grabbed the mouse, so I ended up disabling them. I've had the mouse for ages and I'm still very happy with it, but what I've really ended up with is a nicely-contoured three-button mouse.
A bit too flashy for me (says the man with a G15 Keyboard). I prefer my ol' reliable Logitech Trackball mouse.
yeah mouse has too many buttons, no way do you need that many really, even in battle grounds you'd hit the wrong button way too many times i'm sure
This mouse will fail. Unless that mouse has the tracking ability to compete with the G5 or MX518 (Razer equivalents too) then it will just fail.
More buttons on a mouse =/= good mouse. Oh and DPI means jack squat.
Most professional Quake III players are at or below 800 DPI on their mice.
EDIT:
Here's a rough outline of what my palm (pretty average sized) will look like on the mouse.
Like many gamers, I tend to flex my thumb against the mouse when I'm getting a bit stressed or simply trying to make some more precise, and slow movements.
Already you can see some problems in the design... It is not very gamer friendly.
More buttons on a mouse =/= good mouse. Oh and DPI means jack squat.
Most professional Quake III players are at or below 800 DPI on their mice.
EDIT:
Here's a rough outline of what my palm (pretty average sized) will look like on the mouse.
Like many gamers, I tend to flex my thumb against the mouse when I'm getting a bit stressed or simply trying to make some more precise, and slow movements.
Already you can see some problems in the design... It is not very gamer friendly.
Yeah, your scroll wheel is on the tip of the thumb, is it not? Regardless, this is a casual gamer's mouse mainly because it has unnatural ergonomics. They expect us to press downwards with our thumb to hold the mouse down when you need a firm hold, that's rather unnatural when you compare it to the standard method of gripping the side of the mouse. In fact it's a bit of a handicap because instead of holding the mouse into your palm you're instead pressing it down against the mousepad which causes a lot more friction.Khell_Sennet said:
Granted it is a mouse geared towards WoW players, and not FPS players. It's a casual gamer's mouse with a professional price tag.
I have yet to see how well it tracks though, so that could go either way.
I definitely couldn't use this mouse for wow. I don't navigate the mouse with my wrist but with my fingers and since I usually play a rogue/lock (and now a dk pew pew) there really isnt much you need more than 5 buttons for skills wise...macros were designed to negate the need for these kinds of mouses.
the people who made wow at the start probably thought this "Ok some of our classes have so many skills people can't reach the bound keys with their fingers, what do we do to remedy this? We'll make macros that can chain cast skills, hence putting 15+ key binds into 5 or less."
My lock for example has one single macro for all his shadow dots and one macro for grinding skills. in total he has 3 buttons that get used while questing and fighting in raids. There simply no need for a mouse with 15 buttons, no matter how epic it is =.=
the people who made wow at the start probably thought this "Ok some of our classes have so many skills people can't reach the bound keys with their fingers, what do we do to remedy this? We'll make macros that can chain cast skills, hence putting 15+ key binds into 5 or less."
My lock for example has one single macro for all his shadow dots and one macro for grinding skills. in total he has 3 buttons that get used while questing and fighting in raids. There simply no need for a mouse with 15 buttons, no matter how epic it is =.=
Shitloads of buttons can be cool.
Back in the day I had myself a really sweet HOTAS setup with a CH F-16 Combatstick, Pro Throttle and Rudder Pedals. Still have it, in fact, although it's virtually unusable without a gameport. (Those USB adapters cripple nearly all but the most basic functionality, which kinda kills the point of having it.)
Anyway, when you put it all together these things had... hell, I don't even know how many buttons and hat switches and such they had, but it was a lot. Fully programmable, probably quite similar to the WoW mouse in how that worked, doubtless a bit more primitive but the CH software would let you manually program buttons with single or combination keypresses, and a lot of games were supported with pre-made configurations as well.
I used the hell out of those controls in Air Warrior as well as Mechwarrior 2, and it was fantastic. For all but the most esoteric, rarely-used functions, my hands never left the controls. It made playing the game easier, and even more importantly it greatly heightened the immersiveness of the experience. But the obvious, and crucial, difference is that the buttons were spaced over two entirely separate, huge controllers. It was nearly impossible to accidentally mash the wrong button, or two buttons, because the asstons of buttons were spread across asstons of controller. I love lots of buttons, but at some point you have to say, there's just not enough room on this thing.
Back in the day I had myself a really sweet HOTAS setup with a CH F-16 Combatstick, Pro Throttle and Rudder Pedals. Still have it, in fact, although it's virtually unusable without a gameport. (Those USB adapters cripple nearly all but the most basic functionality, which kinda kills the point of having it.)
Anyway, when you put it all together these things had... hell, I don't even know how many buttons and hat switches and such they had, but it was a lot. Fully programmable, probably quite similar to the WoW mouse in how that worked, doubtless a bit more primitive but the CH software would let you manually program buttons with single or combination keypresses, and a lot of games were supported with pre-made configurations as well.
I used the hell out of those controls in Air Warrior as well as Mechwarrior 2, and it was fantastic. For all but the most esoteric, rarely-used functions, my hands never left the controls. It made playing the game easier, and even more importantly it greatly heightened the immersiveness of the experience. But the obvious, and crucial, difference is that the buttons were spaced over two entirely separate, huge controllers. It was nearly impossible to accidentally mash the wrong button, or two buttons, because the asstons of buttons were spread across asstons of controller. I love lots of buttons, but at some point you have to say, there's just not enough room on this thing.