This week's Star Wars: The Old Republic Friday Update comes to us in two parts. First, the previously announced SWTOR-themed Razer peripherals are now available for pre-order. All of the products (mouse, keyboard, headset, and mousepad) will be released simultaneously with the game on December 20th. BioWare also published a Choose Your Side video featuring the Jedi Consular and Imperial Agent classes. The video provides players with an overview of each class's playstyle and the gist of each storyline. Read after the jump for the video embed and DevTracker posts.
Razer Peripherals
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Posted 12/6/2011 12:54:20 PMIA ftw, most fun class I've ever played in any MMO.
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Posted 12/5/2011 8:35:50 PMThose prices are way to high. Hopefully they sell some to warrant the design and creation of new star wars products. But seriously? I cant afford prices like these no matter how much i want them. I was all ready to buy a keyboard, but that is a car payment for me. F that.
I would have thought a much more reasonable price would sell that much more product, and make money on volume. No thanks. Mr Lukas can get the $$ from me when the star wars movies come back to theatre.
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Posted 12/6/2011 1:28:30 PMWhich is the first 3 episodes.......in 3d....
....So really??
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Posted 12/4/2011 12:06:01 PMThis is very very disappointing. Speaking about the price. Razor has the naga epic for $10 cheaper on their own site! Mark up, yes I know why. Just saying is all. I would've liked to buy the mouse and keyboard, but that is just an outrageous price, and very insulting if I may say so. That keyboard, dispite it is one of a kind at the moment is just not worth the money. No. Just no!
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Posted 12/4/2011 6:09:42 AMFor little old Aussie me, the prices are even more absurd!
Keyboard is $349.99
Mouse is $229.99
Headset is $199.99
THE BLOODY PAD IS $80!!!!!
Is there another place I can get them from other than the Razer website? There's no way in hell i'm paying that much for any of those. (I'll stick with my G19 and Logitech mouse thanks)
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Posted 12/5/2011 12:24:10 PMWell since you guys are upside down I think the 50% increase in price warrents the engineering required for these thins to work there
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Posted 12/6/2011 1:05:10 AMLOL very true!
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Posted 12/3/2011 11:18:36 PMI pre-ordered the mouse I find the items interesting and the mouse very useful with the 12 buttons on the side. Wanting the keyboard though anyone know why it isn't available for pre-order yet when everything says it should be?
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Posted 12/6/2011 1:08:10 AMRazer has a non-star wars mouse that I believe is the exact same, just not "star wars" for 79.99 to 129.99
The Razer Naga mouse, there are a few different ones you would have to look them up.
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Posted 12/3/2011 12:04:26 PMI have owned a razor Naga. I am currently use a Logitech G700.
Heres what problems I have had with the Naga. Please note that this mouse has been very well treated, never dropped, and never slammed around. It seemed to work just fine out of the box for the first 3 weeks.
The first thing that started to bother me is that it was made out of shiny plastic on the sides. It had a rubberized matte coating on the top. As others have aptly mentioned above we use our mice when playing an MMO for many hours, so those shiny picture pretty sides end up making hands slightly sweat just slightly. After about an hour of testing it I already had to wipe fingerprints off it. These start to build up. I had to clean this thing EVERY time I used it. It scares me to think of what this mouse looks like in the hands of someone who has never cleaned it. Imagine that fat guy from "Gamer" (sorry I brought that movie) and his overly sweaty hands using this shiny plastic mouse and never cleaning it.
The "braided cord" is a nice way of selling you crap and calling itself luxery. The braided material is horrible. They make it sound like all your current wired mice cords are out to get you ad theirs is somehow the savior. Wrong, of so wrong. Its the other way around. The Naga I had was just light enough for this stiff wiry most un-supple cord imaginable to actually push your mouse away if you take your hand off it. The cord NEVER loses the the folds from when it was folded up from the box. Every bend you put in it will remain forever and feels as if any bending on the cord will cause the wires inside to snap under tensions. Some reviews out there state that has actually happened. Also, the "braided cord" (oooh la la) frays right near the mouse after a few weeks and looks like crap and eventually will start to expose the fragile wires.
Tracking? So how does it work? Lets just say this, and this is not hyperbole or exaggeration, I went to Iraq and purchased a tiny portable wireless mouse from a local vendor for twenty bucks. This was overpriced and felt like I could crush it in my hand. It outperformed the Naga by more than double on a single AAA battery. Its still working at my brothers house, while in retrospect the naga started to die before I left for the middle east. The naga currently will start to cut out up and down movement at any given time. The naga doesnt perform well at all in a dark room and will start to lose any sense of direction. Does this sound like an advanced laser to you?
When I compare the Naga to my new Logitech G700 its like comparing a .22 homemade zipgun to an HN Five-Seven. Its a no contest.
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Posted 12/4/2011 2:07:19 PM- View User Profile
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Posted 12/3/2011 4:50:24 PMGlad to hear this, sort of.
I had to choose between waiting for this SWTOR mouse, buying the naga strait up, or a new Logitech mouse. I've had the first run MXRevolution ever since WoW's launch and it made my rogue unstoppable, and lasted me 5 years of hard gaming and still works perfectly. So I was leaning more towards a Logitech. Well about a month ago I got am e-mail for 50% off any one Logitech item so I jumped on the g700, for 45sh bucks I couldn't resist. While it is a very well build mouse I found myself quite disappointed.
First thing was the mouse scroll mode changer button is not programmable like it was on the MXRevolution, it’s a mechanical button which sticks out very far hindering the button behind it if you were key binding that. This essentially reduces their advertised buttons on the mouse by 1.
Second thing, the Profiles they advertise that can be stored on the mouse is a complete and utter useless feature that doesn't work at all in the slightest for any gain whatsoever. These profiles are wiped as soon as you plug it into any other computer, along with making you associate the mouse with that computer. Thus making you have to have set point regardless and separately made profiles on that computer to make it work properly. Which brings me to the third point.
The new Setpoint is a horrible massive stinking pile of jawa crap. In order to even get your profiles to work in the first place you have to run through an obstacle course of flaming rings while praying to god and screaming hocus pocus to get it to work properly. The automatic profile switching still does not work with SWTOR, or a couple of my other games. Even in SWTOR once I forgo the automatic switching and mickey mouse it manually to get it to do anything I programed it to while the game is open (which also makes me lose either a programmable button or to lose ability to switch profiles entirely until I manually revert it back), it still doesn't work properly. In my case the programmed buttons on my mouse were for instance; 1, 2, 3. If I opened chat log and clicked the respective mouse buttons it would type out 1, 2, 3, but pressing the buttons would not activate the 1-2-3 hotbar buttons. I had to manually add their mapping to the secondary keymap option for those numbers in SWTOR preferences, and it added them parallel to the existing 1-2-3 instead of replacing it like it normally does when you map the same key. So setpoints 1-2-3 was somehow separated from the normal windows 1-2-3 buttons.
I also noticed my hand sweats more with the g700 than it did with the MX, but I can't comment on it compared to the naga.
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Posted 12/3/2011 1:25:36 PMCan only say, functionality over looks.
My experience, while not with a Naga or any other Razor is similar. I had a beautiful, shiny and decidedly impressive G7... Well it a failure waiting to happen and I soon had a G5 instead. Similar issues with the shiny surface. Slippery, sweat-inducing and rapidly deteriorating, cleaning was a mess.
Never again will I buy these 'lookers'. My more simple G5 is old now, yet it looks new, acts new (the G7 began having issues with getting the clicking function stuck at 'on' which was a mess in an MMO) and has never required cleaning beyond it's sliding surface (the pads collect a bit of dust).
Heck I even have a simple Wave keyboard. It's main problem are the keys that can be a bit tricky to press if you press them from an angle. Otherwise it is downright pleasant to use (big soft pad all along the lower edge for handsupport). Cheap too. Like shoes and fashion clothes, most of this 'statement' gear is overpriced and underdeveloped in terms of functionality.
Charming... yes? http://imgur.com/r6WrI
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Posted 12/3/2011 6:40:10 AMThose peripherals look fine, but my wallet sadly disagrees.
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Posted 12/3/2011 2:39:40 AMhmm when i first saw the sw razer stuff i thought it looked cool, but now? I dunno, i guess it lost its appeal - looks way to clunky. Think i'll stick to my molten naga mouse, carcharias headset & nostromo keypad - batteries suck when u play more than 2hrs a day.