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Deeply Disappointed with Razer – Second Kiyo Failure & Losing Faith in the Brand

  • September 24, 2025
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MatheusCastanon

I’m honestly at the end of my patience with Razer products.

This is the second Razer Kiyo I’ve purchased, and once again, in less than a year of very light use (about twice a week for meetings (1hours meeting long)), it has completely failed and in the middle of a very important meeting with customers!

The camera suddenly started making short-circuit noises and then stopped working. This exact same issue happened with my first Kiyo.

To be clear: the camera has been installed in one position since day one. I’ve done proper cable management, avoided any stress on the wires, and treated it carefully. And still, here we are again with the same chronic problem.
 

It’s not just the Kiyo.
My Razer mouse is already my second one, and I live in constant concern that it might stop working in the middle of use.
I own Razer laptop, keyboards, mice, mousepads, and more, but my confidence in this brand is fading fast.

Last time I contacted Razer support?

  • The answer was simply: “It’s out of warranty, you should buy a new one.”
    Really? That’s the solution? To buy another product destined to fail? Meanwhile, other brands like Logitech seem to handle customer support and product reliability in a far more sustainable way.

So I have to ask:

Is this programmed obsolescence?
Is the expectation that we just keep replacing expensive products every year?

If Razer doesn’t improve its customer support and address these chronic quality issues, I will have no choice but to either sell all my Razer products or even throw them away altogether. I don’t say this lightly 
I’ve invested heavily in this ecosystem, but I can’t continue to support a brand that leaves loyal customers stranded like this.

What should I do now? Because at this point, I honestly have no more faith in Razer products.

 

 

4 Replies

Lrbrownii
  • September 24, 2025

Join the club. With 30 devices over two PCs. If support won't help me make this rgb stuff actually work it's 8 years of collecting for nothing. Now I need 4 different programs to run their equipment properly.


MatheusCastanon
  • Author
  • Insider Mini
  • September 24, 2025

Join the club. With 30 devices over two PCs. If support won't help me make this rgb stuff actually work it's 8 years of collecting for nothing. Now I need 4 different programs to run their equipment properly.

Dude, I don’t know who hire those service representatives to answer the calls, but just to have an idea, two out of 3 representatives just hang on my face in the call when I said “Hey, I got an issue with my webcam, is not working anymore, I know that is out of the warranty but I want to know why those things are failing with just a year of usage” and to be clear, my voice tone was low, and I even recorded the calls.
This was just the final info that I needed to absolutely throw away the razer products, absolutely no more. The disappointment is so big that I even throw away the ones that are still working, can’t see this brand any longer


  • Insider Mini
  • September 25, 2025

Honestly, this has been the worst customer service experience I’ve ever had. The RMA process is a nightmare—responses come only once every 24 hours, and every reply feels like a scripted template. It’s like something out of Idiocracy, I’m convinced the support team just presses one of four colored buttons to spit out a canned response.

At this point, the juice with this company simply isn’t worth the squeeze.

 

“Your patience and understanding during this process are greatly appreciated. We are committed to resolving this matter to your satisfaction.

Thank you for your trust and support.”

Warm regards,
Beef Supreme


engInVR
  • Insider Mini
  • October 20, 2025

I'm also done... I bought a wireless mouse and keyboard because they could be paired to a single dongle and I game on a laptop…

 

While I've had no problems with the hardware itself, the firmware is a mess and Hyperspeed is very buggy when two devices are paired to a single dongle.

 

I also have an older Orochi v2 that lives in my laptop bag, and I had to open it up to reconnect a cable that came loose inside. And I also had to repair the receiver as it had a dodgy solder joint on the polyfuse.

 

I thought that I'd been unlucky with the Orochi... But it's worse when the hardware is objectively perfect and the problem is software or firmware related. I think that I'm going to limit my future Razer purchases to things like mousepads and such...