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DeathAdder Design Choices

  • March 17, 2025
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Please give this to your DeathAdder Engineering Design Team.

I am still only buying DeathAdder Chroma.  Why?  Because Razer has made bad design choices on V2 and V3. 

I bought, tried, and returned V2, V3, and more recent Essentials.

V2/Elite - the wheel is covered in sharp pyramids that dig into your finger and hurt.
V3 -  the shape is lop-sided and doesn’t fit in the hand correctly.  it’s just aweful.
Essential - has good shape and good wheel, but the non-braided cable chinese ones made now, have cheap switches and don’t track well, especially when barely lifted.

So, yeah, I keep buying 10 year old mice.  Razer, if you’re listening.  I’m your biggest fan from a decade ago.  I hope you can put out a good DeathAdder V4 and keep me going.  Your recent design choices have been off-putting.

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  • biganti
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  • December 11, 2025

I have the same issue with the deathadder v4, the scroll wheel being covered in sharp points.  It’s painful to use after about 5 min.  They did it again with all of the v4 mice.  Razer please stop using these non-soft traction devices.  Finger skin is more important than whatever benefit you think sharp pyramids on the wheel have.  I returned it.

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