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I recently built a new PC and just found out Synapse 4 existed, so I decided to try that instead of Synapse 3, as it’s clearly out of beta and ready to roll.  I thought to myself, “maybe it’ll be more like Synapse 2 before Razer forced me to upgrade to Synapse 3 when my last Molten Naga finally died (RIP!) and I couldn’t afford another one because scalpers were selling old Nagas for 3 times as much for some strange reason.”  Alas, it seems that is not the case, as mere moments after installation, I’m already having problems.  As we all know that Razer makes amazing software, I thought I would stop by here to see where it was that I went wrong.

My installation process:

  1. Download installer.
  2. Run installer.
  3. Reboot.
  4. Run Synapse 4.
  5. Try to migrate from Synapse 3.
  6. Told I need to download Synapse 3, sync to the cloud, then rerun Synapse 4 to migrate.
  7. Download Synapse 3.
  8. Told Synapse 3 and Synapse 4 cannot be installed together.
  9. Uninstall Synapse 4.
  10. Install Synapse 3.
  11. Reboot.
  12. Log in to Synapse 3.
  13.  Sync to cloud.
  14. Uninstall Synapse 3.
  15. Install Synapse 4.
  16. Reboot.
  17. Attempt to migrate from Synapse 3.
  18. Given Error that states: unable to migrate this device’s profiles as the file might be corrupted.
  19. Make new profiles one at a time.
  20. Try to program dozens of new keyboard functions but am forced to select start recording every single time.
  21. Realize that all of my games have to be added one by one because there’s no auto find function that I don’t even have to download Cortex to know that it has.
  22. Eight additional steps randomly throughout the above of skipping and closing and nexting past popups to actually finish installing Synapse so I can go stick a lit (and waterproof, just to be safe) M-80 up my butt for stomach relief.

I’m just a layman, so I’m obviously mistaken, but it seems to me that a lot of this could have been avoided if I was able to sync from the cloud during step 5 instead of being forced to go through 20+ steps.  Am I missing something? It’s almost like this hardware is a F2P P2W early access live-service game that we have to overpay for. Is there a monthly subscription plan? How about an ultimate edition for one week first dibs on new versions?

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