The Arena Master
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Hello everyone! I'm back with another novel
"Arena! You're not my mom! Don't tell me what to buy!"
I'm not telling you what to buy, I'm telling you what not to buy! Now, let's get into it:
Lately, Razor gaming mouses and keyboards seem to be taking quite a hold on the computer-pieces-o'-plastic market. With the bright lights, fancy buttons, and all sorts of crap you don't need, they've taken a young gamer market by storm.
Now, as you can tell, I'm getting after Razor. While they're probably a fairly solid company, there's a lot of misconceptions and many people are buying their products when they honestly don't need them. First off:
-If you think you having these will increase how you play in MCSG, you're wrong. They won't. You can buy the most expensive mouse in the world, it won't matter.
When I was #1 on the leaderboards, you know what I had? I had a magic mouse for my mac and a apple keyboard. The magic mouse is probably one of the most awful mouses for minecraft simply because it doesn't have a scroll wheel, and you're constantly accidentally flipping through your inventory. The keyboard also had some of the function keys rendered useless. Now days I use a $10 dell keyboard and a $10 dell mouse for my new computer.
You know what this really reminds me of? Beats. It's all about brand name. Razor has built up a name for themselves as some extremely top-of-the-line computer gaming manufacturer company. Beats also built up their name for some top of the line headset company. Their market is all brand messaging: Beats can sell for $300 when their quality can be debated as the same or even lower than my $50 Sony headset. It's all brand messaging.
-Arena! You're not my fricken mom! These things will help, they have more functions! Don't tell me what not to buy!
I know I'm not your mom, very observant. After those long years of your life you finally discovered that the random, male, teenage stranger you met online is not your mom. Congrats. Ah, yes, the functions! The mouses do have the buttons, don't they? You don't need them. Like said earlier, when I had my mac mouse, the only real function I could do was left click. It was impossible to block hit (or at least next to impossible). That's 1 function, you're telling me you need 12? Come on, we have keyboards for that.
Also, I'm not telling you not to buy these. By all means, if you want to blow $70 on something that really only costs $5 than go right ahead. Just know that you could probably be putting those $65 to something more useful.
Let's think of it this way: you use a pencil you picked up on the ground to do your homework. Then in stores you see a signature craftsmen Dixon Ticonderoga red velvet pencil for $50. Both write in similar to exact same style, but one's fancier than the other.
All in all, while the razor keyboards and mouses might look nice, truth be told it's all brand marketing. They try and pretend you'll have the ultimate game experience, when in reality it is not that much of a difference, and nothing to spend $70 for. It's just not worth it. If you're truly a good player at the game, you don't need the most expensive equipment in the world.
The main thing I want to talk about today is something I've been hearing a lot about lately: Razor
mouses, razor keyboards, and all sorts of other fancy crap you don't need."Arena! You're not my mom! Don't tell me what to buy!"
I'm not telling you what to buy, I'm telling you what not to buy! Now, let's get into it:
Lately, Razor gaming mouses and keyboards seem to be taking quite a hold on the computer-pieces-o'-plastic market. With the bright lights, fancy buttons, and all sorts of crap you don't need, they've taken a young gamer market by storm.
Now, as you can tell, I'm getting after Razor. While they're probably a fairly solid company, there's a lot of misconceptions and many people are buying their products when they honestly don't need them. First off:
-If you think you having these will increase how you play in MCSG, you're wrong. They won't. You can buy the most expensive mouse in the world, it won't matter.
When I was #1 on the leaderboards, you know what I had? I had a magic mouse for my mac and a apple keyboard. The magic mouse is probably one of the most awful mouses for minecraft simply because it doesn't have a scroll wheel, and you're constantly accidentally flipping through your inventory. The keyboard also had some of the function keys rendered useless. Now days I use a $10 dell keyboard and a $10 dell mouse for my new computer.
You know what this really reminds me of? Beats. It's all about brand name. Razor has built up a name for themselves as some extremely top-of-the-line computer gaming manufacturer company. Beats also built up their name for some top of the line headset company. Their market is all brand messaging: Beats can sell for $300 when their quality can be debated as the same or even lower than my $50 Sony headset. It's all brand messaging.
-Arena! You're not my fricken mom! These things will help, they have more functions! Don't tell me what not to buy!
I know I'm not your mom, very observant. After those long years of your life you finally discovered that the random, male, teenage stranger you met online is not your mom. Congrats. Ah, yes, the functions! The mouses do have the buttons, don't they? You don't need them. Like said earlier, when I had my mac mouse, the only real function I could do was left click. It was impossible to block hit (or at least next to impossible). That's 1 function, you're telling me you need 12? Come on, we have keyboards for that.
Also, I'm not telling you not to buy these. By all means, if you want to blow $70 on something that really only costs $5 than go right ahead. Just know that you could probably be putting those $65 to something more useful.
Let's think of it this way: you use a pencil you picked up on the ground to do your homework. Then in stores you see a signature craftsmen Dixon Ticonderoga red velvet pencil for $50. Both write in similar to exact same style, but one's fancier than the other.
All in all, while the razor keyboards and mouses might look nice, truth be told it's all brand marketing. They try and pretend you'll have the ultimate game experience, when in reality it is not that much of a difference, and nothing to spend $70 for. It's just not worth it. If you're truly a good player at the game, you don't need the most expensive equipment in the world.
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