SteelSeries World Of Warcraft WOW MMO Gaming Mouse Review Among Other Things

to all on this discussion i already have my WOW mouse received it 05.03.08 and i preordered it the day it was available on GameStop.com. The official release date from GameStop is now December 5th. the release dates changed from November 14th to November 24th then to the 5th of December. GameStop is the only site i know of with a clear release date bot amazon, newegg and SteelSeries own site dont list one

i dont play wow and never plan on doing so. i personally think the more buttons on the mouse the better. if you have used SteelSeries's Ikari Laser Mouse you will be very please it uses the same laser engine and is even lighter and the software is even more robust and you can save up to 10 different button and sensitivity profiles and when you change profile the leds change to the color you have chosen. the off side is there is no way to change cpi (the proper name for dpi) that differs from your profile without using the included software. also without the driver thing cn get pretty messy because depending on the operating system it will ignore your profile and just assign defaults to the buttons and with 15 button that gets kind of crazy because the generic mouse driver is only up to 5 max. also there is no lcd screen on the bottom of the mouse to tell you your cpi setting or which profile your using. also if you if you liked the fact that the ikari laser was not covered in leds you may be un happy with this mouse because it glows in every direction but at least shows the profile your useing. also this mouse is much less ergonomic than the ikari laser and is very wide and feels larger but when put next to each other their actually very close in size. i think this feeling is due to the fact that your main two fingers are spread further apart due to the 2 button behind the scroll wheel and the 2 next to it. if you are buying a new mouse i would say pick either of these if your looking for more than 5 buttons and the lightest mouse ive ever used and gaudy flashieness go with the SteelSeries MMO Mouse but if 5 buttons is enough for you, you like simplicity and the ability to not need the driver installed to use your profile, want a light but sturdy very ergonomic mouse go with the gamer created and gamer tested SteelSeries Ikari Laser. i for now will use both but mostly the MMO mouse until my Ikari laser dies.

if you are looking for a good mouse pad I suggest any of SteelSeries Mouse Pads/Surfaces. The SX is the best and most expensive being made of metal and retailing for $60. then the experience I-2 Second best and mid price. its is made of glass (dont use with optical mice most have issues with glass) and can be found as low as $20 but retails for $40. the next would be the SP made of special pitted plastic (dont use with laser mice most hve problems with the pitted surface they will sence the large change in height as a movement) and retails for $40 and down. the next would then be the s&s solo which is the plastic equivalent to the sx. it has a very thin hard plastic surface on top and soft rubber on the back it retails for $30. there are other SteelSeries Mouse pads the bove are just the ones i recommend. They include the Exxperience I-1 which is a smaller version of the I-2. The QcK series which are thin bendable cloth mouse pads they vary in size and thickness. There are other random ones like the 5L, 5C, and 4D which vary in size and thickness and the surface is a cloth and plastic hybrid.

please read this article written about the ikari laser:
http://www.fragyou.net/?page_id=24

heres a post on FragYou SteelSeries unofficial blog about how to use the MMO mouse and its software:
http://www.fragyou.net/2008/10/22/video-presentation-of-the-world-of-warcraft%C2%AE-mmo-gaming-mouse/

The site for SteelSeries is http://www.steelseries.com. click international no matter where you are. they havnt updated the other site. also woith te site update they left the entire old site up and never removed it button so to navigate their products click the World Of Warcraft Order Now Button and use the orange and grey button to navigate their products. if you use the oold buttons you will find old products that dont exist anymore and item descriptions will not be update and newer items will be missing

the unofficial SteelSeries blog which is done by SK Gaming major gaming team in professional pc gaming who helps test and develop SteelSeries products is availble here http://www.fragyou.net/. to navigate the site use the categories button on the far right te are oddly ordered but work the best becuse the main site only shows the newest and most popular articles

if you would like to contact me about anything i am available at TheProfosist@gmail.com i should be able to respond to your email within the hour. Also please check out my site http://theprofosist.blogspot.com/

to the person who said that all gaming mice are really flat you are wrong only Razer's mice are flat. you have probably only used their mice because they are popular with people who are just the popular games on pc because they are flashy. the only one of their mice that i have liked is the boomslang their original mouse i used it until it died. logitech's mice are egg shaped until you reach the MX Revolution and the G9 which is when they became very ergonomic and u grip it with your fingers. the mx revolution is an amazing mouse evern though its technically not a gaming mouse. but it is the most comfortable ever. i also used this until it died. steelseries first mouse they built fully independently ws the ikari laser wich is the mouse i was using until i got Steelseries MMO gaming mouse (notice no WOW? thats cause the mouse isnt only for WOW they included idiot proof software specifically for wow). and i will continue useing the Ikari Laser with my MMO Mouse until it dies. This is because in my eyes it is the best mouse developed so far. its not flashy, very light, ergonomic, and no driver is needed to use your custom profile

for the person who said they should have had them at the midnight release of wow. that could have happened b ut then no one who preordered them would have gotten them. also SteelSeries makes very high quality gaming gear their 7G Keyboard is built like a tank. the higher quality now days the longer it takes to produce. also this is SteelSeries first product to enter main stream gaming all of their other gear is designed and marketed to professional gamers and computer enthusiasts not your average casual gamer. they enter this area when they bought out Idezon then reengineered and marketed their products. They kept the Ideaon team as a separate team within SteelSeries Company. That team is who used their connections and developed this mouse with blizzard and then tested the with the SK gaming team. So they didnt expect the amount of preorders and theres no way they can produce them fast enough. this product will probably end up like the wii very hard to find due to manufacturing limitations and popularity. also about the business license revoked i bet u they would have liked to have it out on release with all preorders already filled because they would be racking in money and putting it into development of their next mouse pad/headset/keyboard/mouse. but you cant always have everything u want there are always limitations and unexpected changes.

to the person who said gamestop doesnt know when its going to be released and that they need this mouse to play the game. GameStop knows when its going to be released as soon as their infor if their told a date and the date changes they change the date they can only say when the item will be coming by the info they get from the company. Also you dont need this mouse to play WOW. No one needs this mouse. you need a mouse. have u not played the last 2 WOW titles without this mouse? Im sure ull be able to live and play your new WOW game.

to the person who said there better be a good reason and gave a few examples i give you props. not only did you say something that happens regular with electronics and games but you gave reasons. My guess is as stated above they dont want to release the product until the majority of preorders have been filled also i contacted SteelSeries when they first had the mouse on their site (i did contact them before it was up on their site using the phone i got a real person like a receptionist { yes their still that small } and they said they couldnt talk about it until a official press release but i did get a personal email { that probably shouldnt have been given out but it was nice of them }) the only information they could give me is the stuff they already had up but i know their products pretty well and knew that they had just merged with Ideazon. So i asked some questions like did ti use the same engine as the Ikari Laser, do you have Ideazon's Team working on this since they have the connection to Blizzard, was it going to be tested by SK Gaming. All of those questions get a yes nothing more but a yes. so my guess is that they were letting professional gamers test it under tournament condition since there was a big WOW tournament recently. Another thing is is that they started the development of this mouse not to long after SteelSeries bought out Ideazon and i believe it was Blizzard who wanted the mouse by the release. Not much time to make a new 15 button mouse and software and driver from the ground up.

to the person who said they should just ship out what they have. what you have to understand is that unless you purchased it directly from SteelSeries you are buying through a company which has so many preorders and there are other companies that have possibly more preorders they can just give one company the mice and the other not. people would then find out that one company has them and others dont then cancel their orders and try to get the at the company who had them. they no longer would have because they woiuld have shipped them all out to preorder customers. also not everyone who orders this mouse plays WOW i for one dont its a computer mouse not a WOW only computer mouse so other hard core gamers that have been waiting like i have for a mouse with more than 5 buttons would have preordered 2. Once again YOU DONT NEED THIS MOUSE TO PLAY WOW you may not even like useing once u have it if youve played the past 2 games with a certain control set you will have to change nearly every button. also theirs cpi changes, polling rate changes, x&y axis changes + more. Most WOW players probably dont know what those terms mean or what they do. You also said there are 11 million players and are acting like each is going to buy the mouse well if they were why dont they just package the mouse with the game. i mean if your going to go that way why not add the mouse pad and keyboard. Not every person is willing to shell out $100 for a mouse especially one they dont fully undestand or know why they should buy it. most people never upgrade their mouse they really should but dont. they use the crappy ball or optical mouse that come with your computer. another thing if you bough this mouse would u even know what to buy with it because what the point of having this awesome $100 mouse if your using a freebie PS/2 keyboard and a cheap cloth and foam mouse pad from Wal-mart. SteelSeries 7G Keyboard to complement this is $150 also you cant use the mouse on no mouse pad it would wear the feet too fast and you would replace the whole mouse because most people dont know you could just replace the feet. in the en the setup run $300+ depending what your getting and if you want a headset or not.

THIS IS WRITTEN IN RESPONSE TO A AMAZON DISCUSSION
http://www.amazon.com/When/forum/Fx3G111U8U3IQ8Y/Tx44FUJ0B6JEGS/1/ref=cm_cd_n_njs_sub?_encoding=UTF8&s=electronics&cdItems=25&asin=B001H31B2A&store=electronics

Customer Discussions > SteelSeries Special-Edition World of Warcraft Mouse forum
When?

Initial post: Nov 17, 2008 10:44 AM PST
Eleanor Hill says:
Does anyone know exactly when this will be available? I had heard that it would be out on the 13th of Nov. but obviously that hasn't happened. No fun leveling without a new shiny toy to go along with it.

In reply to an earlier post on Nov 23, 2008 6:01 PM PST
Julie Gondar says:
I just asked SteelSeries and they are estimating, "the end of November". That's the best that I could get from them.

In reply to an earlier post on Nov 24, 2008 7:20 AM PST
J. Darois says:
According to the BN.com site "Available for Pre-Order This item will be available on November 25." So tomorrow.

In reply to an earlier post on Nov 24, 2008 7:28 PM PST
Eleanor Hill says:
Dude...I hope so. That would be sweet! :D

In reply to an earlier post on Nov 25, 2008 8:47 PM PST
Last edited by the author on Nov 25, 2008 8:47 PM PST
Joseph Pianta says:
I don't know where your seeing that, amazon has this on my account page

" The following item will arrive after December 25, 2008. "

I'll be level 80 by then!

In reply to an earlier post on Nov 26, 2008 2:09 AM PST
Last edited by the author on Nov 26, 2008 2:10 AM PST
Jason Therrien says:
I pre-ordered it from Game Stop, and paid for it in full, at the beginning of November. I was told it would be at my local midnight release event.
At the midnight release, I was told it would be there the following Saturday (the 15th).
On Saturday, I was told it would be there Monday (the 17th).
Monday, I was told it would arrive Tuesday (the 25th).
Yesterday, I was told it would be there today (the 26th).
However, Game Stop's website now says December 5th. I'm starting to get very frustrated, and I am very close to just asking for my money back, and purchasing a different mouse, as I need a new one kind of badly.

In short: I have no idea when it's being released, and Game Stop doesn't seem to have any idea either.

In reply to an earlier post on Nov 27, 2008 8:16 AM PST
Eleanor Hill says:
It is aggravating and a really bad business decision not to have it available for the midnight release of WotLK. Can you imagine having seen them at all of the stores that were open for that? All kinds of sales could have been made, but as it stands now they are losing sales. What could the problem possibly be? Higher demand than anticipated? Over 11 million people play WoW...way to not be prepared, SteelSeries and Game Stop. Better be here soon. BN.com says Dec. 5 now, and they've already charged me for it...if they have any business sense at all, it will be at my house before Dec. 25 *at the latest*. If they screw up a possible holiday release, they should have their business license revoked.

In reply to an earlier post on Dec 3, 2008 3:44 PM PST
Jennifer Leising says:
I wanted this mouse after I saw it at Blizzcon and they mentioned "November". When I picked up my game at GameStop on Nov 13th's midnight release they said "Tomorrow".

I don't NEED the mouse and honestly, my complaint with the mouse was that it didn't fit perfectly well in my hand (I'm a girl -- I have small hands. Most gaming mice suffer from flat-palm surfaces and make me stretch to the tips of my fingers to hit the buttons squarely) but I figured the additional buttons would really help (I'm a multiboxer and, pre-wrath, Sunwell raider. I use LOTS of keybindings).

Sucks that it's not here. Their reasons better be good -- i.e. they better be working out the softare/hardware bugs or something. If Amazon has my money already and they're dragging their feet about the release, I expect the product to be worth the wait.

In reply to an earlier post on Dec 3, 2008 5:27 PM PST
C. Pianta says:
SteelSeries is silly to think they are going to fill all the orders at time of release, there are 11 million people and counting that are playing WOW. SteelSeries needs to just ship what they have done. Put people on back order waiting list.