MadCatz Cyborg M.M.O. 7 LED 6400 DPI USB Dual Action Laser Gaming Mouse PC/MAC Compatible

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despite nagtive reviews for this mouse, I bought this mouse base on my great experience with r.a.t.5. Even with sale price it is still double or triple the $ for a decent gaming mice. my first mmo7 is defective. Scroll wheel stuck frequently, due to not even surface of the rubber around the wheel. This is not OK on a percision device like mouse. Thanks for ncix to replace it with another one which is working as expected. the action button not very useful, not sure why people want left or rt button pressed whole time. Other programmable button are useful. And they scatter around mouse, easy to locate. 5d button not easy to use without pressing other buttions to put strength on it. Can't figure out what the little button above pinky rest does.If you have other R.A.T mice, uninstall the driver was not clean for me, had to go device manager to manually unintall programmable simulater. mmo7 works ok in FPS. In action game like 'sleeping dog'. After a few mins play by click and click, mmo7 simply died. All lights on mice went off, all button cease working. Had to unplug and plugin back.In all, mmo7 is mix bag for me. The scroll wheel issue never happened even on my cheaptest mouse. Maybe it's just unlucky of me. Except that, it looks great, does its job most of time. By a price tag over $130, you certainly expect more.

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My first thought was how cool looking this mouse is.. I have had and used a lot of more conventional 'style' of mice over the years and I guess it's what I'm used too cause no matter how much tweaking and adjusting I do I can't get this mouse comfortable in my hand. No part of my small hands finds this mouse easy to use, the buttons in a convenient place. Nadda.. I suspect maybe I just needed to get used to the difference, but from day 1 this mouse has also had a tendency to 'freeze' the pointer will stop or things in a game will stop moving, but all the buttons and macro's will keep working, it will simply stop sending movement info. The more the mouse is used the more it does this to the point I have had to abandon it for day to day mousing or games since it WILL freeze in a game, at least once if not more. Unplugging and pluggin the USB cord back in fixes this problem but so far I have no been able to convince people to stop shooting at me while I do this. It also means having to keep it plugged into a front port rather than a back port because of the need to do a quick unplug and plug. I never got the explore all the custom options. I like the 'click lock' for the main buttons, but the button to turn this on is also in a bad place for my hand, I hit the lock button more than I hit the actual mouse button, the only solution for me is to keep my first 2 fingers spread as wide as my hand will allow to keep them off those buttons... This does making playing for longer than 20 mins uncomfortable. The 'sniper' button was the one feature I used most (WWIIOL and ARMA-holic here) and the one feature I look for in a replacement.In the end I'm RMAing (I opened a support ticket with Madcatz but haven't heard a peep yet) and if they'll let me I'll pick up Corsair mouse and maybe a gaming KB too.. I've been a Corsair or Logitech fanboy for some years and I think I'll return to the brands that have treated me so well in the past.My 2 cents.P.S. As I typed this review the flippin thing froze again..