When I was talking to SteelSeries about this beast, they insisted that this wasn’t part of an “arms race.” No, because in a battle of ergonomics, doubling the buttons isn’t always a good idea. But they assured me that they have been working really carefully on this thing to make it usable in the first place, and actually useful in the second. I’m thinking that the diamond-shaped button goes four ways and there’s another on the far side, which, added to all the other buttons there, makes 15.
They worked with Blizzard and designed the mouse around the idea that it’s practically a replacement for your keyboard; all your spells and shortcuts are there for most things, and you can switch profiles or customize super easily so you’re not always in battle mode or all-purpose mode. It’s also kind of cool-looking, which I didn’t expect, and it can be illuminated in pretty much any color you can think of. I don’t play WoW but I’ve seen enough of it to know that this thing might actually be useful. I have a feeling Nicholas will be checking this one out.
When will this mouse be released and is it MAC compatible?
The mouse will be released on Nov. 13 (same as the WOLK expansion pack). MAC drivers are planned soon after launch (30-45 days)
Thank god. MY MX1000 won’t last forever, so it’s nice to see another option on the horizon.
Re: Mac compatibility. I finally just went with Boot Camp, and run WoW in Windows, because the Logitech mouse drivers were so much better.
However, since this mouse is WoW branded, and Blizzard is always so good about being both Mac and Windows compatible, perhaps SteelSeries will be compelled to do the same.
Try USB overdrive for Mac OS if you don’t like the device drivers your input device comes with.
Yeah…USB Overdrive, which I’ve used a ton in the past, didn’t quite cut it for me when I tried it recently. I was able to address all of the buttons, but it seemed flakey and laggy at best. It’s good to hear this mouse will have native Mac support…I may have to look into switching back to running WoW under MacOS.
try 99.99 at gamestop
since i work their -15% off on it
oh and for bragging rights it is getting released 11/3/08
Lawl everyone knows its out on the 3rd just not playable till the 13th :D
UM it’s the 13th and it’s still NOT available teh gladitorial game so LOLLOL to you.
I would like to know the size of the mouse, this is key. If you have a mouser with a claw footprint on the mouse and you give them a palm type mouse it won’t work. I’ve tried a lot of mice and the Logitech G9 is perfect size for my hand. Worst mouse I’ve ever done is the Boomslang by Razer, too long.
I’d like to know the dimensions before taking a chance.
I pre-ordered mine in oct spent the $100 and it still isnt here and its the 1st of jan wth is going on with that thing i want it real bad. It’s a fatty upgrade from the old ball mouse c’mon give us the final release date so we know when to exspect it PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Friend of mine had this mouse purchased for him in the middle of December for Christmas got the mouse yesterday(01/12/2008)…….. he didn’t mind so much because it looked like a sweet mouse. He pulled it out and showed it to me yesterday and indeed it looked so sweet I almost purchased another one right at that moment. Good thing I didn’t because this morning he told me it died after about 10 minutes of use.
Clickers are awful and are always noobs. Make a keyboard to replace the mouse kthxbai.
My nephew got one of these for his birthday. Unfortunately, he plays on a Mac, and now here in April, there are still no Mac drivers. Most of the buttons are unrecognized and unusable by WoW. My hands aren’t all that big and the action in the side buttons doesn’t feel very good to me, so I can’t see myself ever getting very comfortable with this thing.
For the chap with the Mac there is a program that allows you to map buttons using 3rd party software. It’s called X-control (or something like that). I used it with my MERC Keyboard I own. :)
I just received my SS Wo.W mouse and i am having some issues with it.
I had one on order for 6 months up here in Canada, but found it on a shelf in the states over the weekend.
I’d read the poor reviews, but wanted to satisfy my curiosity after all this time, so I disposed of some disposable income and picked one up.
For starters my buttons feel like they’re made out of cheap ass plastic, as in really cheap ass for the $ i paid..WTF?!?
It gives me the tingles in my fingers and i thought i had a major issue with RSI after playing for 5 hours straight but no, apparantly it’s some issue where there’s electricity being leaked out onto the chasis. I want to return mine but their tech support hasn’t gotten back to me. So much for money well spent.
I think im going to hit up a G5 or the mamba, which is kinda too expensive. there’s even a bunch of guys suing blizzard for it at http://petitiononline.com/wowmouse
seems like there’s so much complaints about the mouse in every forum i searched for. wtf