Razer Game Store Closing Feb 28, Less Than Year After Launch (variety.com) 25
The Razer Game Store will close on February 28 at 1am PST, the company announced in a blog post. This comes less than a year after its launch last April. From a report: The shutdown is part of "the company's realignment plans," according to Razer. "It has been a privilege for us to recommend and deliver great digital game deals to you. We have been extremely fortunate to have you as part of our awesome community," the post reads. "Thank you for the support and making all this possible. We will be investing in other ways to deliver great content and introduce game promotions through Razer Gold, our virtual credits system."
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I have about 40 keys unredeemed right now-- mostly from buying bundles and getting things I can't play (anything FPS gives me migraines), already have, or have no interest in. And the last time I tried trading, I realized I spent about 45 minutes for 3$, so nowadays, I just host a giveaway on a few communities I'm in once a year.
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When I get a spare key, usually a redundant key included with a bundle, I post it on a vintage gamers' group I belong to. Usually, nobody bothers to redeem it :)
Never heard of 'em (Score:3)
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Different payment options, different amounts to pay.
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That would be great if Steam had been abusing their position as the only real digital game retailer since 2004 but they haven't. New games cost the same $49.99 or $59.99 if you buy it on Steam or buy it anywhere else. Steam also has more a lot more sales with deep discounts than any of their competitors have over the last few years. Sure you can point here and there to a lower sale price on PLATFORM X but in general Steam usually sells games for the same price as any competitor that has popped up and it was
Epic Game Store and Origin hopefully next (Score:2)
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Origin won't go down until EA collapses.
Epic Games Store is a bit different since they are bleeding money for "exclusives". They don't seem to produce as many games, so they may not be able to justify their own service.
Have they closed down SoftMiner yet? (Score:5, Informative)
Razer is one of the least respected computer peripheral manufacturers. Not only do they have a reputation for mid to lower-than-par quality of some of their products, and for requiring their Razer Synapse software to run on the Windows host to enable many functions on their keyboards and mice.
They are infamous for using ambiguous and misleading marketing, misusing terminology to mean different things than what is industry-standard, thus making their products appear better than they really are. In other words: more bullshit than substance. Sometimes right outside the edge of fraudulent territory.
The worst thing, though, might be Razer Softminer [guru3d.com]: A cryptocurrency mining app. It mines real cryptocurrency for Razer (it is unclear which), and in return the user would get credits in Razer's rewards program.
Considering that Razer caters to the gullible in the first place: often kids with gaming PCs, but who are not paying the energy bills, you could say that they are encouraging kids to steal from their parents on their behalf.
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I don't mind the build quality of the BlackWidow keyboard I used to have. The USB cable wasn't too keen on the 90-degree bend I got stuck doing as a result of using it with a laptop, but the Cherry MX Blue keys were the selling point, and they were true to form.
I don't mind Synapse in isolation, but my big gripe about it is that it requires an account. It's not possible to create macros for the macro keys without an account for 'cloud syncing', and that wasn't terribly well stipulated before purchase...so I
Typical Razer product. (Score:2)
Gets introduced, works okay for a while, and then just stops working after about a year...
They had no enticing reason to go there (Score:2)
They started out somewhat strong with an interesting discount concept. Offer games at a discount somewhat close to other third party stores that sell steam keys, but then for any of their 4 'promo' games you also get a 10$ voucher back that you can use on anything 20$+. It was a good way to get people to keep coming back.
Only problem is after a couple months they stopped offering any real discount on games and did things like 2% off NBA/Wrestling game of this year. When comparable stores already offered 20%