For playing Counter Strike 2 and World of Warcraft.

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    There are unfortunately no gaming mice made in Europe. End Game Gear makes nice wired esports-centric mice and are based in Germany 🇩🇪, not made in Europe though.

    If you do want the closest thing to a made in Europe mouse, the Fair mouse by NagerIT (unrelated to Fairphone) has many parts made in Germany 🇩🇪, but not all (they are super transparent about what comes from where), but it’s definitely not a gaming mouse. It could be nice for non-gaming use cases though, and it comes in fun colours too

    edit: Here is a chart that NagerIT made detailing what parts are made from where: https://www.nager-it.de/static/pdf/en_lieferkette.pdf

    German version if you want that: https://www.nager-it.de/static/pdf/lieferkette.pdf

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        13 hours ago

        Oh, haven’t heard about that brand before! Looks like they do manufacture their mice in Germany 🇩🇪, albeit they focus on tiny fingertip mice.

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      I would recommend against Logitech, as it’s part American, and they floated the idea of a subscription-based “forever mouse” (not a good look at all)

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          I mean, BMW proposed a subscription to heated seats that were already in the car, turns out big corporations are often very greedy

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            The proposal, which luckily received enough flak to be put down, was that if the original owner doesn’t buy the car with heated seats, the next one can just get it as a subscription. So at least you’re getting the car for a little bit smaller markup if you don’t get the heated seats option. Though it’s still incredibly dishonest because it turns out that it’s cheaper for them to just install heated seats in every single car anyway, so why not just make them standard at that point and raise each car’s price by like a hundred euros.

            Logitech went even worse than that, the subscription was supposed to give you… software updates??? Why are those behind a subscription? I don’t even use logi link or whatever it was called and I don’t see myself paying for updates to that. What kind of software could a mouse have that its updates are worth any amount of recurring payment?

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            I need to remind myself that not all shit like this gets through. But still, the fact that it gets proposed in the first place, in all seriousness and with a straight face, is insanely maddening