Yeah.. I heard keyboard enthusiasts doesn't really like Corsair. I could agree that bit of the price of corsair's products (any gamer brand actually) is just something that you pay for its brand. I've learned about brands like Leopold, Ducky etc. But, Corsair is still very good brand even when compared to those brands imo. I was using 5 years old 20 Turkish Liras (which means just 2-3 dollar or less when converted), keyboard. That keyboard never had any issues even though it was insanely cheap. Enthusiasts are talking about build quality of Corsair keyboards in a bad way (at least for its price maybe i dont know) but, i dont think i will try to break walls with my keyboard. Build quality means durability right?(tell me if im wrong) Even though my insanely cheap keyboard with worst build quality never had any issues(it still works btw), i dont really think Corsair will have an issue just because its build quality is lower than Leopold's. It still feels like a concrete. Switches are Cherry MX which is pretty durable and nice and keycaps are PBT double shot which is again pretty durable. I am not gonna punch or not gonna throw my keyboard out of window, so why would i cry for build quality that much? I think build quality difference not very big between corsair and leopold for example? i mean corsair still feels pretty solid.
Another thing is customizable keyboards etc. i think. As i am not an enthusiast, i dont really need something that customizable. Changing keycaps or lubing, generally customizing is not my type. Enthusiasts are looking for best of best thats why they dont like gamer brands i think. But if you are not type of guy that wants to customize keyboard, you can actually buy gamer brands like Corsair. Calling Corsair's keyboards "junk" is not something that sensible person would say in my opinion. You are paying extra money for rgb and brand, yeah that's right. But, its still quality keyboard.
As i said, i am really beginner about keyboards and dont really know about it but, customizing keyboard maybe even takes more money from you i think. As you are customizing that keyboard with quality/expensive keycaps etc. From what i feel, i dont really think it is good idea to call Corsair as garbage.
I have never had a Leopold board, and never plan to. Nothing I have ever seen from them interests me besides
maybe their 65% Topre boards, for kicks and giggles. I do have a Rosewill keyboard that's basically the same as a Leopold with different (better, in my opinion) stabilizers, and it doesn't seem like anything special besides the stabilizers since Costars aren't in many boards I have seen. It seems like any other random/pedestrian mid-range mechanical keyboard. I don't have the
real deal but the PCB and case are apparently almost exactly the same, so how much different can it be? Unless they're somehow way different, I would rather have my Corsairs.
The problem is that Corsair probably dominated the overall mechanical market, back when the majority of people using mechanical boards were just starting to because they had never heard of them before and were being told they were great for gaming (I would be included in this group). You had the old guard that grew up on Model Ms, Decks/TG3s, Leopolds, etc that all had mechanicals for less ... commercialized/imagined reasons and felt offended by the existence of gaming boards. They were the hipsters that used mechanicals before it was cool, so of course they were offended by their commercialization and corny marketing.
The proliferation of Corsair boards gave them a target, and also no shortage of anecdotal accounts of problems with them, so Corsair became a crappy brand within their echo chamber.
Now that the community's ranks have swelled, that notion has held because people that start out with Corsair, or Razer, or Cooler Master, or Logitech take the group think as gospel because they don't really learn anything at all about mechanicals until they start looking for more in places like this.
In my opinion, even though I routinely use arcane keyboards with solid Zinc cases and bygone switches that simply aren't even economical to produce anymore, the brand tribalism is all overblown. Razer usually makes a lot of cheap crap (based on experience, not group think), but I'm sure even they have got some solid products. If you find a 65% you like on Amazon for $40, and it serves you well for 10+ years, there's no reason for you to care what people say about it.
