I actually originally bought the qfr, but some of the switches decided to act weirdly (many started to loose a ton of their click and tactileness) about a month into using it, so I rma'd it, and last Friday I a replacement back, and they gave me back a qfr-i. When I had the qfr, I thought that I didn't need backlighting, but during the rma, I actually bought a used blackwidow ultimate 2013 with mx blues (seller said it had mx browns, but the box, how it types, and removing keycaps shows it has mx blues, but even though its a razer, $65 for a backlit full keyboard was still nice) that had backlighting on it, and I guess that board made me start to want backlighting, so when my qfr-i came, I was pretty happy about having backlighting on the qfr-i.