I registered on the forum just due to this topic, lulz.
Anyway, my experience comes from changing from a Thermaltake Challenger Pro with a ISO Layout for a Metadot Das Keyboard Model S Professional Silent with US Layout (old Costar model, thank heavens) and the feedback for it was:
"US$ 160 and it's not even ISO layout? How am I supposed to type in Portuguese in this thing?" < There are ways to write in Portuguese even with an US layout keyboard, it's not hard or anything, people are just dumb and don't like anything that is "different". Nowadays I think I should have bought the blank model.
"Bloody hell, this thing is noisy" < Meh, I wonder what it'd be like if I had bought the Cherry MX Blue one
"This is crap, my keyboard has backlight and costs much less" < As if backlight actually matters to some REAL gamer or a typist. Backlight is just for appearance's sake, nothing else.
"For the same price, you could have bought a Logitech G110, which is far better" < C'mon, do some research and tell me the same thing later. Just check the god damn disassemble pictures for both and I bet you won't say the same. Better yet, try typing on them.
Anyway, I learned that gamers are ****ing sad creatures. They don't buy a keyboard that fits what they really NEED. They buy a goddamn keyboard that fits only what they WANT.
Gamer logic = Yeah, that LCD display which is incompatible with most games is the reason I'll choose this keyboard over that mechanical thingie which looks the same as my 10 bucks Dell keyboard. Talk about some overpriced ****, this membrane keyboard is surely better.