Corsair #rgbgate: K65/K70/K95 RGB support only 512 colors

[Lain1911]

This sounds like something Blizzard would do :|

[nubbinator]

You can not play a game with low framerates as well as you can with high framerates, but you can use a keyboard with slightly choppy color transitions just as well as you could use a keyboard with smooth color transitions. I am pretty that the premium price was due to the fact that it was the only RGB mechanical board for a little while, and it is still the only genuine cherry mx RGB board out there. I am not saying that people are wrong for being a little jimmy rustled because they bought a product expecting something that was not provided in reality, but they should get over it. Corsair has acknowledged their problems and said they would work on fixing it.

Remind me to tell you that next time you're sold something that doesn't perform as advertised after you paid a premium for it.  People have every right to have their jimmies rustled for being lied to about a product.  Just because Corsair said they're working on it doesn't mean they'll fix it or make it right.  Just look at their products that used Link to get an idea of how Corsair "makes things right" and "fixes things".

[wes1099]

You can not play a game with low framerates as well as you can with high framerates, but you can use a keyboard with slightly choppy color transitions just as well as you could use a keyboard with smooth color transitions. I am pretty that the premium price was due to the fact that it was the only RGB mechanical board for a little while, and it is still the only genuine cherry mx RGB board out there. I am not saying that people are wrong for being a little jimmy rustled because they bought a product expecting something that was not provided in reality, but they should get over it. Corsair has acknowledged their problems and said they would work on fixing it.

Remind me to tell you that next time you're sold something that doesn't perform as advertised after you paid a premium for it.  People have every right to have their jimmies rustled for being lied to about a product.  Just because Corsair said they're working on it doesn't mean they'll fix it or make it right.  Just look at their products that used Link to get an idea of how Corsair "makes things right" and "fixes things".

OK, will do. Probably won't happen though since I usually don't buy stuff like that until I know it will do what I want/need it to do. I am done with this thread.

[wes1099]

Corsair has acknowledged their problems and said they would work on fixing it.

People get all mad when they are lied to. It's understandable.

Corsair promised a keyboard with 16.2 million colours. Turns out they are actually 512 colours, While that's 510 more than other keyboards, its 16 million less than they were promised.

Why does this matter? Well corsair says they'll fix it, but when they come out with the new version of the software and say it's fixed, why should we trust them again? They promised me 16 million colours when I first bought it, why shoudl I trust them now (or ever)? That's the issue here.

Yes, I understand this...

[tp4tissue]

I don't understand how they could've done goofed soooo badly..

I mean.. I could understand if say, you truncated something at the wrong place..

But, this is a bit far out.

[Oobly]

I'm just going with the information I have access to and this is what I Get for trying to help people.

Whatever dude, whine and complain about an amazing keyboard while I have fun with it -- I don't care anymore, Have a Good Day.

Saying "I'm okay with it, so you must be too" is not helping people. Giving people as much detailed information as possible about the issue, the current situation, what Corsair is doing about it, etc.. is helping people.

This issue doesn't really affect me, though, since I wouldn't buy any of the Corsair range due to the non-standard bottom row (and if a company gets that wrong on a Cherry MX board by not being aware of the reasons for having a standard layout especially after having their mechanical boards in the market with this issue for as long as Corsair has, they're probably getting other things wrong, too). But it does make me upset that they released a product that doesn't do what they say.

Releasing a product before it's ready is only okay if the customer knows they're getting a "beta" product and are okay with that. I really hope Corsair gets their code together and releases the update soon, so as few people as possible are affected. As a software developer I truly hate seeing the quality of code in MOST released products nowadays. There are very few properly designed (a lot of the flaws often come from the early stages of design, so the code is not flexible or robust enough when changes to the spec or new features are implemented, sometimes due to management not willing to spend the extra development time at that stage to do things properly, but pushing for the fastest option) and tested software products out there.

[_PixelNinja]

People should get over it? This is a $170 product were are talking about. That ain't just some pocket change for the majority of people, it's money they worked hard for. At that price, people are entitled to complain about the product not being up to what was advertised. So no, they should not just get over it.

Only until the end of 2014

Yes, but that is not my point. The purpose of the deal was for Corsair to showcase Cherry's product. I doubt very much Cherry are happy about the execution.

[katushkin]

Only until the end of 2014

Yes, but that is not my point. The purpose of the deal was for Corsair to showcase Cherry's product. I doubt very much Cherry are happy about the execution.

No, very true. However, a lot of people have just been lapping this up. Some online reviewers love the RGB, and a lot of users love it, and a lot of people are oblivious to the bad points glaring (or not glaring (LOL WASHED OUT LED JOKE)) at them.

Those people in the enthusiast community who know more about mechs than just Razer -> CM -> Model M -> else know that there are other companies who will be able to truly push this new hardware to new heights, and I'm sure Cherry won't bee too mad sitting on the big pot of gold Corsair gave them to have sole use of the new housings for a year, even if manufacturers are starting to move away from them due to slow production.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Just as a note, I'm disappointed that computer displays are still on 16.7 million colours. It might sound a lot, but that's only 256 grey shades (white to black), and a grey gradient on a website may be trying to spread say 80 shades of grey down a screen 900 pixels or more high. Something I notice with my older-generation S-IPS is grey impurity — if I display a banded gradient, each grey shade is tinted slightly (one band will be a bit pink, another a bit green), so dithered gradients look a bit odd.

We should be on 48-bit colour since a long time ago!

(Of course, retina display at 48-bit colour would be .... taxing.)

[davkol]

It's been 8 weeks since Corsair CEO said something about another 8 weeks to get the update out, and finally give their RGB keyboards proper 16.8M-color support.

So, have they lied again?

[wlhlm]

In other news: They seem to have dropped the 16.7m colors thing.

[Data]

In other news: They seem to have dropped the 16.7m colors thing.

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Probably hoping to sweep this under the rug.

[nubbinator]

In other news: They seem to have dropped the 16.7m colors thing.

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Probably hoping to sweep this under the rug.

Typical Corsair thing to do.

[berserkfan]

In other news: They seem to have dropped the 16.7m colors thing.

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Probably hoping to sweep this under the rug.

Typical Corsair thing to do.

as expected