I bought this specifically for the button layout. I play MechWarrior Online and need to be able to press a lot of buttons. The 6 keys/buttons for your thumb have great feel, are easy to tell apart in the heat of the moment, and all are easily accessible without being too easy to accidentally press. I have accidentally pressed the first/main button with my index finger while adjusting the DPI with those smaller buttons, but it's only happened literally about 1% of the time, and less often as time goes on.
The shape and texture of the mouse are great for me. I am 6'2" and wear large gloves, and I play with a modified claw grip -- something between a palm and a claw. One reviewer said it didn't work with his grip style because he always would press one of the thumb buttons when he tried to pick it up -- I have no such problem and have tried other grip styles to recreate it, and I just don't see how that could be an unavoidable problem. The textured area on the lower part of it is great, it doesn't feel gritty or low quality. The rubber in the palm area is very comfortable. The plastic of the 2 main buttons is very smooth and curved just right. The buttons are very long and would suit a very large handed person very well, but they actuate the button very easily whether you press the very tip or if you press even as close as 1 centimeter from the base of the button. The thumb buttons should be no problem for all but those with the very smallest of hands, as in small children and those with achondroplasia.
As for gaming with a wireless mouse, I was a little concerned before I bought this one. I didn't buy this because I wanted a wireless mouse, I bought it because the button layout is perfect for MechWarrior. My prior mouse was a G9, a top-of-the-line wired laser gaming mouse. I have found the G602 to be just as accurate as the G9 and with no perceptible input lag at all. Furthermore, if you are concerned about the batteries running out at a critical moment, don't be. A little window pops up in the upper corner when it gets down to 20%, and again at 10%, and I don't know if it does it again after that because that's when I changed it. There was never a performance degradation as the batteries were consumed. I use
Sanyo eneloop rechargeable batteries
to keep the cost and environmental impact down.
The battery life is actually better than they claim. I play MechWarrior about 10-20 hours per week, in addition to all the time I spend using it for school/work, shopping, etc, and the batteries it came with lasted about 3 months -- without ever turning the mouse off, and with the mouse in performance mode the whole time. In terms of the number of hours from putting the batteries in to removing them (not the number of hours of actual mousing), it was well over 2,000 hours.
Literally my only complaint with this mouse is that sometimes I accidently actuate the right main button if I bump the front of the mouse into something like a glass of water or my keyboard or something, because the button is so long.
Combine this mouse with the
Logitech G240 Cloth Gaming Mouse Pad
or other cloth game pad and you will be in gaming bliss. (Ultra high DPI is a marketing gimmick like megapixels for cameras... it matters, but only to a certain extent, and it's usefulness is bottle-necked by several other factors)
[UPDATE 6/28/14]
A couple of days ago the middle mouse button stopped working. The scroll wheel still works to scroll, but pressing it down suddenly stopped working. I googled the problem and found a page on the Logitech official forums where other users are having the same issue, one of whom noted that they could make it work if they pressed it down hard. I tried that, and yes, it worked for me, too. Before you think that maybe I'm just a bear and I broke it by always pressing hard, I'd like to deny that. I've always pressed just enough to actuate the "click," and I still hear the click with a gentle pressure -- it just doesn't actually do anything unless I press it like I'm trying to crush a wood-tick.
About 12 hours after this problem developed and I'd had some time to investigate, I called Logitech and requested a warranty replacement, which they've granted. I don't have to send this one in or anything, so absolutely no money out of pocket. Supposedly I will have my new G602 in a week or so. I'll update here to let you know how that goes. I've had a good experience with warranty replacement from Logitech in the past when my solar keyboard started wigging out on me, so I'm hopeful this will go smoothly.
UPDATE #2, 7/4/15: So Logitech did send me another one right away, and I've been using that one for more than a year now with no problems. This remains my all-time favorite mouse. The buttons still feel great, the battery life is incredible, and I now thoroughly despise trying to play games with any other mouse. I've found that this mouse is also great for surfing the web: the Logitech software lets you set up different profiles for different applications and it automatically detects which program you are in and switches to that profile. So in MWO, it's all set up for that, but when I alt-tab out to surf the web it uses that profile, which lets me use the thumb buttons to go forward, backward, hold down one to open a link in a new tab, another button will make it full-screen, another reloads the page. Very handy!
| Wireless Type | 5.8 GHz Radio Frequency, 802.11a/b/g/n |
|---|---|
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 250 Hours |
