I posted this in the Razer subreddit but thought it could also do some good here. Even though I'm sure the readers of this subreddit will be less surprised.

Posting this to hopefully save someone tthe future heaarttache of having tto deaal with this productt. This keyboard has a fatal manufacturing flaw that WILL have it failing on you within weeks. I'm on my third keyboard sincce Seppt 2023 and all three have failed the saame way. Keys repeaatedly double or triple strike, or don't register at all. I've lost all confidencce ttyping on this keyboard and consttaantly haave to be waattching for its mistakes. (As is evident by this unedited paragraph)

I bought this keyboard not long after it was announced and had the unfortunate reality of being a early adopter when reviews were scarce. Now the amazon page is FULL of one-star reviews echoing my same story. I returned my first one while it was still within the return window, and RMA'd my second one. My third one started failing within weeks.

This is honestly just a shame. Razer has otherwise made a beautiful keyboard, but it's just completely unusable. I've escalated this issue to Amazon and will be taking a $60 restocking fee hit just to get this thing out of my life. I had navigated away from Razer due to quality issues in the past, but this product seemed promising so I gave them another shot. So much for that. It's really quite sad that you can't buy a $200+ product without risk of it just being e-waste out of the box. Buyers beware.

I have never owned a Razer keyboard or really any gaming keyboard except for like a red dragon key board years ago, mostly have custom/enthusiast type keyboards but I like razer and own 6 of their mice and want a flagship decked out rgb keyboard that has chroma and can be used as both a gaming keeb and a daily driver for work to kind of round out the setup for when I want to feel like embracing the gamerness aesthsetic with rgb. So when I heard there is a hotswappable 75 percent keyboard with tactiles (an unusual choice for switches but welcomed for multi purpose) I got interested.

However I heard a lot of things about double clicking etc. I had the same thing happen to me when I got the GMMK pro and used their orange pandas. Had to replace like a half a dozen switches, but maybe it was something I did as it was my first time lubing switches or maybe it was just the combo of those switches and that board because the issue never occurred when I used those switches in a different board or put different switches in the GMMK pro.

So I am curious, is it just the switches that are the problem? Because those can be swapped I guess even though I would like to use them. Or is the issue still prevalent?

Also does anybody have the pro version, I am kind of interested in it because I dont really fuck with full keebs much but I like that it has almost everything you could want, knobs, macro buttons, rgb to the max, could work as a daily driver for sure because of the numpad, but the fact its not swappable with the switches is a pretty big down side. Or is there maybe an older razer keyboard or different model anyone recommends?

EDIT: I am most likely going to hold off on the recent line of black widow keyboards or just the v4 pro but am interested in the v3 full keyboard as alterative and will probably get the v4 75 down the road like a year from now if the issues are addressed and was curious what people thought of the v3?

Edit2: ended up getting a v3 to test the waters. It was 80ish bucks. I’ll probably get the v4 at some point.