I had an old version of this keyboard, a bit of a cheaper model, and I LOVED IT. The feel. The key pressure. The sound. Everything was perfect for my hands and typing speed. I don't even use it for gaming, just writing. Unfortunately, my old one broke on me after a year so I was hesitant to get another one. I got another cheaper-ish keyboard from a different company, and it was horrible. Everything was wrong. The keys were too big. It hurt to type and still I put off investing in a new one of these.
Now that I have one again, I'm sad I waited so long. I actually enjoy typing again and don't get so frustrated with all the mistakes. I'd rather risk replacing this one every year than use whatever the other keyboard I had was. Hopefully that first one was just a fluke. I can't say I always take the best care of my equipment, so it could be on me too.
We'll see.

The keyboard is great and my son is very happy with it. However, I requested it be shipped in Amazon packaging because it was a gift and I wanted it to be a surprise. Instead it arrived without that packaging and was fully visible, so the birthday surprise was ruined.

Looks and feels great. Only thing keeping me from giving it a 5 star and would make it better is if the arm wrest was padded.

With modern day keyboards, I have noticed a lot of keys don't want to go down at weird angles... sadly, not all fingers are shaped perfectly straight and modern day keyboards are terrible for that. This keyboard breaks the mold and is great through and through. The LED is too bright for me, so I disabled it, and the slope at the front of the keyboard is useless to me personally, but the keyboard itself is worth it and more.

You'll never key a key that is crooked and won't go down, the letters and numbers stay on very well, and if you want a specific color to cool... you can do that too. All of the keys are very responsive and I am happy to say it doesn't require any dumb software to get started - unless you want to change the colors a bunch - and even that software is fine.

I purchased two of these now (one for my kid) and even at this point - if anything goes wrong with it, I'd buy another with a smile for how well it has performed through gaming and countless emails - and amazon reviews haha!

I know that some people are really picky about keyboards. When I started looking into getting a new one for myself, I saw lots of people talking about things like how raised they buttons are, how much noise they make, layout, etc. Personally even though I use my computer a lot, and I'm always typing, I don't care that much. My only preference is (and it is just a preference for me, not a deal breaker) is I like lower, non-raised keys which makes typing more comfortable and less strenuous on the fingers, though it's worth mentioning since this is a gaming keyboard, I don't think it really makes much difference when gaming.

My other preference, is I like a "full" keyboard layout. I don't care if the overall keyboard is big because it's a wired keyboard, so obviously it's for a stationary setup (if your not moving it around, why does size matter?) Also I like having the numpad, which I use quite a bit.

Anyway, the whole reason I even decided to buy a new keyboard is I have gaming mouse that is also razer and I've really come to appreciate how cool having the ability to rebind and macro commands to different keys. My birthday came up, and I decided to get a cheap razer keyboard just so it would work with Razer Synapse.

Honestly if your a keyboard connoisseur and you want to be able to control the RGB lights and have the keys make just the right amount of clicking sound or whatever, I'm sure you'll find something wrong with the keyboard and not like because it is pretty basic.

If you are like me however and are just looking for a slight upgrade or something that works with Razer Synapse, this is a great keyboard for a reasonable price!

My only complaint is by default the RGB lights are pretty bright, it's kinda jarring at night, even if you are using your computer with a nearby light to keep the room from being dark (which you should be doing if your looking at screen, it's better for your eyes). Also color of the light cycles on its own, which I don't really like. I don't even really care about RGB lights other than just allowing me to see the keys in the dark, so I'd rather they just stay one color. I don't care that much about it to take off a star though, and I've heard there are ways to adjust this either with third party software, or through something provided by Razer.