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I am not a gamer. The price gouging on things gamers enjoy is irritating. It happened with headphones, mice, and now keyboards. As “gamers” and particularly streamers grew as a market category, the prices for goods associated with them went insane. Even considering inflation, $150 for a Logitech keyboard is just nuts, even if it is mechanical.

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> Even considering inflation, $150 for a Logitech keyboard is insane, even if it is mechanical.

I don't think you have been looking at Logitech keyboards for a while. Logitech Craft, which is a few years old retails at $169. MX Keys (which this is presumably the mechanical version of) costs $119

I don't think the MX or the Craft series are aimed at gamers, but at office workers / typists.

Logitech Gaming Keyboards, such as G413 TKL is $69 and the Pro K/DA, which is a collaboration with the League of Legends Band/mascots is $129

$150 for a logitech keyboard is in no way high for the brand, or an attempt at taking advantage of gamers.

This is a pretty standard price for mechanical keyboards, whether pre-built or self-built. Hasn't really changed much in the last 5 or so years, that I am aware.

I do agree, though, that they do take advantage via FOMO or perceived elitism, to a degree, with such pricing.

The counterpoint to this is laptops.

If you're doing CAD and you need to get a laptop with a decent GPU in it, the enterprise version of that will cost you twice as much as the gaming version.

Mechanical keyboards are actually expensive. I looked into making one once and it seemed that way, at least. I was shocked and dropped the project.

Worse than the price inflation are all the RGB LEDs spammed over everything. Can't stand the gamer aesthetic taking over a market.

Yeah, I just need something that will send the appropriate interrupt to the OS when I press a button.

Mate, buying a mechanical keyboard a decade ago was nigh on impossible.

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