I don't know about Razer recently, but I have a 13 button Logitech mouse (G700s) and it would be essentially useless without the Logitech software to configure it. I assume Razer mice are the same, you could technically use them without Synapse, but if you're doing that you may as well have bought a Microsoft Intellimouse instead.

And Synapse did require a login for several years. Looks like it doesn't anymore, thankfully: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/razer-synapse-3-removes-lo...

Personal mouse experience, I had two Razers that died right outside warranty, while my Logitech is at >6 years. Those were before their driver shenanigans, but the drivers aren't even the main reason I wouldn't switch back.

My Razer mouse is basically broken (it's not that the sensitivity is too high, it's just...completely off) until you install and log in with their app. Only after you log in is the mouse movement fixed.

I would never buy another Razer product, specifically because of this.

They absolutely are necessary if you want to disable or configure lighting, change DPI, acceleration, etc.

I will never buy a Razer product again.

No shit. I can't configure the lights on my former razer mouse without logging in.

Must be why I'm using a Steelseries now.

Edit: Apparently they gave up on that idiotic requirement. Sorry Razer, too late. Not touching your products ever again.

Edit 2: And since we're actually talking about Oculus, for me it died when they sold to Facebook. You needed to be pretty naive to think it won't come down to this in the long run.

> (and probably does a lot of data mining)

Not just data, either. A year ago or so, Razer was pushing a cryptocurrency miner along with their driver package:

https://www.razer.com/eu-en/softminer

And the Facebook account was in no way mandatory for Oculus until today's announcement we're commenting on. What's your point?

> They just have an app that auto-updates drivers (and probably does a lot of data mining) but you don't need to use it to use the device

Uh, yeah, updating drivers for mice. Just WTF? I get that it makes sense to have a capability of correcting bugs, but that should not require an app.