Over the course of the past year Razer, a gaming peripheral company has opted to stop using Cherry MX keyswitches in their keyboards and keypads. Instead they have started using their own "Razer key switches", these switches are nothing more than rebranded cheap chinese garbage made by a company known as Kailh. This Chinese company saw an opprtunity when Cherry's patent on they keyswitches ran out close to a year ago. Kailh made clone copies of Cherry's key switches and began manufacturing and distributing these products. Unlike Cherry's key switches which are designed, engineered, and manufactured in Germany, Kailh manufactures their key switches in Chinese factories for a much lower cost, as the sacrifice of quality control, consistancy between individual key switches, and may more problems. Razer has opted to switch to these key switches because they are cheaper and with them they can make a larger profit off of inferior products. Razer is saving money by making this change, howver they are not transfering those savings onto the customer. They keyboards cos the same as they did before, but now they come with much cheaper, much crappier parts. It's a disgrase and they need to revert back!