Is redragon that bad?

[appleseedcarrot]

Look, many americans underestimate chinese products cause they're so cheap compared to american products and people think its a scam. Not really, its the american products that are generally overpriced. Huawei p20 pro, an iphone x killer runs in china for hundreds of money less than the iphone x (iphone x is way more expensive in china), and the s9 can also be found for 300 dollars less than a iphone x. If your one of those people who are just going to tell me that chinese products all suck and stuff, please dont. Now, onto the topic.

Im ordering a redragon k552 (red led) and all my friends with expensive 100 dollars mech keyboards are saying that its a fake mech kb and scam. I told them that outemu switches are just clones of cherry mx, not fake ones, but they dont care. I even looked at a sound comparison and the youtuber and general audience (comments) said that they preferred the outemu switches. Are my friends right? Or was i right to buy it instead of spending a hundred on an american well known brand?

[Arya]

I've only ever had two "American" keyboards, an old IBM that I deeply regret throwing away and a DasKeyboard Professional. Neither was actually made in America. DasKeyboard has an enormous plate on the bottom reading "Designed in Austin, TX" and then just below that it says "Made in China" in tiny font.

[IceFoxX]

Originally posted by Omega:

All these "American products" are made in china/Asia. This incudes your iPhone, and your Xbox etc..

Sure, you can get some really cheap stuff via AliExpress, but I highly recommend against buying hardware.


Issue is that these china brand items severely lack quality and support. And when buying computers, phones etc.. you never know if there is malware on it. They WILL put malware on it just to earn a few more $$$ my Lenovo laptop from which I am writing this is proof. And then it's also quite common for "fake" hardware to be sold from china, it looks like a GTX 1050, smells like a GTX 1050, appears in system manager as a GTX 1050, but it's actually a GTX 550 TI.

malware....so just possible if its from there????intel and rest?!?!? impossbile for backdoors???

[John Doe]

Originally posted by Wolfey:

I've only ever had two "American" keyboards, an old IBM that I deeply regret throwing away and a DasKeyboard Professional. Neither was actually made in America. DasKeyboard has an enormous plate on the bottom reading "Designed in Austin, TX" and then just below that it says "Made in China" in tiny font.

I wouldn't call them "American". For instance, American cars are the ones that are made in the U.S. IMO, it has to be made in the States to be "American". Millions of designs are outsourced from the Silicon Valley to China.

What really is American would be something like my Mesa Mark V amp. It says made in Petaluma, California on its back.

Another example of non-Chinese make would be Dali speakers, they are made in "Denmark". This says on their back. You can't say some $250 Harman Kardon speaker is American, because it's not. Cheaper Harman Kardon speakers all come from China.

[Falro the Great]

Originally posted by John Doe:

Originally posted by Wolfey:

I've only ever had two "American" keyboards, an old IBM that I deeply regret throwing away and a DasKeyboard Professional. Neither was actually made in America. DasKeyboard has an enormous plate on the bottom reading "Designed in Austin, TX" and then just below that it says "Made in China" in tiny font.

I wouldn't call them "American". For instance, American cars are the ones that are made in the U.S. IMO, it has to be made in the States to be "American".

Most "American" cars (Ford, Chevy, GM, etc.) have less manufacturing in America than cars from the likes of Honda, Toyota, and other "Asian" car brands.

[John Doe]

Originally posted by Falro the Great:

Originally posted by John Doe:

I wouldn't call them "American". For instance, American cars are the ones that are made in the U.S. IMO, it has to be made in the States to be "American".

Most "American" cars (Ford, Chevy, GM, etc.) have less manufacturing in America than cars from the likes of Honda, Toyota, and other "Asian" car brands.

Depends. There are Fords made in Detroit, then Chevrolets made in Asia. I was obviously referring to the ones that are built in the States.

[koen!!]

I know this is kind of dead by today, but no. Redragon isn't bad at all, especially their more minimal keyboards like the K552, etc... Similarly to Royal Kludge, Redragon own the brand and are actually quite good at making boards, at least in terms of today's standards.

[Robinho]

The peripherals aren t bad at all,but the softwares are trash,I have K587 keyboard and hands down,its the best keyboard in my budget,but the software just unbinds random keys,sometimes doesnt even start

[r.linder]

Redragon is decent on a budget, though their K551 and K552 are wicked for the price. Functioning RGB mechanical keyboards that don't need a program to control satisfactorily.

[Monk]

I'll simply point out that Samsung was originally seen as a cheap crap brand and vastly inferior to sharp and Panasonic etc.

Oh how the times have changed.

While not great, red dragon is good for the price, mostly, I recently gave my mate my old pc and set him up with red dragon peripherals for that very reason, I got him everything he needed for less than half the price of my mouse or keyboard alone and they seemed perfectly fine.

[Tiberius]

dont knw much abt reddragon, but... lots of custom keyboard parts are made and bought from aliexpress and taobao

[Red™]

Red Dragons are fine. Saw some pretty good cheap gaming mouse for less than 20 dollars and they’re from red dragon

[Raoul]

Actually some of the highest quality tools are now manufactured in China and the old stereotyping of only cheap low quality stuff coming from there is nonsense. You can get cheaply made stuff as well as some of the highest quality from there that would easily rival the best in the world. This is because they want to cater to all segments of the market including the highest end. You need to know where to look and buy from which can be a challenge due to the language barrier though and most of the time the product will just be manufactured there and branding of the company added later so that they can export and sell you a named product at a much higher price in the west. Certain laws; patents, licensing and contracts will also affect quality and availability.

Planned obsolescence goes back to the innovation of electricity and if you do want to look into it then check out how light bulbs were redesigned over time to fail, essentially an idea of creating a certain relationship with the consumer. I'm not here to say if it's a good or bad thing, just stating facts. Every product is designed with a specific lifespan at the manufacturing level and as new innovations come around you may or may not get lucky at the time but that will depend on the company. Having any sort of brand loyalty anymore is a bit of a moot point IMO.

[IceFoxX]

Originally posted by Raoul:

Actually some of the highest quality tools are now manufactured in China and the old stereotyping of only cheap low quality stuff coming from there is nonsense. You can get cheaply made stuff as well as some of the highest quality from there that would easily rival the best in the world. This is because they want to cater to all segments of the market including the highest end. You need to know where to look and buy from which can be a challenge due to the language barrier though and most of the time the product will just be manufactured there and branding of the company added later so that they can export and sell you a named product at a much higher price in the west. Certain laws; patents, licensing and contracts will also affect quality and availability.

Planned obsolescence goes back to the innovation of electricity and if you do want to look into it then check out how light bulbs were redesigned over time to fail, essentially an idea of creating a certain relationship with the consumer. I'm not here to say if it's a good or bad thing, just stating facts. Every product is designed with a specific lifespan at the manufacturing level and as new innovations come around you may or may not get lucky at the time but that will depend on the company. Having any sort of brand loyalty anymore is a bit of a moot point IMO.

You forget that the biggest companies have been producing there for much longer... Even with a Made in (somewhere) the biggest part can still be produced in China. Made in only deals with the last important work step but not with any of the many others before.

[Raoul]

Originally posted by IceFoxX:

You forget that the biggest companies have been producing there for much longer... Even with a Made in (somewhere) the biggest part can still be produced in China. Made in only deals with the last important work step but not with any of the many others before.

That is a good point but what made in deals with or whatever gimmickry, marketing or psychology the company employs is probably best left for another discussion.

Going back to OP, you done the absolute right thing to research it yourself and buy in that way. Think the software can be improved but I've had corsair, logitech and now on a hyperx keyboard and I always end up hating and disabling the software but I don't use any of the macro features etc.

[Carlsberg]

I have a Redragon gaming mouse and i like it, been using it a few months now trouble free. Glitchy drivers have been an issue for some and i think thats because they get them from the wrong place, redragonzone.

For drivers go to;

redragonusa.com - I have not had an issue with drivers from here.