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Ultrastick 360 vs Mag Stik Plus : My review

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kowal:
wastage off time.... for any explanation. this guy is child or yokel.
please deleted this subject

Gray_Area:
Woww. Some serious anti-semitism.....I mean....sentiment here. I don't know what to say except that the U360s are pretty tuff. It took me months or more of slamming the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- out of it before I busted a restrictor, and years before I busted the handle threads off the shaft. So maybe we'll call you Lurch or something. The rest is fine, but severly personal and not well-rounded.

007craft:
I bought an ipac because I didnt originally have the u360s.  Also, I needed it anyway because my cab has more than 16 buttons. 

I compared the shaft length to the mag stick, which had a better shaft length.

I did read plenty of reviews before I bought my parts.  The problem was I had tons of negative and positive reviews for the mag-sticks.  I was banking on the positive reviews and it turned out that all the stuff I read about in the negatives, was way to noticeable for me.  Like I said, my friend was equally annoyed by those sticks.  And I'm happy with the U360s, just not the price I paid for them.

Warborg:

--- Quote from: 007craft on March 03, 2013, 09:00:37 pm ---I bought an ipac because I didnt originally have the u360s.  Also, I needed it anyway because my cab has more than 16 buttons. 

I compared the shaft length to the mag stick, which had a better shaft length.

I did read plenty of reviews before I bought my parts.  The problem was I had tons of negative and positive reviews for the mag-sticks.  I was banking on the positive reviews and it turned out that all the stuff I read about in the negatives, was way to noticeable for me.  Like I said, my friend was equally annoyed by those sticks.  And I'm happy with the U360s, just not the price I paid for them.

--- End quote ---

I certainly hope that you put on your asbestos underwear prior to your initial post...  Also, hoping for anyone to listen to you here and calling the other users of these boards "elitists" for disagreeing with you is a pretty quick way to assure that your posts are completely disregarded as nothing but a rant.  Add that your adding a qualifier right off the bat about not having any real experience with the original hardware that inspired what you are reviewing vs many of the people here (such as myself) that grew up in the arcades doesn't help, especially considering this IS a niche market catering to those classic gamers that grew up around this stuff to begin with.

And because this IS a niche market is relevant to the pricing that you are complaining about.  I'm not sure you had realistic expectations trying to dabble in this hobby and didn't sufficiently research what to expect coming into it.  The people that sell this custom hardware, such as Ultimarc and GroovyGameGear (both which sell excellent products, are very responsive to their customers, and provide excellent support) are selling hardware that they have done the R&D on themselves, and are manufacturing themselves.  These do not come off an assembly line and are sold on Target shelves everywhere, these are manufactured and sold in limited numbers which is naturally going to spell a higher end-user cost.  When I decided to build my first cabinet I was on a serious budget and kept the costs down by performing a bunch of the stuff as DIY (such as hacking gamepads and a keyboard for interfaces, coming up with a cheap way to make my own spinner hacking a mouse and using cheap Home Depot parts along with a roller blade wheel), but I did sufficient reading to at least know what I was getting into before I started.

So I appreciate your opinion, you have every right to your own and to be able to express it, that much is certain.  However, you yourself qualified your whole review by saying you had very little experience in the subject matter, and were also attempting to use the controls you bought for games that weren't originally written to use those controls so it makes your view on them questionable, and then to get all arrogant and judgy when called out on that makes you seem new to the internet.  Don't put a rant out there and be surprised to be called out on it.

Xiaou2:
Nobody likes hearing an Opinion that does not go along with how they feel about something.

 It does not matter if you have more experience, or none at all.

 Nobody likes a critic... unless that critic is a guy who always reviews things he likes, and or is super tip toe about
putting out any kind of slant at all.   Like those guys who just show multiple product, but dont put out any personal
feelings about it. (just merely data specs ,pics, etc)

 Dont take anything personal.  You cant win over the entire choir, especially the fanboyist's.

 It doesnt always matter if you have previous experience or not, in regards to poor control.  If something isnt working well... its not working well.  Its plain and simple.  You dont need to test 100 sticks to know it.

 And of course, he doesnt have any other recommendations.  Does that matter?  If I say I did not enjoy a movie, do I have to recommend something else instead?  Nope.

 He added to the already existing complaints about the sticks.  Plain and simple.   Its up to others to decide if this is helpful to their future purchases, or not.

 I will also say, that paying over $100 for a stick is very expensive, and for many, wouldnt be worth it if the controls were not absolutely perfect for type of use its said to be able to handle.

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