MAGIC-REFINER M2 Wired Gaming Mouse - 6 RGB Backlight Modes, 12800DPI Adjustable, High Precision, Macro Programmable, Ergonomic Right-Hand Design, Plug & Play USB for PC, Laptop, Mac (Blueberry) - Perfect for FPS, MOBA Games and Office Work

I'm always on the lookout for unique peripherals to match whatever theme I have going on at the time. I stumbled across this mouse and immediately had to have it, because it matches my modern/retro keyboard so well. And the price was definitely right.It's a surprisingly well built mouse for this price range. It feels good in the hand (I have Sasquatch hands, the mouse it a bit on the larger side, a plus for me), all buttons are very tactile and satisfying to click, and the lighting looks quite nice. It's very light weight for a mouse of this size.The software was a bit tricky to find at first. There is a product website on the box, and if you go to that site and find the M2 mouse, which is what this mouse is called, download that software and install it (after translating things, it's all in Chinese), you'll find it's the wrong software when you try to run it. The M2 mouse from site on the box is a wireless mouse, and that software will not recognize this mouse. There are no images anywhere so you won't know this until you install and run the software. Instead, the correct software is at a link that's borderline hidden in a product image on the sales page, at a site that shares no name in common with anything on this product. It is the correct software though. The software is unsigned, so you'll have to bypass Windows trying to block installation.There is a weird quirk with the button mappings. Traditionally the side buttons are forward and back for browser and file explorer controls, the front one being forward, and the rear being back. They are labeled correctly in the software, but the functions themselves are backwards. The rear button is forward, and the front is back, even though it says otherwise. Change them so that they appear to be backwards, and it will be correct.There are some complaints about how the software handles lighting. For some of the lighting modes, instead of choosing a mode and then setting a color to go with it, which is the way all other software I've used before works, you actually have to set the color under DPI profile, which is a different part of the software. A bit confusing at first because it's so abnormal, but easy enough once you see how it works. Some other lighting profiles offer no color selections at all.Now to the reasons why I ultimately returned the mouse. These things are very much personal preference, they're just things that are negatives to me when it comes to a mouse.One seems to be the only manufacturing/design flaw of the mouse, the scroll wheel. It's functional, but it's not all that smooth, there are a couple spots in it that feel like they're borderline about to start squeaking.The second thing also involves the scroll wheel, it doesn't provide a lot of feedback when scrolling. This is entirely personal preference. Some mice have a smoother wheel, some have more distinct bumps during the roll. This one is very much on the smoother side. You can feel the bumps, but they're not prominent. I'm used to the aggressive bumps in the scroll wheel of my Roccat Kone XP, so the light feedback of this wheel was a no go for me.Third, and this is the big reason why I'm not keeping the mouse, is it has no lift off control. I'm a frequent mouse lifter, and when a mouse has poor, or no lift off control, it can make for an unpleasant experience, especially when gaming. What this does is every time you lift the mouse, it still reads the surface for some distance, a few to several millimeters, making the cursor move in unintended ways. Liftoff control has been fairly standard on mice for a long while now, either in the software where the user can adjust it, or simply built in to the mouse. Not having any control makes for a pretty annoying user experience.One last thing, and this is getting very nitpicky, the color isn't quite what the product images look like. In the product images the blue accent on the mouse look blue. A pastel blue, but blue. The color description of the mouse is called "blueberry" after all. In reality it's more pastel purple. Even comparing the sales page photos to photos I took, and looking at them on the same monitor, there is a noticeable difference.It's not a bad mouse, it's actually quite a good mouse for the price. My complaints are largely personal preference, this is why I have not given the product a bad overall rating. I wish those things didn't annoy me as much as they do, because the mouse goes so well with my theme.