Why is my Razer Lycosa keyboard a piece of junk?

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This is the first and last time I ever buy overpriced hardware peripheries solely aimed at gamers.

I have tried uninstalling and installing drivers several times to fix this but nothing fixes these problems, that ONLY happen randomly during gaming:

-- keyboard fails to respond, have to press the up arrow 20x just to move an inch since I can't seem to just keep my finger on the key

-- keyboard lights flicker on and off

-- sometimes a direction permanently stays on, as if I have my hand on the left directional key the entire time; I could be pressing nothing and my character in a shooter will be permanently moving left

It's not even a wireless keyboard and I spent how many $$$ on this piece of junk? If anyone has any suggestions, would be most appreciated, but I'm about to head the direction of Logitech or Microsoft.

Firstly what game are you trying to play? Are you running fraps? As an issue with some games and fraps leads to delayed keyboard inputs, exactly as u describe. It happened to me on crysis. So check what programs you have running in the background, turn them off and see how u go. As for the keyboard turning off, thats a defect for sure.

i havent experienced any of the problems you've mentioned, but i do agree it is a tad overpriced. I would have bought the logitech, but it wasnt in so i was like what the hell its all shiny why not. You do have to clean it alot though its a massive dust magnet.