I've been a fan of your ROG stuff for a while, so last year I decided to buy the Gladius mouse to try it out and see if it was good enough to replace my old mouse. Luckily for me, the design is incredible and the build quality is out of this world compared to what I've used up til now. However I noticed a small issue with the shell: There seems to be some small marks in the mold which I assume happened in your factory where they are made. The reason I think this is on your end is because of the following - I bought my first Gladius on Amazon.co.uk, returned it when I first found these small imperfections for a replacement. Sadly the replacement had the same problem but in different places on the mold. I ended up returning both Gladius I had bought and decided it was probably just a bad batch. I then bought another Gladius in january from a local store here in Stockholm, Sweden. To my surprise, it had the exact same problem! Well, I wasn't about to give up before I was absolutely sure I wasn't just having bad luck. So once again I went to the store and returned my new Gladius. I then went to the same store brand but located in a different place and bought the Gladius for the 4th time hoping it wouldn't have these small markings in the mold... but it did. So 2 Gladius from Amazon.co.uk, 2 from Webhallen, one in Stockholm and one a bit outside of it. All of them with the same problem.

The mouse isn't performing any worse because of it, but you can definitely feel these small marks on the shell and if you look closely you can also see them on there. Gladius Is pretty expensive for a mouse, so I figured you'd want to know about it.

Now I also have a few things to add as feedback after using the mouse for some time if you don't mind:

LEDs are always great and the ability to turn them on and off, pulse lighting or standard are really nice. However, there is no option to turn down the brightness. I personally only use LEDs on gaming peripherals when I can have the lights at roughly 30-50% instead of 100% as it becomes a bit distracting when it's on 100% all the time.

Click latency - I feel like the speed of which I can click with the Gladius is far slower than say my Logitech g302. I've tried tons of games and programs to measure it, but I don't really have any accurate method to prove what I'm saying is true, but in every program I use that involves testing your click speed, my Gladius gets destroyed by logitech g302, Ninox aurora and bunch of other mice. There is definitely some click latency/delay that my other mice don't have and I find it very noticable.

While adding the ability to change your mouse 1 and 2 switches without soldering is great and innovative, nobody wants to remove all mousefeet every time to try new switches. It's really impracticle for people like myself that enjoy switching back and forth. Plus even if you only package 1 additional switch-type, the mouse itself is compatible with a lot of omrom switches to my knowledge, so if I would ever want to buy those switches to try them out, I couldn't, because I wouldn't have any additional mouse feet to put back on. So I hope in the future the screws aren't under the mouse feet or whatever other solution there is which would allow us to open the shell without having to remove all the mousefeet. I do dig the fact you don't have to solder switches, but I feel like I'm trading one problem for another at the moment.

2 cables! I love that you sell the mouse with two cables. I never understood the point of braided cables personally. They cause friction on mousepads and eventually fray. They also feel less flexible. So of course I instantly changed to the rubber cable, but quickly noticed how short it was. I have my computer on the floor and there is no way I can pull the cable all the way down to the PC. Frankly even if my computer was on the desk I have doubts if I the cable could reach all the way. I can of course connect my cable to the monitor, but I hate input lag and any added latency, so this is a bit problematic. I hope if you ever sell another mouse with two cables that they're both the same length as the current braided variant you include.


That's about it for me when it comes to feedback. Thanks again for this great mouse and I can't wait for the ROG Sica you're going to release. It looks really great.

Kind Regards,
David