I have had the damnedest time with PC mice lately, and the click-happy brilliance of PopCap’s new tower defense game Plants vs. Zombies has only made things worse. About a month or so ago, my trusty Razer Copperhead gaming mouse gave up the ghost. Not sure what happened, but I was just browsing around online and the damn thing died on me.
And now my backup Logitech laser mouse has also died, and it’s all Plants vs. Zombies‘ fault!
Apparently I clicked after one too many sun orbs, as while frantically gathering the valuable resource needed for building up my floral defenses the left mouse button went kaput. I didn’t realize what happened at first, but after cursing up a storm for a few minutes wondering why I couldn’t click on anything I eventually figured it out.
Now I’m down to my third mouse — a crummy Dell ball mouse (I haven’t used one of these in years, man they suck!) that came with the last PC I bought — until I can pick up a new one, preferably another Copperhead as I really loved that mouse.
Plants vs. Zombies is a wonderfully fun and addictive game, but be warned, it requires A LOT of clicking and may kill your mouse!
Wow … I still have all five Intellimouse Explorer Optical mice I bought several years ago in a pack …
Ball mice – had one of those at first at the place I did a three-month assignment at before coming to Corning, and it was awful … brought in my own!
Good luck – and yeah, PvZ is quite clicky …
Yeah, it’s really weird. I’ve never had a mouse die out on me ever before, and now within the course of a month I’ve lost two. Two that were fairly high-quality as well. So maybe with mice you don’t always get what you pay for…