I got one of those crazy looking ones from gravastar, after owning one of those super expensive razer mice’s that came with a big ass acrylic show cases like you bought the queen’s crown. After that I owned one similar from Corsair and before those I owned a mad catz rat 9.
I actually really like the gravastar one, but I don’t game competitively.
Exactly why I would spend Friday nights doing what I enjoyed until I was ready to sleep somewhere on a Saturday.
This way I felt like I actually got to enjoy my weekend a little.
Must have been Gran Turismo 3, during those days I was switching from pocket money to spending my own income so it’s not sure if GT3 was still a gift and GT4 was actually my first self bought game.
I do remember i owned the platinum edition of GT3 and GT4 was bought at release.
It was definitely worth it, Up until today I still dream about owning a race sim setup to do some serious racing and developing my skill. But I never got past a used Logitech G29 mounted to a desk and a chair that kept rolling away from the pedals type of setup.
I had a fairly long term of being unemployed during Covid which ended up in me buying that G29 as I spent a lot of time playing GT sport and finally for the first time ever got all gold on the licenses, so I knew I was making some good progress from all the time spent.
I even dared to try online racing and as I got better slowly managed to hold myself among others, which made me happy.
I wouldn’t count on it, my wife has been trying to the best of her abilities and at the limit of our financial reach…it’s been 10 years so far, 20k on insta and recently picked up YouTube which was now getting close to getting paid pennies…but not anymore it seems.
You either have to get lucky or have the funds and means to keep pushing yourself into the system until you trip over success.
My wife had a single sponsor which paid her €20 per month but being sponsored by them led to her followers expecting her to behave like customer support 24/7.
She now has this co-op with a printer resin company where she gets a percentage of each sale…she made zero in the past 10 months of pushing the product.
At least she’s happy for being able to share her interest and hobby with a fuckload of other people.