ASUS ROG Harpe Ace Extreme

[pzogel]

Featuring a carbon fiber shell, the ambidextrous ROG Harpe Ace Extreme weighs only 47 g, and is capable of true 8000 Hz polling in both wired and wireless operation. Equipped with the latest AimPoint Pro sensor and ROG optical switches for the main buttons, the Harpe Ace Extreme supports both 2.4 GHz wireless and Bluetooth.

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[Onasi]

Lol. Lmao even. I caught some reviews of this thing previously here and there and I still can’t fully comprehend the reason for its existence. The Harpe Ace is already by itself kind of an unremarkable mouse - it’s the same ambi inoffensive “one for all” slop that we have been getting for ages now, just like GPX and Viper V3 and all their clones and imitators. Doubling down on it with a stupid Special Edition that isn’t really any better is… well, one of the moves of all time. Still less scummy than what Razer pulled with the Viper Mini by never releasing a proper wireless version (fuck off with the Cobra) and just fleecing people with the SE. At least here, if you really like the Harpe Ace (for some reason), you can just ignore the existence of the Extreme and get the normal version.

 

[Animalpak]

If it had been made of real carbon as a Motorsport enthusiast I would have immediately purchased it. But as always it's a carbon wrap like thingy.

 

[Dahita]

Well, at least some kids will think twice before throwing it against the wall while raging on CS2 Ok fine I was talking for myself.

 

[TheDeeGee]

$250... no mouse wheel which can click left and right, and it's made for hands the size of a infant.

 

[_roman_]

How many gaming mice do i get for which costs EUR 8,96 each? EAch comes with two years warranty. I think that is longer which I'll ever use a computer.
sold price with free shipping vs asking price of 59.99€
I do not see differences to the premium racer mice I used ~15 years ago. As of now its AGon AOC mouse - before Sharkoon - I also use a E-blue instead sometimes. Some logitech mice are worse than trash in past few months - especially the premium work mouse segment for 60€, 12€, 30€

-- the palm size is a characteristic of a mouse. It depends on the user and the use case scenario. I think it was palm vs claw grip 20 years ago.

This is a battery mouse. But 90% it looks like the same build quality as any cheap 8.96- 20€ mouse I used in past 20 years. Where is the money? In marketing?

Some mice failed me mechanically in the past of this design.

 

[cellar door]

I'm giving this mouse my "expensive for no reason" award.

Next year Asus Rog Harpe ACE Extreme Astral - $350..

 

[cerulliber]

stil looking at this 25% of rtx 5080 msrp and still trying to figure out it's a mouse

 

[freeagent]

How many gaming mice do i get for which costs EUR 8,96 each? EAch comes with two years warranty. I think that is longer which I'll ever use a computer.
sold price with free shipping vs asking price of 59.99€
I do not see differences to the premium racer mice I used ~15 years ago. As of now its AGon AOC mouse - before Sharkoon - I also use a E-blue instead sometimes. Some logitech mice are worse than trash in past few months - especially the premium work mouse segment for 60€, 12€, 30€

-- the palm size is a characteristic of a mouse. It depends on the user and the use case scenario. I think it was palm vs claw grip 20 years ago.

This is a battery mouse. But 90% it looks like the same build quality as any cheap 8.96- 20€ mouse I used in past 20 years. Where is the money? In marketing?

Some mice failed me mechanically in the past of this design.

This looks like the inside of one of my toy battery cars from when I was a kid in the 80s lol. Those two ginormous posts remind my of my Bigfoot truck

Don't mind me

 

[Cheeseball]

Not worth the $250. I'd probably use this at $100 just for the properly calibrated AimPoint Pro sensor, but having to deal with Armoury Crate non-SE? Nah.

 

[Chrispy_]

There's really no reason for a mouse to cost more than $100. That'll buy you the very best sensor on earth and leave plenty of budget for high-quality switches and case.

Over $100 you are basically paying brand tax. There's no fancy R&D because wireless mice are a solved problem. There's no special USP, and the service/support is ASUS which has been ousted as a rip-off scandal of messing people around and refusing to honor warraties without superflous (and illegal, in many places) surcharges. This at $249 is just markup for the loyalists and those who want to flaunt wealth. Armory Crate is a negative point for me. It's usable, I guess, but I put it alongside Razer Synapse as feature-creep bloatware that grossly oversteps boundaries for its primary purpose.

Credit to Asus, Armoury Crate Gear appears to be decent, and what a mouse driver should be with all of the irrelevant crap stripped out.

 

[Onasi]

There's really no reason for a mouse to cost more than $100. That'll buy you the very best sensor on earth and leave plenty of budget for high-quality switches and case.

I mean, I’ll play devils advocate (somewhat) and say that I sort of understand when something like the Zaunkoenig costs a ton because of the fact it’s a specialty item made by, like, three dudes in a garage by hand from stupidly expensive materials and distributed by themselves without any retail partners. I don’t want to purchase one myself necessarily, but I do understand. Kind of. But nothing from a major manufacturer with actual OEM contracts that’s made in a modern mass production factory should be this pricey, yeah.

 

[Chrispy_]

I mean, I’ll play devils advocate (somewhat) and say that I sort of understand when something like the Zaunkoenig costs a ton because of the fact it’s a specialty item made by, like, three dudes in a garage by hand from stupidly expensive materials and distributed by themselves without any retail partners. I don’t want to purchase one myself necessarily, but I do understand. Kind of. But nothing from a major manufacturer with actual OEM contracts that’s made in a modern mass production factory should be this pricey, yeah.

Aye, that's a handcrafted extremely low-volume part where the BOM is likely miniscule and the costs are mostly labour, but the tiny volumes made also means that each unit has to bear a greater percentage of the R&D costs that it took to bring to market. Same argument can be made for buying a handcrafted dining table for a few thousand dollars because it's taken one person three weeks of labour to make. It might not be much higher quality than an oak IKEA for a few hundred bucks, but you're paying for the original design and handcrafted nature.

For something mass-produced as a derivative of another mass-produced model and spat out by a factory in China by the tens of thousands, it's not really relevant