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The backlighted keys are bright enough to be easy to see but not so bright as to be bothersome. This keyboard isn't perfect, but it is leaps and bounds better than the reviewers give it credit for. It is a somewhat squishy feel to the type which lowers the amount of noise. The key blocking others have complained of have not affected me. My only real complaint would be since its shiny it is incredibly hard to keep clean, although they do provide a cleaning cloth with the packaging.
I bought my wife one for Christmas and figured I just had a bad one that I would return. I can easily reach the 1-5 keys while using AWSD not to mention being able to key bind shift+cntrl and be able to pop a command quickly when the heat is on. I play games alot and the feel of the Lycosa is awesome. Unless Razor comes up with a fix for this, her's will definitely be heading back to the store.If you fall in love with the feel of this keyboard, just can't do with anything else, and can live with doing a quick unplug buy it. I had to just move with the mouse until the fight is over. She messed up on trying to plug her's back in and the computer rebooted so everyone had to wait around.
We were on the first TOC boss and media player pops up. Light up keys are a must because I enjoy playing in a dark or dimly lit room and the keyboard looks awesome.The first night I plugged in for a World of Warcraft raid is when the problems started. Next thing I know, I'm standing in fire, trying to move, and my computer wants me to listen to music instead. I close the media player, move my character, then media player comes up again. I bought this keyboard after someone dumped my water glass on my perfectly functioning G15. A couple days later I'm in a raid and my W key just quits. I'm frantically punching the key and spanking the keyboard in case it is choking on a crumb or something to no avail.
I then unplugged the keyboard, plugged it back in and everything was fine. This has happened on other occasions too and I have gotten quite good at doing this. When I got back in I was dead and the fight was almost done. Still, my hands do not feel cramped and I can type out a message much quicker with the short throw keys. I didn't install the drivers since she won't ever use macros or the media player buttons.
This continues to repeat itself so I go for the quick reboot. I disabled the media player function by pointing it to another player which is not installed. She was doing a 5 man and her character suddenly starts running in circles. If you can't quickly access the two USB plugs or you are happy with the feel of another keyboard then don't take a chance on this one.
I bought this keyboard because I spilled beer on my merc stealth and didn't feel like paying another $100 for a replacement. The mirror finish gets really dirty, but it comes with a nice cleaning swatch. You'd be surprised how hard it is to find a normal, black keyboard with blue LED's. A lot of reviews said that there were problems with the keyboard not working, but mine works great. The lights are brighter on this one than the regular Lycosa. Sometimes it takes a little extra pressure to get the a to work, and you need to plug in another usb cable into your pc in order to use the usb port on the keyboard, but other than that I am really satisfied.
Put these two problems together and the keyboard caused me quite a bit of aggravation until the illumination soft switch stopped working entirely (leaving me with a set of black-on-black keys). What was worse was when the illumination "switch" stopped working reliably.
It really is a cool keyboard that served me well in late night MMO gaming sessions. I bought this keyboard about a year ago, and was extremely pleased with its look and function.
The keyboard would occasionally switch illumination modes randomly, leaving me in the dark (or with just the W-A-S-D keys lit). The illumination was done well, and the keys were very responsive.
After about nine months, though, I started running into trouble. This switch is not a mechanical switch, you just touch the logo on the upper right corner and it "senses" your touch.
In the end, I recently replaced it with a Logitech Illuminated Keyboard, which is working great so far.
The blue backlight is perfectly lit to see the key's lettering and symbols. First box opening and i could see the reflection of my face in it, very awesome although finger prints are a problem. But, i clean my keyboard once in a while. This keyboard is very stealthy and the keys are very responsive. This keyboard is a keeper.
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