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Yes it's true lady and gentlemen, MadCatz is no more. The company that cornered the niche market of making controllers for fighting game weirdos and distant relatives that didn't want to spend more than $20 on your christmas presents is dead. It did not go quietly into that good night however, scratching and screaming with all its might much like it's namesake before being stuffed into a sack and thrown into a river, bringing us the sort of products that can only be thought of by a team of people that could not give less of a gently caress. Such as: A Batarang! If playing Clash of Clans or whatever garbage piece of poo poo game you like wasn't painful enough, you could cut yourself with this $200 symbol of man's hubris!  A tiny guitar! how adorable  Condoms! Buying MadCatz products basically guarantees you are never going to impregnate someone, so I'm not sure who this was meant for.  A wall scroll of legendary baseball hero Mark McGuire!  A gun! A real life, honest to god gun. Worked about as well as anything else madcatz made  Wall-E! From the hit movie Chappie! Nah, just kidding, it's the Batarang again, got ya Let's take this time to talk about the little company that couldn't. I actually own one of their fightsticks, it's good
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Apr 4, 2017 01:36
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Owned a bunch of their poo poo throughput the years. I'm surprised they went under, I thought they had the super cheap controller market locked down. I guess that's me being out of touch though.
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Apr 4, 2017 01:41
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It's Nerf, or nothing.
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Apr 4, 2017 01:49
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The best part about this is MadCatz bought Saitek and ran their poo poo into the ground but now Logitech owns Saitek so perhaps they can return to the glory that is not making loving garbage. Mad Catz was poo poo forever.
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Apr 4, 2017 01:49
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Their community manager spent most of his time giving away free stuff to foxy Twitch vixens and cosplayers who could make eye contact with him for longer than 5 seconds, which surprisingly didn't save the company from bankruptcy.
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Apr 4, 2017 01:53
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if id known that i would have scored some free swag
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Apr 4, 2017 01:53
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as a small child i owned a madcatz playstation 1 control and memory card rest in pieces
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Apr 4, 2017 01:55
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KakerMix posted:Mad Catz was poo poo forever. Agreed. 100%. I hear their fightsticks were p. good, but I would never buy one due to decades of bullshit products.
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Apr 4, 2017 01:56
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the TE2 was the only good thing they ever did and it's because they didn't make the internal parts
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Apr 4, 2017 01:59
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I had a Madcatz PS1 controller where the rubber on the analog stick fell off while playing the boxing mini-game in Ape Escape. They failed me, and I'm glad their company is dead.
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Apr 4, 2017 02:36
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The only mad catz product I owned was an N64 controller with a turbo button that liked to turn on its own, confusing the hell out of me.
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Apr 4, 2017 03:10
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My friend had a mad catz steering wheel for the original need for speed and the pedals never worked.
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Apr 4, 2017 03:26
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Never in all my youth would I have thought madcatz would die before pelican in the lovely 3rd party accessories war.
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Apr 4, 2017 03:55
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Didn't they make the Rock Band gear? That stuff was pretty solid.
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Apr 4, 2017 04:10
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Croccers posted:Didn't they make the Rock Band gear? That stuff was pretty solid. They went bankrupt because they invested all their money into Rock Band 4 peripherals, which flopped horribly.
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Apr 4, 2017 04:14
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Croccers posted:Didn't they make the Rock Band gear? That stuff was pretty solid. That is one of the reasons they went under. They went all in on the latest version of it, and it was a flop.
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Apr 4, 2017 04:16
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CharlestonJew posted:They went bankrupt because they invested all their money into Rock Band 4 peripherals, which flopped horribly. I never followed with the game because I couldn't transfer my poo poo from 360 to PS4. I imagine that stopped a heap of sales.
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Apr 4, 2017 04:18
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I had a madcatz GameCube controller that always drifted left like a lovely shopping cart
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Apr 4, 2017 04:23
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Holy poo poo lol they kept going in on the rock band stuff..After the first? Lmao
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Apr 4, 2017 04:24
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God drat I got burned with some lovely mad catz controller for the xbox and never bought that crap again. getting a mad catz controller at a friends place was a gaurantee last place finish. rip in piss
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Apr 4, 2017 04:25
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NoEyedSquareGuy posted:I had a Madcatz PS1 controller where the rubber on the analog stick fell off while playing the boxing mini-game in Ape Escape. They failed me, and I'm glad their company is dead. Revenge is truly yours.
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Apr 4, 2017 04:46
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CharlestonJew posted:They went bankrupt because they invested all their money into Rock Band 4 peripherals, which flopped horribly. Is this true? Because if so...
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Apr 4, 2017 04:50
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gently caress SNEEP posted:God drat I got burned with some lovely mad catz controller for the xbox and never bought that crap again. getting a mad catz controller at a friends place was a gaurantee last place finish. rip in piss The Mad Catz Xbox controller at release date was a lot better than the Duke.
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Apr 4, 2017 05:12
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Saucer Crab posted:The Mad Catz Xbox controller at release date was a lot better than the Duke. gently caress that, the Duke was an unsung hero. Now everyone makes a controller so tiny I feel like I could break it in half if I wanted to.
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Apr 4, 2017 05:14
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Jose Oquendo posted:Is this true? Because if so... Yes, after the music game trend was long dead and buried harmonix exhumed it's corpse to put on display one last time. Apparently the game sold decently but madcatz put pretty much everything they had into it so yeah, rip.
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Apr 4, 2017 05:15
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CharlestonJew posted:
Holy poo poo holy poo poo I never saw this loving thing How does a company release this and not INSTANTLY go out of business, all the profit charts lighting on fire
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Apr 4, 2017 05:33
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that thing seems like a really good way to get your finger pinched between two pieces of cheap plastic
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Apr 4, 2017 05:45
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It's the type of controller I would have made my little brother use in the 90s. Like this thing 
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Apr 4, 2017 05:48
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slev posted:It's the type of controller I would have made my little brother use in the 90s. hahaha and I thought the base N64 controller couldn't get any worse. Lets add a dildo!
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Apr 4, 2017 06:09
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I never understood why they didn't rebrand when they started making "good" products like those fight sticks. Their name was like poison on the market, only bringing up bad memories of their memory cards deleting your data or their controllers breaking constantly. They should have just sold their quality products with a different name since no matter how hard you try to tell people, their reputation was one that wasn't going to go way no matter how hard they tried.
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Apr 4, 2017 06:10
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Apr 4, 2017 06:15
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When I was growing up, giving someone the Mad Catz controller was probably the best way of passive-aggressively letting someone know you're pissed at them.
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Apr 4, 2017 06:18
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holy poo poo
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Apr 4, 2017 06:18
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Apr 4, 2017 06:20
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The guy in the comments just wants to help
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Apr 4, 2017 06:28
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My $20 Logitech controller has lasted longer than any $50 Microsoft 360 controller. I seriously went through about 1 of those per year. The analog sticks plum gave out.
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Apr 4, 2017 21:39
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RIP MadCatz. Your controllers were always the ones none of my friends wanted to play with.
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Apr 4, 2017 21:43
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Those bulky N64 controllers always had Z buttons that would break and become useless, gently caress you MadCatz
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Apr 4, 2017 21:47
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They made a lot of Players 2s that might not otherwise have been in the money to hold an additional controller period. Bad controllers though so I'll line up to spit on this grave.
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Apr 4, 2017 21:51
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I only owned 1 MadCatz product, and it was their 3rd party GCN controller. Thing was hefty, uncomfortable, and the buttons were spread just a few mm more away from each other than the regular Nintendo one - invisible to the eye, but noticeable enough when playing that it was annoying. But it had a macro button, so that was cool, even if I never figured out how to use the dang thing. Still, $10 cheaper than a 1st party controller!
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