I've never bought expensive mice. That was no problem until 4 years ago or so, when my old, basic and simple Logitech mouse broke down after 10+ years (I simply couldn't fix the inner cables once more ^^).

Then I got a series of new ones. Most of them didn't last longer than one year, some only months. Maybe I do something terrible to them, I don't know. But the problem is they all started to double-click on their own when they should only single-click and that they stopped dragging on their own when they shouldn't. Which is quite annoying.
Now the latest iteration is also starting to show the symptoms.
I've never encountered this problem before, so I've got the impression quality has worsened considerably.

My question: What mice do you have? Did you encounter these problems? Can you recommend something?

I've been using a razer deathadder 2013 for a bit over a year. No issues, except that the shape is a little bit larger than I'd like and I had to calibrate it to reduce the LOD. They're quite expensive though and if you do find a cheap one, it's probably fake.

Used a cheap mouse before that, but couldn't stand the low malfunction speed.

Thats a common problem in electronics. They produce the devices so that they are broken when the guarantee is over and you have to buy another one. In many cases they do it with cheap electrolytic capacitors as they get dry soon, especially with heat. I believe the problem with the doubleclick could be caused by this. Try changing the capacitors.

I've got at least eight Microsoft Intellimouse (3-button and 5-button). None of those "ergonomic" crap ones.

They go out after awhile but you can replace the buttons with nothing more than a soldering iron.

I used to prefer the 5-button ones but those back/forward buttons on the side were so darn sensitive you'd mess up your web surfing more often then not. I should just mod the 5's with an on/off switch to disable them unless I'm playing a game.

Anyhow, if you do like those mice, these guys have a whole thread dedicated to modern replacements:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MouseReview/comments/2q1ke8/gaming_mouse_similar_to_microsoft_intellimouse/

Additionally, /r/MouseReview is apparently a place where people with way too much time on their hands do nothing but review... computer mice. I just found out about it while searching Google images for those pictures.

OH, other than the super-sensitive side buttons, the only other flaw is the ridiculous 90's/early 00's "bright as hell" red light that shoots out of the clear plastic on the back. If you have a desk in front of your bed, it'll burn your retinas out when you try to go to sleep. But a simple Sharpie or electrical tape can fix that.

It should be noted that most mice have pretty standard switches on the breadboard. So if yours fail, it could be nothing more than a defect (and not the whole mouse line) and you can replace them a dime a dozen. As you know, the other common failure point is the wiring in the front coming apart from the flexing movement. That's not as easy to fix, but it's still fixable if you have patience.

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Thank you so far. I will check out the models you mentioned later.

Yeah, I thought so, too. Problem is, while you saw an obvious screw at the bottom of my old mouse, I'm not even sure how to open my current one - except from forcefully tearing apart all that plastic.

Look under one of the rubber pads or stickers, you're likely to find screws there.

I've probably had 3 mice over the past decade. I started out with a nicer Logitech, but eventually that one started doing the double click on me. So I took over using a spare Rosewill one that I got for $1 on Newegg. That finally died on me just the other day, so I replaced it with a wireless Logitech one which, after a couple of hours of use last night, has worked great so far.

The Logitech G502 is the mouse that I most recently tried, and that was the experience that I had with it. My hand was immediately cramped from using it and despite trying it out for about a week that continued to be my experience with it.

I'd say that the way a mouse fits your hand is very dependent on the mouse. I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all mouse that fits well. Most mice are just designed to be operated from a few control points with your hand just hanging off of it, whereas gaming mice have more control edges and don't really afford you that luxury, but if it fits then it fits great.

I don't see what's so "overly-complex" about the G9. The main feature lacking in modern mice is the sum of the weights. You can't get a heavily weighted gaming mouse these days, as far as I could find. Of course, the shape of the G9 happens to fit my relatively small hands quite well too.

Thank you. So basically, you all seem to use high(er)-quality gaming mice. Ok, I'll look into these in the hope for some quality, although I don't really need a gaming mouse.

A Microsoft mouse I had some months ago didn't like my desk very much, so I didn't even come to the point of destroying the buttons. By using them normally.

With the design of my mouse, the software allow me to customize what about to 10 buttons though I use only 6. Three are the left middle and right, then two for scrolling left and right (I hit that so often when I first got that I actually disabled those two)

The next two, that I haven't found a reason to remap yet, were to turn the DPI up and down.

Then by the thumb, three buttons that I mapped as Ctrl+Tab, F5, and Ctrl+W

Yet you don't know what model it is?

Worn off the underside? Are the feet gone?

That's a Logitech Performance Mouse MX.

@LennyLen That is the one.
I guess it is still valuable the price has not changed over the years.
I use this for DOTA 2 gaming very fast pace game that requires lots of precise and fast pace chained mouse movements and clicks.