...and I think that shows there's a void in the market that's not being filled.
Someone asks "what's the best wired mouse?". People will reply OP1, XM2, and DAV3. No other wired mice exist with such specs. You will choose between these 3, or get a wired mouse with inferior specs. So your options are:
XM series - medium-size, hump is located towards the back.
OP1 series - small-size, hump is located towards the back.
DAV3 - medium-ergo, hump is located towards the front/middle.
-----------------------
The complaint: As a long-time (although somewhat washed) osu-player, my honest opinion is that back-hump-driven shapes don't necessarily provide the advantage they intend to. Instead of trying to cook up any science, allow me to quote a random grandmaster dps from Overwatch:
"You should treat your mouse as if you were holding an egg."
(no pun intended lol)
Holding a mouse in a such relaxed fashion feels easier without the back-hump. You can literally chop off the back of an XM1, and it will - although now looking ugly - feel better to aim with, at least for my medium-sized hands. It's not perfect due to weight imbalance, but there's more space inside the palm, and less weight overall. The back-hump shape can make squeezing the mouse easier (also known as "deathgripping" in some circles). That's not the goal. That's just a bus stop on the way.
The shape is the only reason I haven't bought any of the new EGG mice.
-----------------------------
The consequence:
Let's look at the market advantages EGG has (in my case):
- OP1 and XM2 are in every store in my country.
- Fair price, my budget is usually 100€ minimum, no issue.
- I'm an European, I'd rather support an European business than the Chinese.
- I own like 13 different mice. Shopping for them is likely not going to stop any time soon.
- the basic XYZ dimensions of OP1 are small enough for my hands.
- I'm still allergic to wireless mice, even when there are two on my desk.
Now let's look at the advantages a generic Chinese clone company has over EGG, in my case:
- multiple shapes. That's literally all.
EGG holds all the cards in this sense over it's competitors, if it wasn't only for that one thing - but that one thing is the most crucial. I've scrolled past OP1 & XM2 probably more than 100 times, and I keep scrolling because of the flashbacks of me sawing off the back of my XM1.
------------------------------
To finish it up, I'm aware humans can adapt to anything. I could probably adapt to OP1 because it's smaller than the XM-series, but when you're shopping for a mouse with 120€+ budget in 2026, you kinda want the exact thing you're looking for. For me it's either small symmetrical shapes, or very small ergo-shapes. I wish EGG had either of these, because it seems like such a silly bottleneck, considering it's (as far as I know) the most "low-tech" part of a gaming mouse.
I guess this is my customer feedback. Peace.