Razer Game Store Closing Feb 28, Less Than Year After Launch (variety.com)
The Razer Game Store will close on February 28 at 1am PST, the company announced in a blog post. This comes less than a year after its launch last April. From a report: The shutdown is part of "the company's realignment plans," according to Razer. "It has been a privilege for us to recommend and deliver great digital game deals to you. We have been extremely fortunate to have you as part of our awesome community," the post reads. "Thank you for the support and making all this possible. We will be investing in other ways to deliver great content and introduce game promotions through Razer Gold, our virtual credits system."
Razer is one of the least respected computer peripheral manufacturers. Not only do they have a reputation for mid to lower-than-par quality of some of their products, and for requiring their Razer Synapse software to run on the Windows host to enable many functions on their keyboards and mice.
They are infamous for using ambiguous and misleading marketing, misusing terminology to mean different things than what is industry-standard, thus making their products appear better than they really are. In other words: more bullshit than substance. Sometimes right outside the edge of fraudulent territory.
The worst thing, though, might be Razer Softminer: A cryptocurrency mining app. It mines real cryptocurrency for Razer (it is unclear which), and in return the user would get credits in Razer's rewards program.
Considering that Razer caters to the gullible in the first place: often kids with gaming PCs, but who are not paying the energy bills, you could say that they are encouraging kids to steal from their parents on their behalf.
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley