ZBoard GW:F keyset

Looks like us ZBoard owners (though I'm still waiting for mine to arrive) will get a new keyset pretty soon.

http://www.webhallen.com/prod.php?id=57398 (note: swedish page, but image and description are in english)

edit: "Boka" is swedish for pre-order so I guess it's not released yet. Specially since I can't find it at the official page either.

Care to elaborate what makes a ZBoard so special compared to normal keyboards?

Read about it here:
http://www.zboard.com/

Yay! it's about time!

Can someone who already has a zboard explain a couple of things to me?

1) So you buy this thing, it snaps on your keyboard, install the software, and you're good to go? Or you need to buy something else?

2)In your experience, how much did this help with your gaming? Rate it in usefulness 1 to 10 please.


If this thing is useful, I rather buy this and Factions - NOT CE. For the price of CE, I can have the Zboard and Factions.

Personally, I prefer this

http://www.overclockercafe.com/Revie...ing/index.html

which you can get from newegg for $35 US, IMO, all the zboard is is a keyboard with fancy graphics and a few buttons that are shaped slightly differently.

The zboard insert works out to roughly $28 US (though newegg sells the inserts from around $20) + the cost of the zboard ($43 US at newegg). Sure the zboard is a full keyboard but really is it particularly comfortable to use for anything except gaming, not to mention that each game you want to use it 'properly' for requires that you spend more money.

Oooh, that's lovely! I hadn't seen that before. Thanks for the link!

I have a zboard I will definately pick one up. I had one for wow, I traded it for the LOTR games. I cant wait to use one for the game I play the most.

I didn't know there was a z-board for GW. I had looked some months ago, but didn't find it on the site.

Feminist, that's because it's new

Dargon, thanks for the link. The WolfKing Warrior looks a lot better for my uses, since I tend to play more than one game and I do so on my laptop

its probably because if u go through the forums, teh gw posts have hte most compared to ANY other game there

There's even an ad for it in the most recent PCGamer!

Correct.

Here is the link on zboards page, they have yet to put up a link on their main site

http://www.zboard.com/experience/guildwars/

So...does this actually help your game or is it just something new and spiffy to use? Not that there's anything wrong with new gadgets.

I have many ZBoards, and I have them all to be pretty useful.

The layout is nice for the keysets that I have; but, buying keysets for each game gets kinda lame and expensive.

I will probably buy this keyset when it comes out, but thats cuz I am a freak for Zboard keysets.

honestly i think its a big waste of money.

for 60 bucks, the better choice is getting the high end keyboard from logi or ms

the actual keyset is usually 20 bucks online and 15 in stores. The base set is around 40 bucks, if you already own a zboard base like me, then the cost will be around 15 bucks. I will purchase it because it has GW on it

*Looks at my standard Dell keyboard*

*sigh*

Here for people in the UK they can get the Keys here as well.

http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstore/productpage.asp?productcode=RM02759&title=zboard_k %20eyset_-_guild_wars_factions_-_limited_edition!

Released: 28 April 2006