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The Good

A Gamer's Wet Dream
Mouse technology has reached a peak with the Warmouse Meta.... Time will tell if the world is ready for an 18 button mouse. One thing is for sure though, the next time I head out to do online battle, I wont go without the Warmouse Meta.
- Michael Hines, Trendhunter, January 13, 2010

OpenOfficeMouse Is An 18 Button Freak, But I Want It
18 programmable buttons. E-I-G-H-T-E-E-N! Forget the 512k of flash memory, analog Xbox 360-style joystick, basic scroll wheel and whatever-else-is-in-there. 18 buttons! Yes, I'm a button lover. Yes, I just had an orgasm. And yes, I will waste $75 on this.
- Rosa Golijan, Gizmodo, November 6, 2009

Is This the Most Insane Mouse Ever?
We're torn between being both entranced and horrified all at once looking at this mouse.... There's a temptation to say hell with simplicity and immerse ourselves in the complexity and options heaven of such a device.
- Gregory Han, Unplggd, November 9, 2009

OpenOfficeMouse reborn as WarMouse Meta
What we have here is a sort of Freddie Prinze Jr. movie dork makeover event, except applied to an 18-button mouse.... Anyway, that crazy-ass mouse from a few months ago has been redesigned somewhat to make it a little more awesome. I mean, who wants a white mouse? Scientists, maybe. So other than the recoloring, new laser sensor, and apparent retooling of the analog stick (the analog stick, people) it's pretty much the same.
- Devin Coldaway, CrunchGear, December 14, 2009

A Strategy Game Designer's Perspective
Whether I personally will routinely use all 16 buttons is extremely debatable, but having multiple rows of mappable buttons seems quite useful; and often it is the case that once I set up one group of mappings with game pads and similar (which often have 12 or more buttons), I find myself wishing I had just a little more room. Seems like the WarMouse has plenty of room to start with a small configuration and then grow it to something larger, which I like. Of course, for shortcut-intensive applications like AI War, it's easy to fill up those buttons fast, so I may find myself using more buttons than I expect faster than I expect.
- Chris Park, Lead Designer, AI War:Fleet Command

The Bad

OpenOfficeMouse Isn't Free, Isn't Pretty
Think it's only gamers that require mice with more buttons than a scientific calculator? Then you've probably not met a die hard OpenOffice user, who now finally have a mouse to call their own in the form of the OpenOfficeMouse.
- Don Melanson, Engadget, November 9, 2009

The Ugly

18-Button Open Office Mouse Makes A Keyboard Look Minimal
A mouse so complicated that you need a cheat-sheet to use it. What's more, it is butt-ugly. looking like somebody cut holes in a generic dime-store mouse and inserted the plastic leftovers of pill-bottle lids.... The saving feature, if indeed this thing can be saved, is the analog control stick, very similar to the Nintendo 64 controller's mushroom stick. Unlike the nodule on the mighty mouse or the tipping, clicking scroll wheels of any other mouse, the stick is on the side, under your thumb. This strikes us a dead handy.
- Charlie Sorrel, Wired Gadget Lab, November 9, 2009