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IKEA and ASUS Announce Furniture that Puts Gamers First

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Regardless of what everyone thinks in this thread, i love the stubble, not in your face gamer themes on these furniture. If this was designed in house by Corsair or Razer, it would be an abhorrent sight of logos, led's, and flashy, tacky designs.
 
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My entire house is practically Ikea and I couldn't be happier. The furniture is completely fine as long as you don't move apartments every year or whatnot. It just doesn't do well when it has to be moved around. You only had 2 choices for furniture in these modern times: You either have a made-in-china crap that falls apart within weeks of building it, or you have expensive real stuff that's already built, which is not only very heavy, but very expensive. Ikea stuff bridges that gap and gives you a nice in-between for price & quality. I live in Las Vegas and always drove down to IKEA in Southern Cali like once a year to load up the mini-van, now there's 1 here finally.
 
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The new gaming range will target PC gamers and include six product families: HUVUDSPELARE, UTESPELARE, MATCHSPEL, GRUPPSPEL, UPPSPEL, LÅNESPELARE

Ohhh it's Swedish. Those names look like what your keyboard would type while you're smashing it in a rage after losing an online match. I'm actually a little disappointed that's not the intended meaning.

EDIT: Ikea is a Swedish company, apparently I'm only learning this just now. The more you know.
 
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Ohhh it's Swedish. Those names look like what your keyboard would type while you're smashing it in a rage after losing an online match. I'm actually a little disappointed that's not the intended meaning.

EDIT: Ikea is a Swedish company, apparently I'm only learning this just now. The more you know.
Thank goodness it's not Welsh. :p
 
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Gotta agree with TheLostSwede. If you avoid the obviously cheap stuff, IKEA also makes good stuff at affordable prices. My desk is probably around 10 years old and it's still in pretty great shape.
Agree also!

They have some acceptable quality solid wood stuff (I know it's pine). Not everyone needs a 6 thousand dollar desk/couch/table from insert designer furniture store, especially if you have kids that trash everything they touch. Their cabinets are decent for rental properties and middle grade kitchens
 

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Thank goodness it's not Welsh. :p
That would actually be hilarious. I really hope IKEA gets a Welsh competitor one day, just to see the confusion over the product names.
 
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I'd rather not have the ROG logo on anything, as I've come to associate it with overpriced "lifestyle" stylized crap, but having said that, these furnitures actually look ok. As others have said, IKEA has come to be the in-between that covers the gap between what has come to be an unfortunate chasm between chinese p.o.s. disposable "furniture" and the real, qualitative, but expensive -sometimes prohibitively so- stuff (they used to be much better at it, too, seems to me they are much less inventive nowadays... but they still cover that market).

In other words I would not rule them out , right out of hand. Not when we have chinese 100-dollar "gaming" chairs being sold for ridiculous prices. They are, after all, the manufacturer that gave us that old reliable, the Markus chair.
 
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I love it how they think gamers only eat only trash food like pigs like noodles in a cup and sodas.. is it really important to have special places for noodle cups and sodas?? Waste of money this.. also that desk looks like Autonomous, which will also be heavily overpriced, WASTE
 
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"Gaming" to PCs is now what "synergy" is to the business world.

I guess you've just bought the cheap crap then, as I have several products from IKEA that have lasted a long time, some that even are solid wood.
And there really aren't many options here, for whatever reason. No such thing as "big box" stores here apart from Costco and they don't really sell furniture.
There's a Japanese chain called Nitori that opened a few years ago, but most of their furniture feels like children's furniture to me, as they really are made for a smaller built people. Nothing wrong with that, but it simply wouldn't work for me. The quality is also worse than IKEA for most of their products.
The local furniture shops either sell very poor quality products, or it's super expensive, or just super tacky.
Not saying I want to buy all my furniture at IKEA, but I only have so much choice if I want something "western".

I'm apathetic to IKEA furniture and their food, but most of their other stuff like food containers, cutlery and rechargeable batteries are pretty awesome for the price.
 
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If I'm slouched at a desk I'm not going to ever bother moving to put my foot on the garbage can pedal lol
 

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I love it how they think gamers only eat only trash food like pigs like noodles in a cup and sodas.. is it really important to have special places for noodle cups and sodas?? Waste of money this.. also that desk looks like Autonomous, which will also be heavily overpriced, WASTE
Ever met a true Otaku?

I'm apathetic to IKEA furniture and their food, but most of their other stuff like food containers, cutlery and rechargeable batteries are pretty awesome for the price.
Well, I don't generally eat in their restaurants, but they have the cheapest jam here, some Swedish bread (unfortunately it's been out of stock for months now) and a few ingredients that I can't find anywhere else. Sadly they have quite a poor selection in general here compared to most other countries. Oh and they stock Swedish sweets, but not salty liquorice :(
 
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you must be pretty broke bro. All the furniture I've bought from Ikea is solid wood, its affordable stuff.
Hi,
Obviously not since I build my own stuff
But I have been to a few real estate open house liquidations and founds some nice pieces too.

If someone shops at Ikea more power to them only time I went there was to pick up some yard stuff and large exterior kitchen setup for a customer it was okay.
 
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