Worst joystick you ever had?

[FLOOB]

What was the worst joystick you ever had? For me it was a saitek x36.

[puller]

Blasphemy!!!! 

I loved my X36...used it until about a month ago....if I had the money I would get another one off ebay...

[FLOOB]

Maybe I got unlucky but the one I had was coarse, didn't lend its self to precision adjustments. Spikey X and Y and needed calibrating like every other day. It felt like a toilet plunger. And the switches on the throttle (I stopped using the stick after a couple weeks) began failing within a year.

[waystin2]

The one I broke.

[FLOOB]

The one I broke.

You only had one break?

[BuckShot]

Saitek Cyborg X = junk

They changed the name and color but still sell it.

[waystin2]

You only had one break?

Recently.  Up to my fourth X42 in 9 years.   

[Drane]

Logitech Extreme 3D Pro was the worst I ever had. Had to take it back and 2nd stick was just as bad. Giant deadband, spiking, ended up ripping the stick off the base in frustration.

[Bizman]

I haven't had a bad joystick so far. Each one of them has served well for the price. Starting from CH Mach2, Konix Speedking 2 button version, Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Thrustmaster Top Gun Afterburner II and TM T.16000M. The last two are still in use simultaneously with some modifying.

[Devil 505]

Logitech 3D pro.

I bought one in a pinch from the local Best Buy after my TM Hotas-X broke it's hat switch the day before FSO. That damn 3D pro had a terrible button layout and the stick action was extremely stiff to the point that the base would lift off the table before the stick reached max travel.

Bought Friday afternoon - returned Saturday morning.

[Mano]

my experience with Logitech ------> Disposable.

[Gman]

I've been lucky, had a long line of pretty much every HOTAS and decent stick ever made, and not had a lot of problems with any, as I tend to change/upgrade very often.  Kept CH USD hotas the longest, and never broken anything with them.

The worse I guess though would be the very first Cougar that came out from TM.  Mine had a ton of center slop, and no amount of mods, tricks, software curve changes/etc, could get rid of it - you could move the stick a good 1/3 of an inch and no response would happen.  This doesn't sound like a lot, but it's a TON, believe me, and I ended up getting rid of it and getting another one, which didn't have that problem.  Very frustrating I remember, as I had given away my CH set when the Cougar came in, and in those early days of AH, I couldn't hit anything with that first Cougar (it was a review set anyhow, and probably that was why it had problems, early, very early build).

[Brooke]

No bad joystick so far.  They have all been CH Products since the early '90's (except for a cheap Saitek or two, which while cheap in function, was expected to be so because of low price and was thus OK on performance/price).

[Scca]

No bad joystick so far.  They have all been CH Products since the early '90's (except for a cheap Saitek or two, which while cheap in function, was expected to be so because of low price and was thus OK on performance/price).

Hope it doesn't break.  CH doesn't sell parts anymore.  CH also = disposable...

[FLOOB]

No bad joystick so far.  They have all been CH Products since the early '90's (except for a cheap Saitek or two, which while cheap in function, was expected to be so because of low price and was thus OK on performance/price).

Well the thing with that statement is. The best joysick I've ever had and still use was also the cheapest.