Madcatz controllers

Probably not your issue, but make sure the stick is in a completely neutral position when plugging in or turning on the PC. Otherwise this can happen.

Your right hands might be stronger than left?

Never owned a madcatz controller but it was the only brand i was looking at when i was about to buy a joystick.

Madcatz are infamously terrible. Their Rock Band stuff was good but that was an exception to the rule :p First party are almost always great quality. Once in a great while though, a third party controller or headset will come out that'll be nice.

It may be different in your region, but in my experience their tech support sucks a thousand dog-dongs.

I had a peripheral which failed on me after about 7 months of use. Having spent almost 2 months being batted backwards and forwards between their regional support teams, I ended up forced to go back to the retailer, and refused to physically leave the premises until the manager sorted me out with a refund in order to get the issue resolved (which he eventually, and very unenthusiastically did).

Their US tech support insisted that NZ was in Europe, and should be dealt with by their European support team. European support insisted the opposite was true. it goes without saying that at the time there was no Oceania tech support. They provided unhelpful one-sentence answers referring me to their counterparts, despite my furnishing them with the entire story in a number of lengthy tickets.

While I don't own enough products to comment authoritatively on them, their tech support seems to be staffed by a troop of intellectually challenged baboons with the sort of knowledge of global geography which would have "uncontacted" tribes of pygmies living in isolation deep in the Peruvian rainforest shaking their heads in disbelief.

Madcatz are currently industry leaders in controller peripherals, it's not the 90's anymore. They produce some of the best budget priced arcade sticks available, and sponsor the big FG tournaments.

I honestly think the only thing MadCatz made well was the memory cards for PS2. Every controller I bought of theirs would have some major problem within 3 months. Only good thing about that is that I could return it and get another. Since then, I only buy Sony or Microsoft branded controllers, even for my PC.

I try to stay away from third party console controllers. Most are pretty bad.

There's no good Madcatz.

There's only good Badratz.