DXRacer Craft review: It ain’t pretty, but it sure is comfy

digitaltrends.com:

With DXRacer’s new Craft line of “custom” gaming chairs, the first obstacle you’ll have to overcome is sticker shock. It’s got a high price tag, even in the shockingly expensive world of halfway decent office furniture. If you want your lumbar supported, and you do, you generally have to put some extra cash on the table.

The good news is that you can see where the money’s gone. The Craft features a broad array of adjustable features for user comfort, including the ability to tweak its backrest for whatever degree of support you want. It’s surprisingly easy to assemble, has a durable feel, and sports a variety of available color schemes, most of which look like they’re trying to convince predators that they’re poisonous.

As a review unit, DXRacer sent over one of its original designs for the Craft, the “Spaceman,” in grey and yellow. Both it and the other five initial options look like something you’d find as a generic poster asset for DAZ Studio, or maybe the cover of a pocket sketchbook from the Michael’s art supply aisle. These are not flattering comparisons.

Other alternatives include relatively straightforward designs built around the logos for Guild Wars 2‘s End of Dragons expansion, Rainbow Six Extraction, and Far Cry 6. Alternatively, you could get a simple matte-black version of the Craft that simply features DXRacer’s own logo. (All of them do feature DXRacer’s logo everywhere they can sling it, in fact. It’s a little irritating.)

Whichever you choose, the Craft was surprisingly easy to put together. It comes with a single big cardboard sheet of step-by-step instructions, and many of the Craft’s biggest parts were already assembled in the box. I did have to fasten a few bolts, but most of them were already