ARGH, crappy computer mice!

Apparently, I can’t seem to find a mouse that can handle my level of abuse (read: not too much abuse — I barely play the MMO that I quit, and hardly use it to navigate on the Internet; I just use it for blowing holes in spammers on the PayPerPost forums). It’s always something with the stupid thing and moving in a given direction.

When did they stop making mice that could stand up to casual gamers?

I bought this cheap, replacement mouse (that still uses a ball) perhaps a month ago, and it’s already pretty much… dead.

It was to replace an optical mouse that got ‘darn it!’ed onto its mouse pad (one vertical inch of movement, and now the optical won’t respond; How pathetic!).

That one was to replace two other mice prior to it that were weak, and both were optical: After a while, the left mouse button began double-clicking, triple-clicking, or even quadruple-clicking anything.

The worst offenders of the batch so far have been mice made by Micro Innovations. They just don’t stand up to much of anything.
I guess I’m going to have to buy a Logitech mouse next, and find it lasts for years, and would have saved me cash in the bloody long run. :/