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No.
Do not buy steelseries. Ever.
I bought one of their controllers, once. I really liked it, but it broke. When I RMAd it, they didn't have replacements in stock. I said fine, I'll wait.
They said no. Here's a 60 euro certificate to buy something else you don't want. Also it expires in 30 days, just to make sure you can't wait for something you actually want to buy, like the controller, to be in stock.
All complaints ignored.
They effectively stole my controller with zero compensation. Their warranty policies are literally just "fuck you, eat shit". Everything else I've ever used from them has only barely outlasted the warranty.
I recommend Epos headsets. My GSP 370 have now lasted four times longer than the Steelseries Arctis I had before. The battery is finally dying, but you can literally undo just 3 screws and replace it.
When new, the battery lasts 100 hours per charge, and when you finally do get the low battery warning, you don't need the swappable battery bullshit because "low battery" still means they'll last two more days. Which means you can just ignore the infrequent low battery sound until you're done gaming, and then plug them in.
They function flawlessly on linux, and have excellent audio quality for both input and output. Since, you know, they're by Sennheiser, not a "gaming" peripheral company.
I went googling for the Epos GSP headsets after this comment, only to learn they are discontinued. What a bummer, they seem nice.