My daughter liked these headphones at first. They're not very good at noise-cancelling, but they work like all in-ear headphones. They did a good job and people could hear her when she spoke. Two stars is good because a good pair of gaming headphones should last more than 3 months. She wasn't rough with them. Your last pair lasted 3 years. One day they just stopped working. We spent a little more on these because we thought they'd work better than our $10 kids' headphones with no mic but no case, and now we're back to finding their headphones that can do what they're for were developed.