Yeah I don’t see this being a well received move. Their acceptance has already been on a decline in the keyboard enthusiast circles, so now having a major consumer brand that is generally considered low tier in that market overseeing things is probably gonna make people pretty angry.
I didn't really buy from Drop, but corsair will probably erase them. Dollar for dollar, there's generally better stuff out there, unless you are looking for a certain mouse shape or something.
Same. pretty sure this will just turn into a marketing arm to sell cut-down versions of keyboards that corsair would otherwise have a hard time moving.
I've gotten mechanical keyboards from corsair, logitech (wireless), redragon, ASUS, CoolerMaster and ducky.
The only ones i'd actually recommend are redragon (cheap) and ducky (not so cheap).
I do have a soft spot for my cm storm though. it's very old and has absurdly light keypresses for a cherry mx brown. It's got a bad trace or something though, so it's just in line to have its keyswitches desoldered when I get around to it most likely.
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smoovie@pawb.social · 5 pts · 3y
Yeah I don’t see this being a well received move. Their acceptance has already been on a decline in the keyboard enthusiast circles, so now having a major consumer brand that is generally considered low tier in that market overseeing things is probably gonna make people pretty angry.
GroggyKon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
This is going to go down as well as the reddit api changes. Corsair has a terrible reputation.
Wahots@pawb.social · 4 pts · 3y
I didn't really buy from Drop, but corsair will probably erase them. Dollar for dollar, there's generally better stuff out there, unless you are looking for a certain mouse shape or something.
drdiddlybadger@pawb.social · 3 pts · 3y
Honestly not too surprising but I don't think it will bode well for the quality of stuff posted there.
Spitfire@pawb.social · 3 pts · 3y
Oof…. Don’t know how to feel about this one.
I’ve found some good keyboards and accessories from Massdrop/Drop before and they have good headphones with their HD6XX line.
But I feel that with this, that’s going to end in favor of pushing Corsair’s own products instead.
natebluehooves@pawb.social · 1 pts · 3y
Same. pretty sure this will just turn into a marketing arm to sell cut-down versions of keyboards that corsair would otherwise have a hard time moving.
I've gotten mechanical keyboards from corsair, logitech (wireless), redragon, ASUS, CoolerMaster and ducky.
The only ones i'd actually recommend are redragon (cheap) and ducky (not so cheap).
I do have a soft spot for my cm storm though. it's very old and has absurdly light keypresses for a cherry mx brown. It's got a bad trace or something though, so it's just in line to have its keyswitches desoldered when I get around to it most likely.
coldredlight@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 3y
I miss the old massdrop. They used to be awesome and do interesting things.