The Verge: Corsair acquires mechanical keyboard specialist Drop
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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.
This is going to go down as well as the reddit api changes. Corsair has a terrible reputation.
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.
Honestly not too surprising but I don't think it will bode well for the quality of stuff posted there.
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.
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.
I miss the old massdrop. They used to be awesome and do interesting things.