hope this experiment, would help you figure out the kits, i want my planck kit
The Assembly kit as it is currently depicted on the first page of this thread will most likely be the version available in the upcoming group buy. It should be affordable considering all the custom legends already exist from GMK Space Cadet. I might revise if necessary once I've received pricing.
ne stats avail
Working on it!
Have some questions about the regular mods and monochrome mods - the numpad mods and navigation mods are not included in there?
PS. LOL... I introduced this GB to the community of korea, cuz i believed that it's real 
Dang, you had to play it by ear at that time kkkkkk
The sole purpose of the Regular Modifiers and Monochrome Modifiers kit is to replace the Git Modifiers of the Base Kit. They are not meant to offer wide support on their own, as such, for the Numpad, only the NumLock and Enter keys are part of that kit as those are the only two keys needing replacement in the Base Kit to convert it into a Regular/Monochrome Base Kit.
It actually upsets me a little myself
Just A LITTLE? You gave people so much hope then apologized A LITTLE because your tasteless joke disappointed them?! Do you know what drives people to suicide thoughts here in Eastern Asia? DISAPPOINTMENT!
I don't take suicide lightly, I've been down the dark road myself. Implying that the cancellation of a group buy (while making clear that this keyset is still on track to be available in a few months) leads to people taking their lives is very extreme. If you are in a dark spot, please seek help immediatly, if none is available locally, there are also options online.
Promising a 10% discount, make people spent time to choose kits, sure it is a joke, not a f**king SCAM.
I have collected exactly 0 of any currency. Please elaborate how this qualifies as a Scam.
I actually like the approach of the meme gb but what can you do?
I agree, it didn't seem too far fetched to do it this way tbh. But it would need more preparation for sure, much more.
Wasted a lot of peoples time to get data to make yourself more money and the mods went along with it. Screw you. I guess this is what we can expect now that GH is owned by Massdrop. Garbage company.
As HoffmanMyster stated himself later in this thread, Massdrop had absolutely nothing to do with this. This was solely my own idea and I seeked approval from the moderators before I went ahead with it. Massdrop staff wasn't even in the office and could have pushed them as this took place over the weekend.
exactly. so obvious it's super convincing lol
this had nothing to do with market research, until it was realized that it might be viable to check out the replies anyway. the IC has existed for months and kits have been redone a few times, that's where all of the "market research" took place
Only according to you. All of his posts are consistent with intending to collect data. Making 100 pack screenshots isn't something you do just for the heck of it.
Hiney correctly pointed out that the idea of analyzing this data could be useful only came after I launched the thread. I started working on this whole thing Saturday night, took me about a total of 16 to 20 hours until I posted it at 4AM in the night from Sunday to Monday. My sole intention to do something crazy, simple as that. Once we reached 5+ pages of responses within the first 3 hours, it dawned on me that I could actually learn more than any normal poll could have ever taught me. So I went to bed at 7AM, woke up at noon to 10+ pages which continued towards the final 17 at midnight and closed it down.
But let's assume for a moment here that collecting data was my whole intention of this. Would that be so terrible? Do you not want a good product and a good price for it when it actually launches? I haven't analyzed it yet, so let's do an example. The reason why I plan to run Git Modifiers in the Base Kit for the actual group buy is because #1 I want to do it differently than Round 1, and #2 because the ratio of Regular vs Git for SA Oblivion was 60% to 40%. That's a very high percentage for 'novelty text'. Now if the data shows that only about 20% of the people chose Git Modifiers over 80% going for the Regular Modifiers, then I would change the current Base Kit to have Regular Modifiers, thus saving a lot of people the money that they would otherwise need to spend on a Regular Modifiers Kit as it currently is proposed. Wouldn't this be a benefit to the community?
And for the "he just wants to make more money" part - if I actually wanted to make as much money as I could from this set, I'd just wire my savings to GMK, have them produce 500 Base Kits and sell them at retail price via an online store for an easy 50%+ return rate on my investment. But you don't see me doing that, because I just want to make a good keyset with a lot of options available to you, because if I went the retail route, I'd have to drop 8 or 9 of the currently proposed kits to make sure I'd not be left with leftover stock that I can't sell on its own.
now that we've seen the Navigation Arrows Text - there's no excuse not to include them 
Nooooo I forgot about that. I loved the inclusion of text arrows. I hope that happens somehow, as a separate kit at least. It fits the set better, considering Oblivion is a text editor theme.
I'm probably going to make the Base Kit arrows text, but offer icon arrows as a kit. This not only pleases fans of both sides, but also offers the ability to buy Base Kit + Monochrome Modifiers + Hagoromo Alphas + Arrow Kit to fill a Tenkeyless/Fullsize + 65% board. Because so far the only thing that made this impossible was the lack of a second set of arrows.
I think what this highlights to me the most is how much Massdrop-run GMK GBs suck for me as a European and German customer in comparison to something that would indeed be handled domestically. Joking about something EU people have actually wished for for a long time is bound to rub people the wrong way.
Oh you want to buy exactly the keys you need, for a good price and without import costs or unnecessarily hurting the environment by shipping stuff across the Atlantic and back again?
Yes, I would in fact like that.
Oh, but that's just a joke, I will of course run the GB in a for me much more comfortable fashion with higher profit margin which will result in much higher prices for unnecessary keys and unnecessary import for you guys! But I think it's very funny that you would like that.
it got lost on a lot of the newer users, but it was a joke about 7bit's "round" GBs -- run in the same fashion, notorious for extreme delays
massdrop is testing EU-zone shipping as we speak, and oblotzky, as a german himself, is very aware of the issues with massdrop and non-US users
This, I am very much aware EU is at a disatvantage when it comes to Massdrop buys. I really hope this will change with the upcoming EU warehouse. It remains to be seen if this will be available for future keysets or not. The primary reason I am running this keyset through Massdrop is that it enables me to offer much more optional kits, such as the Cadet stuff, alternate function row colors, both regular and git mods on top of monochrome, etc. Most my other projects will continue to run through vendors across NA/EU/ASIA like Calm Depths did.
Also I'm pretty sure I'd make much more money if I did all the sorting myself with no cut going towards another company compared to getting a designer rev share. Would require a lot of labor on my part, but it would pay off.
