Reading these threads makes me seriously feel like Realforce are paying people to bash this thing.
Never before have I seen an innovative product bashed so hard even though it has a competitive price.
Yeah, yeah the other Topre boards have dyesubs. Who. Gives. A. ****. It's like $20 dollars more than the lasered FC660 for crying out loud and people had no problem buying those.
I think it is because people were hoping for type heaven cost, not leopold fc660c cost. And if I remember correctly, all the CM employees kept throwing around $150-180 as a estimated cost of the board.
See I don't ever recall them posting about price. Some people said that they mentioned those prices at one of the expos but I took that with a grain of salt because people on the Internet are usually full of ****.
Instead everyone else took it as gospel. Go figure.
Well yea that's the issue dude.
Here's an example :
Tesla's new car is currently leaking, so called Model E or Model III (name not final), and what does the people are expecting? A deluxe electric car at a low price. Low price is the whole deal here, it should not compete against higher end cars. If Tesla delivers, but the price range is not what the potential customers had in mind, well, it won't sell. Two reasons here:
- It's too expensive for the target audience.
- At the same price, other options are available as well.
Pretty much the same scenario here (I know it's not 100% the same but you get the point), CM's target audience is not those who already affords 660c, realforce or HHKB, but those who goes low-end with Type Heaven (not intended to diss Type Heaven don't get me wrong here).
Just for a little more you get a 660c and who cares changing the caps of that board, just look at them already, thick leopold PBT is by far the best arround already. At this point when you get a 200$+ board you understand the very basic concept of "function over aesthetics" and most probably you won't even care what your board looks like you just want the 200$+ feel right?
