类型: GB
作者: Oblotzky
发布时间: 2021-06-06 18:00:20
更新时间:
2021-08-05 09:39:13
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=113224.0
Guten Tag,
I would like to announce that in
early July of this year (so in like 4 weeks) on July 2nd,
the Group Buy for GMK Oblivion V3.1 will be launching across
several vendors around the globe. As this set does not need
its interest checked, I have decided to just make a GB
thread several weeks ahead of its launch. The kits are
pretty much final and have been submitted to GMK for
pricing. However I am leaving Colevrak open for discussion
as I assume there will be requests for extending that kit.
So use this time to propose changes and why certain keys
should be added, “Please add X” requests without an
explanation as to why that key is necessary will be ignored.
Other kits can still be adjusted as well, should any errors
be discovered.
Vendors
Asia -
monokei.co
Canada -
deskhero.ca
China -
zfrontier.com
Europe -
oblotzky.industries
Oceania -
dailyclack.com
South America -
fancycustoms.com
South Korea -
swagkeys.com
United Kingdom -
prototypist.net
United States -
novelkeys.xyz
Pricing
See individual vendor
pages.
Timeline
Group Buy: From
July 2nd 2021 to August 4th 2021
Delivery: Roughly 12
months after the group buy has ended.
Kits
Collaborations
Salvun Keycaps
NK65 Oblivion Edition
Recolored
NK Silk Yellow Switches (Linear 63.5g)
Aluminium
Plate
Injection Molded Polycarbonate Case
RAMA WORKS × GMK Oblivion M6-C
Deskmats
Hilbert Dark by
Zambumon
Git Branches, designed with biip
A third design is being worked on.
More sexy
renders by pikku-allu
Now at this point, about half of you are probably
wondering
Here’s the deal. From its inception, the Oblivion
keyset has been hamstrung by me because I added so many
options to it. Multiple modifier types (Git, Regular,
Monochrome) as well as two alpha colors (Oblivion Gray and
Hagoromo) make decisions difficult. For SA, the profile I
created this set first, this works pretty well as the
different options can be sold as their own kit without
affecting price too much. With GMK’s production pipeline,
this does however not work, the best approach remains to
have complete base kits. In GMK Oblivion V2, I offered
Hagoromo Alphas as separate addon kits. However those were
55-60$ on top of the 110-130$ base kit price, making it a
165$ to 190$ purchase for what should have been just a
110-120$ base kit.
The logical solution: make base kits
with Hagoromo alphas. But as you just saw, there are 4 base
kits in this group buy already, which is insane as it is.
Adding 4 more would be plain stupid, not even addressing the
various child kits that would need duplication as well.
Vendors will hate me for running so many different SKU’s,
customers will have difficulties deciding what to get.
Having limited capital spreads extras too thinly across all
the kits. Having to either skip Hagoromo
Colevrak/International or struggle to get both to MOQ. It’s
simply a nightmare I don’t want to deal with.
So as you
may already be guessing from the name of this group buy, I
have decided to split this round of GMK Oblivion into V3.1
and V3.2. The latter will be a 1:1 copy of the kits lined up
above, but with all the Oblivion Gray alpha keys replaced by
Hagoromo alpha keys, including Colevrak and International.
Now for the question of when that V3.2 is going to
happen, I cannot give you an exact date. Initially when I
started to draw concepts for V3 (in early 2020 when V2 was
shipped out), I wanted to have V3.2 launch right after V3.1
would ship. But given the drastically increased lead times
with GMK since then, that would currently put that target
into H2 2022, with subsequent shipping in H2 2023 or
something like that. I don’t imagine many people would be
happy with the idea of getting a new round of Hagoromo sets
shipped out in over two years. So instead, I am looking to
Q1 2022 to launch V3.2 even though V3.1 is not even in
production at that point most likely.
I understand this
is frustrating to hear to those that are only interested in
the Hagoromo version. But as I want to give that colorway a
proper run with all the kits around it instead of being
taped onto a different set, and the other factors listed
above, I hope you can understand my decision. It will make
for a proper GMK Oblivion Hagoromo group buy.