Corsair is buying Drop

[Findecanor]

Corsair's press-release:

Drop will remain a separate brand within CORSAIR and all existing warranties, purchases and customer support requests will continue to be handled directly by the team at Drop.

Drop's blog

Drop will continue as a brand, team and community within Corsair. You may already know that Corsair also owns Elgato, Origin and SCUF brands, which continue to operate independently.

[Muirium]

And so they're buying Geekhack, too?

[785an]

It will be interesting to see how this will affect Geekhack.

[Findecanor]

Posted on Reddit:

[–]drop_official Drop / Massdrop [score hidden] 34 minutes ago
geekhack, being under the Drop umbrella, was included in the purchase. We expect no changes to geekhack for the time being, but will of course share if/when that changes.

[XMIT]

April 1st was ages ago. What gives?

[mmm]

It will be interesting to see how this will affect Geekhack.

Hopefully better than another keyboard-related forum that was recently-ish acquired

[ifohancroft]

Personally, I'm hoping for the following:

- Drop will remain the same
- Geekhack will remain the same
- Corsair will start offering better keyboards. At least with other plate mounting styles besides just plate mounting. I don't know if it's realistic to hope that they will start producing metal case keyboards, and definitely not realistic to hope that they will start using open source firmware. I mean it never hurts to have more high quality mass produced keyboards.

[Muirium]

I’ve done my share of hoping through the years. Sign me up for a stiff shot of “man, we thought it was bad under MassDrop but they well and truly ruined that place like a two dollar girl of ill-repute.” It’s my version of Pascal’s wager. Glass half empty? The only way is up!

[ifohancroft]

I’ve done my share of hoping through the years. Sign me up for a stiff shot of “man, we thought it was bad under MassDrop but they well and truly ruined that place like a two dollar girl of ill-repute.” It’s my version of Pascal’s wager. Glass half empty? The only way is up!

You are probably right. I guess since I obviously don't want things to go downhill, hoping is my default state, so I guess I just keep hoping until they screw things up, so I don't have to have it constantly in the back of my mind and worry about it