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Welcome to MT3 Noctua! 🦉 DROP is the home of licensed Noctua keycap sets. Highlights of the project:
Drop + MiTo MT3 Noctua Keycap Set
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MiTo
Dec 14, 2021
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Welcome to MT3 Noctua! 🦉 DROP is the home of licensed Noctua keycap sets. Highlights of the project:
- Licensed by Noctua, in Austria
- 1st MT3 doubleshot community designed set and it features doubleshot novelties
- DEL key inside the Base Kit with no aditional cost (as it should be)
- 📣MiTo's Discord - updates, news, help center and more
- 📸MiTo's Instagram - updates and stuff
eternalbuzz
30
Sep 20, 2022
MiToCan you ask Drop to work on their shipping? It takes a month to get my stuff and thats ridiculous. In the time it took for my Noctua caps to arrive, I had packages arriving from china, england, korea, australia and all over the mainland US. All ordered AFTER my Noctua set shipped. Theres no reason it should take a month to get keycaps through the post
Snipekillz
13
Dec 16, 2021
Once again I am deeply saddened of the exclusion of Nordic/German keycaps. When, if ever, will there be Nordic/German keycaps in an MT3 set?
Besides that, I absolutely love the colour scheme of Noctua, and with it on a keyboard, aswell as it being MT3(YEEEES!), I can barely contain my glee. But due to the complete lack of Nordic keycaps (like always), I will not be purchasing.
Mivey
38
Feb 2, 2022
There's is "no demand" on Drop today, since Drop has pretty much no European presence. I love the products Drop offers (the Pegaso desk mat I got a couple of weeks ago is pure bliss), but shipping times are at times insane (near a month if you're unlucky, and I'm talking after Drop has sent it out) and since Drop doesn't use IOSS, you then still need to deal with import fees and taxes.
If Drop were to actually get a warehouse in the EU, and target mechanical keyboards fans across the continent, including properly supporting various ISO layouts, both in keycaps and keyboards, I'm sure there's potential to build up a customer base. I understand that would require some investment, huge up front costs and it will take time before it can become profitable. It's probably not a risk a small company like Drop can or perhaps should take.
But it feels wrong to flat out say that there is no demand at all.
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MiTo
13956
MiTo
Feb 3, 2022
MiveySetting up a distribution front in EU is much more complicate then it seems, to be honest if it was worth doing drop would’ve done it by now but I don’t know.
Baumstyler
104
Dec 15, 2021
So you make a collab with one of the ten or so austrian companies that are widely known somewhere else than locally over here and still dont provide an international or at least DE kit?
Roflmao.
was that mito's or drops idea?
Baumstyler
104
Dec 15, 2021
all imo:
nothing will change with this approach, >> people cant get iso of choice and some if not many migrate to ansi since that is where all the options are > less people buy iso = less demand> less iso kits . . . and so on, it only naturally gets worse when nobody produces them.
mostly ortho user here btw, i know a few iso guys around me who would buy more sets if the options were there.
also its not like drop hasnt the money to give some support and eat up those extra kits , especially since they try to establish themselves as some kind of premium site with all that brand deals. [not like drop would be good in doing so most of the time]
signature plastics should have all the molds for it and MOQ wouldnt be such a big problem longterm if one would include other more often bought iso-kit caps into another small kit like uk-iso and raise the price of those set,its not like uk people would suddenly stop buying those just because of 20-40 or so more bucks, other set done so and sold well.
and sure, lets ask gmk, the manufactor to include these kits into sets they dont create, pretty absurd statement,especially when its coming from you,lol.
again ,its not like i dont understand why most sets dont get broad iso support,but with a design around an austrian fan company its not too farfetched to assume an DE ISO kit or even support in the basekit,is it?
its kinda not completely true that eu iso's wouldnt sell at least ok'ish over time if setdesigners would include the kits and dont 'force' that part of the userbase to migrate or dont even start to get deeper into that hobby.
im not just complaining for the sake of it,im just concerned about the state of kitting for niche layouts and the things that change because of it.
greetings o/
MiTo
13956
MiTo
Dec 15, 2021
BaumstylerGreetings as well, thanks for the rational reply, I invite you to look at my portfolio and analyse that I included Euro kits every single time I had the chance to, sometimes completely ignoring the costs and repercussions of my actions (like you said, Drop forking the costs) and in many of them you can see the results (sales of the Euro kits) for yourself. Look at XDA Godspeed as the prime example. Literally 2 people bought the UK ISO kit in blue.
http://mitormk.com
I can tell you that absolutely nothing came out of my pushes, other than a handful of customers being happy. It didn't increase the adoption of Euro, people didn't buy it more, other creators didn't start including it and 8 years later here we are having this conversation again (and I guarantee you nothing will change, every single time is the same thing). As a creator, I did my part, economies of scale and demand are the culprits for this situation. It just doesn't work. With all due respect, like I told another guy here, if anyone digs custom keycaps just migrate to ANSI. I am an ISO ABNT 2 user myself and can't justify using my own native layout to type PT.
HarvestDay
135
Mar 13, 2023
There was a post recently saying they'd be back in about two months (May-ish).
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Hyperion
27
Dec 15, 2021
Not sure why all the MT3 sets are now ABS. No one can seriously prefer it over PBT. Too shiny and slippery without the texture of PBT. I'll stick to Devtty MT3 PBT
A community member
Dec 16, 2021
HyperionSome of us do actually prefer ABS! Besides ABS's deeper and richer colors (and ability to have light legends on dark keys), PBT feels chalky, dry, and unpleasant to me. I don't like the sound it makes compared to ABS.
DClaville
24
Dec 15, 2021
Pointless without an international kit... Shame it really could have been nice to have these caps
Elrick
2105
Dec 16, 2021
Loads, not buying, who the hell are you sunshine?
Shall be buying this key-cap set simply because I represent the other 6.5 Billion on Planet Earth not living in America or UK. The population is huge and deserve this Noctua Kit above all else (who cares about what's left of Europe now?) Just ignore it and carry on ; )
I won't be crying about the UK being ignored here, simply because we all hate POMs here in Convict Town and never shed a tear when they get ignored or dismissed anywhere on Planet Earth.
This is the first truly NICE key cap set done, not being attributed to the morose Marvel or DC range of demented children comics.
Nice to see Noctua finally get some deserved attention because they do in fact design and manufacture supreme fans and cooling devices for 21st Century PC Hardware. Have loads of them already, none have ever died or failed to cool dozens of CPUs made by Intel and AMD.
XTaran
361
Dec 16, 2021
ElrickJFTR: Not everyone in Europe uses or prefers ISO layout.
I myself switched from German layout to US English layout years before I got into this hobby, i.e. not because of the keycap set availability (and also not because of ISO vs ANSI) but because of usability and the awkwardness of <AltGr>: If you're programming or doing Unix system administration, nearly every local layout in Europe is awkward to type on, especially the German, Swiss-German or French layouts. One of "<" and ">" needs Shift to be pressed and the other not. "[", "]", "{", "}", "|", or "\" are on <AltGr>-<something> and causes knotted fingers despite you need them very often in both, programming or commandline shells. Not to mention the extremely awkward French layout where numbers are on <Shift>-<some special character>.
And with regards to umlauts: The Compose key exists in every Linux distribution and just needs to be enabled. This allows you to type way more characters without remembering or looking up code numbers or a 140% keyboard. E.g. <Compose> <"> <a> in a row (i.e. not at the same time but one after one) gives me an "ä", <Compose> <e> <=> gives me "€", <Compose> <^> <|> gives me "↑", and <Compose> <t> <m> gives me a "™". The compose key functionality is also available for alternative operating systems like Windows: https://github.com/SamHocevar/wincompose
And an Unix alternative to the Compose key is this ancient method of entering ISO-Latin-1 special characters (including umlauts): https://fsinfo.noone.org/~abe/typing-8bit.html (Causes knotted fingers though as well as it requires to keep Alt or Meta pressed.)
This even worked back in the SunOS 4 days and still works in most text-mode applications on Linux today—proper stty settings presumed.
So yes, I'm probably one of these Europeans who never buy NorDE or EU kits because the only mechanical keyboards with ISO layout I have are vintage ones. All those I buy are US English ANSI, even if it costs me an extra effort to get them in Europe.
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MiTo
13956
MiTo
Dec 14, 2021
NothatsoThe Chromax version is a different product line that will come in the future.
Elrick
2105
Dec 16, 2021
MiToThat one would be nice done in PBT. Imagine having the Choice of both the standard Noctua and Chromax sets.
One is all ABS and the other all PBT : )
That would make DROP become cool again, not seen in decades.....
smk267
11
Feb 14, 2023
The H key is differently shapen from the rest of the keys in its row. The keycaps that came with the keyboard (Ducky One 2) don't have this issue. Is anybody else seeing this? This can't be intentional, can it?
Bitvar
0
Dec 14, 2021
Thank God they are ABS or I might have dumped a ton of money on this set. But I like to use my keycaps, not look at them, so PBT is the only option.
Elrick
2105
Dec 16, 2021
BitvarHave to agree that PBT is KING - but - it's a Noctua keyset seen nowhere else on the net.
If this means personally acquiring a Noctua Set in ABS it's still better than another cheapo DCS or Cherry mundane set, seen everywhere else.
WanderingMaskedFox
8
Dec 14, 2021
Awesome Set! Have been waiting for someone to do this forever. I have been following your discord and I just Pre-Ordered this set. Do you know when/if the Noctua Mat and Cable will be available for Pre-Order? Thank you.
WanderingMaskedFox
8
Dec 14, 2021
Ok, thank you for the response. Looking forward to those releases as well. Keep up the great work!
LukasM
1652
Studio Team
Dec 16, 2021
WanderingMaskedFoxThanks! Rest assured you guys will know when we release them.
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