CM Bram wrote:
However @all, coming back to the topic: should CM consider selling generic (or CM boards) custom key caps?
Either that, or, I would like if CM were the first major company to actually offer quality keycaps
on stock keyboards.
This is something that few manufacturers have achieved, and the newest, most expensive consumer keyboards coming out suffer from cheap, low quality and low durability ABS keycaps.
Look at this:
A keyboard that costs 150€ new. That is thin ABS plastic sprayed black, legends lasered out, then coated to increase durability. Still, it's cheap, it's not durable, it looks terrible after a week (even with clean fingers stains will show on heavily-used areas) and it sounds and feels low quality. This is from the company who invented the MX switch, and who used to manufacture thick PBT dye-sub keycap sets that are now highly valued by collectors and enthusiasts.
Corsairs RGB keyboards cost even more and despite their advanced backlighting features they have failed to ship quality keycaps with their keyboards.
Logitech, QPAD and CM Storm are also guilty of this. The first two are known for producing keycaps whose stems break off within or shortly after the warranty period. This means their caps can't even last 2-3 years!
This is for keyboards using MX Switches which are rated for 50 million actuations. The switches can last for ages and so can some of the Cherry keycap sets. I am typing this on Cherry switches and keycaps from the 1990s by the way.
I have not had broken CM Storm keycaps but the caps on the backlit keyboards are fairly thin as well, and I found that the Rapid-i suffers immensely from this quality negligence. After putting my own keycaps on there, the typing experience was improved a lot. The Novatouch is a quality keyboard but the caps... Well you should know, in the US it was sold without keycaps even.
Look at companies like Ducky, and Vortex. Both produce some quality keycap sets out of thick PBT material. Vortex has not only managed to sell a stock keyboard with high-quality thick caps (the Pok3r), but also created a doubleshot PBT set for backlit keyboards. That should be the only kind of caps shipped with an expensive backlit keyboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb0v3qYML0U
Gotta love the cherry keycap compatible stems if I may say so myself hehe 
Or should we consider making and selling seperate keycap sets? 
. Honestly i would just go for caps you can buy like the ones your rocking now, or cherry profile PBT, something that shows off the awesome switches you have in that thing 
