“We want to do a better job incorporating the community as a whole during the early production process of all our keyboard products so that this doesn’t happen again,” Glorious said.
Glorious also said it agreed to his ideas for how the company can do a better job of working within the keyboard community moving forward. The resolution includes an offer to compensate him financially, which was “respectfully turned down” by Alexotos. With this in mind, Glorious wants to do what is right by the keyboard community and Alexotos, and the company reached an “amicable resolution with him.”
“We realise we made a mistake proceeding with the release of this keycap set without informing and involving Alex much earlier in the process,” wrote Glorious.
The passion from the community about this topic is clear, and many feel angered and hurt by the situation.” “Since the release of Celestial, we have received a lot of feedback from both customers and partners. The company added that since the first batches of Celestial keycaps have been made, Glorious proceeded with the release. Unfortunately, we were not able to come to an agreement at that time,” Glorious said. “The next day, we reached back out to Alex with intentions of coming to a mutual resolution to preserve our working relationship. We did not consult Alex at this time, as we were confident the keycap set had enough differences, and Aether was no longer being produced,” the company added.Ī couple of weeks before release, Glorious did eventually get in touch with Alexotos, in which he expressed “clear disappointment upon seeing the similarities between the sets.” He also told Glorious of his plan to release a second run of the Aether keycap set (Glorious was unaware of this) and that Celestial Fire could harm him financially. “Although the colourways were similar (Celestial Fire and Aether), after internal discussion, our production teams agreed the final design was not a copy of Aether, and continued with production. “Neither set (Celestial Fire and Ice) was modeled after or inspired by any specific existing set,” the company wrote.īut sometime during the production process, it “came to light internally that the Celestial Fire colourway looked similar to that of an existing set put out by Alexotos,” Glorious continued. 5CnQK3nZas- josh November 4, 2021Ī few days after the Celestial keycaps went up for sale, Glorious finally released a statement addressing the situation. In fact, many keyboard content creators have posted a response to the release of the GPBT Celestial keycaps even Taeha Types himself chimed in. Needless to say, this is frowned upon by the custom keyboard community. Quite similar, aren’t they? Granted, clones of popular keycap sets – especially ones from GMK – have always been available in the market, but it’s very rare for a big, established company like Glorious to do the same. Judge for yourself with the images below.
Celestial Fire is very similar to Infinikey Aether designed by Alexotos (a keyboard content creator), while Celestial Ice looks like SA DreamEater.Īs mentioned, these four keycaps sets are not carbon copies of each other, but there’s no denying that they share a similar design language. So what are the keycap sets that started this uproar? Well, they’re Glorious’ new GPBT Celestial Fire and Celestial Ice sets. Though the design of the keycap sets in question are not exactly the same, you can definitely see the similarities. In response, many folks – even big names in the custom keyboard hobby – are criticizing Glorious’ action. Just recently, the company introduced a couple of new keycap sets, and…they look very similar to existing sets. Glorious forayed into the enthusiast keyboard scene quite a bit since it released the Glorious Panda switch and the GMMK Pro.
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