The novelty of carbon fiber is pretty cool, but the price is pretty steep and understandably so. What I'm most curious is the USPCC standard courts and pips being used. Are those copyrighted? Obviously there's nothing wrong with someone that takes inspiration from the standard courts and drawing their own version of them, but how does creating a copy of them work, especially when using for their own profit.
Has anyone wondered what these cards would be like for throwing :| ...
Suspect they might pack a punch, more of a punch than the usual cards anyway.
I remember reading somewhere that someone was making banshee throwing cards that "scream" through the air when thrown in a certain way. That idea but made in carbon fibre would be pretty cool i think
The novelty of carbon fiber is pretty cool, but the price is pretty steep and understandably so. What I'm most curious is the USPCC standard courts and pips being used. Are those copyrighted? Obviously there's nothing wrong with someone that takes inspiration from the standard courts and drawing their own version of them, but how does creating a copy of them work, especially when using for their own profit.
Generic card faces can't be copyrighted. A legal concept called "prior art" takes precedence, because standard playing cards have been around for hundreds of years. It's the same reason why you can't copyright a font. A font is just another way of presenting the alphabet, and there's no way in hell your font artist will convince the Copyright Office that he or she created the alphabet...
This deck...will not last "forever" or even close to it. The carbon fiber isn't actually printed - it's silk-screened. Silk-screened images will wear off of the carbon fiber surface over time, especially when shuffled against other rather hard carbon fiber surfaces, a.k.a. the rest of the deck. I'd wager a good plastic deck would actually outlast the finish on the carbon fiber cards, and it costs a fraction of the price.
Plain and simple, it's a novelty item, just like Sly Kly's "floating face" dice. Why would any serious dice head want a die that rattles like a baby's toy? The loose piece in the cage will throw off the physics of the roll, affecting the randomness of the outcome. As Sparkz mentioned, this would have big appeal to the custom car community, but not as much for custom carD collectors in general, especially with that price tag...
I am not sure if I will stay in this project. I was the first pledge but I am struggling with this novelty and the fact that it's $120. Also Sly has been very quiet on his project . Not that I am looking for daily updates but maybe more excitement or energy. Just feel like the whole thing is low key On the fence right now :-\ :-\
I am not sure if I will stay in this project. I was the first pledge but I am struggling with this novelty and the fact that it's $120. Also Sly has been very quiet on his project . Not that I am looking for daily updates but maybe more excitement or energy. Just feel like the whole thing is low key On the fence right now :-\ :-\
If it doesn't look right, feel right, sound right, taste right or smell right - it's probably not right...
Try contacting the project creator and suggest he make more frequent updates.
Not all project creators are as gung-ho and full of updates as someone like Jackson is - and it's a good reason why many of their projects fail. If they're not selling it, promoting it, making it seem like the next best thing since air - well, then it doesn't appear like their heart is really into it. It doesn't even mean it's a scam, just that the creator isn't pushing it in front of the right people and with the right energy level.
I compare it to performing magic. I could perform the best trick in the world for you, just as the creator could make the best widget in the world for you. There's two ways I can perform that trick - if I perform it cold and stiff, like an automaton, totally devoid of patter, it will come across totally flat and even dull; if I jazz things up, tell a joke or two, do just enough waving of hands and fingers, maybe produce some smoke, it will make people's jaws drop to the floor in astonishment. It's a matter of "selling" the trick. If a project creator has all the excitement of a TRS-80 Model I computer on sale now, people will give it a pass or drop out if they did give it a chance. But if the excitement level is more on par with the iPhone 9sxz complete with a 3D holographically-projected Siri equipped with artificial intelligence, emotion subroutines and force field technology so you can hold her hand and she can fetch you a beer, it's going to be a dog pile of investors, everyone wanting in on the action.
Don, do you mind elaborating on why you think this won't appeal to custom card collectors in general?
I will be letting go of my EB pledge ($120 tier, w/ metal case) approximately 2 hrs and 30 minutes from now, at 12 AM EST, if anyone wants to claim it.
If you look at the comments for the creator's first carbon fiber deck, there are a lot of complaints about quality. To be fair, he/she could have a different supplier now, so the quality issues may be in the past, but at least for the first deck, there were many complaints and most were met with the comment of "I'll let the supplier know" and apparently not much else. They are worth reading through. I was curious as to how the deck turned out (I didn't pledge because I was worried about issues with splinters, which some are apparently having), so I read through the comments a couple of weeks ago just to see how it all turned out. Los of comments about ink coming off as well with the creator responding by saying that the underlying image should be enough to make them usable even if the ink wears/flakes off.
Doesn't look like they come with a tuck box.