DavidWoner
The Punchmaster
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Indeed, I think if we allowed the promotion of knockoffs, they would outsell Vcubes easily.
I also disagree with this, though for different reasons than qq. V-Cubes doesn't see speedcubers as it's main market for the future, they are instead targeting the general population (hence the release of the V-2 before 8+). This is why V-Cubes North America is just a branch that wholesales to retailers, rather than making individual shipments. Paraphrasing Dan, KV said that he never intended for the v-cubes website to be the place where people primarily bought cubes, he wanted to sell them in stores. If he want's to become the next Rubik's I say more power to him, and wish him the best with that. But V-Cubes is not really acting with the best interests of speedcubers at heart, no matter what facade they put up. I'm not saying we should act maliciously against V-Cubes. I'm saying that as we have no obligation to them, we should do what is in our best interest, which is to free the information about KOs. Considering we are no longer the target market for V-Cubes, a portion of us purchasing KOs is not really going to hurt.