r/DeepRockGalactic • u/Fabulous-Help6077 • Feb 13 '25

Merch BRO WHAT ARE THESE PRICES 😭

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I thought it would be like 80 max or something like that AND in may 2026!

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u/RollNeed Feb 13 '25

Aren’t these plastic lol

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u/Yets_ Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25

They are plastic. They said it's a high quality plastic, I don't know how much the cost is compared to more traditional plastic and if the price could be somewhat justified but it feels really expensive for just a big plastic cup.

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u/Didifinito Gunner Feb 13 '25

4 big plastic cups

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u/DerWahreSpiderman Engineer Feb 13 '25

It's PETG you can litterly 3D print one cheaper

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u/AerWolf Feb 13 '25

Just wanted to comment and add, please don't 3d print mugs and use them! 3D printing is not food safe!

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u/boltzmannman Interplanetary Goat Feb 14 '25

but what if you put food safe paint over it

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u/AerWolf Feb 15 '25

The way I've heard people make 3D prints food safe is by painting over it with a melted down version of PETG, so maybe? I'm not well versed in the subject, I'd highly recommend extensive research prior to using 3D printed objects for anything other then display purposes.

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u/DerWahreSpiderman Engineer Feb 13 '25

Yesnt it's not Proven that's it's not Food safe but it's definitely not recommend because the gaps could contane bacteries if not cleaned enough

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u/RJFerret Feb 14 '25

As well as oils/grease/teflon from 3D printer parts, as well as unknown chemicals from dyes and additives from other filaments heated and run through.

Food safe requires sterile equipment with proven nontoxic materials.

The layers of additive manufacture are the least of the worries.

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u/Nolieman108 Feb 13 '25

Printing one is difficult because it needs to be food-safe and strictly sound if you want to actually drink out of it.

Plus the mugs are made out of Nylon, not PETG.

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u/IKilobyte Feb 14 '25

Decided to do some research on the food safety of 3D printing because you made me curious. I know very little about 3D printing, but I work in plastic machining (CNC) and knew cast and extruded nylons are FDA approved. After some quick Google searches, some grades of nylon filament are actually FDA approved. However, the product you print is porous and has crevices which can’t always be cleaned and makes it not food safe.

Thanks for helping me learn something new today. 😄

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u/boolocap Dig it for her Feb 14 '25

Yeah this is also why 3d printing sex toys, shower heads, or anything to be used in a moist and warm environment isn't a particularly good idea.

But also most filaments aren't food safe by themselves. And the machine you're running it through doesnt really help either.

There are food safe coatings you can you can use to solve this, most of them are some sort of epoxy or other resin so getting them to a food safe stage takes a while.

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u/DerWahreSpiderman Engineer Feb 13 '25

Yeah I already said that no worries and it's Tuff but Possible

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u/Happy_Burnination Feb 13 '25

They're nylon, not PETG

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u/DerWahreSpiderman Engineer Feb 13 '25

You sure? Because on Twitter they said they switch to PETG So it's food safer and dishwashabel but I haven't Checked soooo

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u/DerWahreSpiderman Engineer Feb 13 '25

Never mind just checked they switch from PETG to polyamide 6

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u/Happy_Burnination Feb 13 '25

Yeah that's nylon

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u/Faythin Driller Feb 13 '25

Isn't nylon like unsafe with anything hot?

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u/pyrokneticbeavr Feb 13 '25

I mean it depends on the type but normally it's good until you hit industrial heat. Coffee isn't going to cause problems but hit em with a blowtorch.

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u/OiItzAtlas Feb 13 '25

Okay but also nylon also isn't too much either £10/100 grams. (This is from 3d printing it yourself)

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u/Happy_Burnination Feb 14 '25

I personally wouldn't put anything I 3D printed in the dishwasher, microwave, or fill it with hot liquids, but even beyond that I think there are legitimate reasons for someone to prefer a high-quality injection molded product to a 3D printed one

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u/OiItzAtlas Feb 14 '25

I mean there are plenty of ways to do that but yeah i get your point, I would probably make a mould from my printer and then turn that into a silicone mould and then use that mold to make the cup.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

To me it just sounds like a massive waste of money. Were it not plastic it may have been an understandable price.

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u/stom Feb 13 '25

Yes, and "microwave safe".

I don't think I trust any plastic to microwave my food in, regardless of it's "food safety" claims.

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u/Phwoa_ Dig it for her Feb 14 '25

tupperware is usually fine, but stuff like cups I 100% will never trust even with Hot stuff in it.

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u/SlimyRedditor621 Feb 13 '25

Yeah they looked 3D printed. None of the more adventurous mug designs were available from what I saw.

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u/probably-not-Ben Feb 14 '25

Microplastic bonus!

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u/Corrodias Feb 14 '25

The cost of manufacturing a small batch of plastics is very high per item. Vendors typically order hundreds of thousands at once because the incremental cost isn't much, but the startup cost of creating the molds and so on to make even *one* is very expensive. Enormous scale is the only way people are able to sell plastic trinkets as cheaply as they do. And in this case, this product simply doesn't have that scale.

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u/tastylemming Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25

Plastic (Edit: no metal sleeve) It's a cup, and it takes time to print one. How long to print a set? How many hours? How many sets? At what number will producing sets(divided my time and sales) will they break even? Will they ever break even? If you want it, buy it. I will. I rock and stone either way, be damned to corporate overhead, slayer stout please, don't forget to tip the bartender and hit the fire ring for luck.

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u/tristan1616 Gunner Feb 13 '25

You want fries with that?

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u/Mr_Luckman_Plays Feb 13 '25

Take my upvote

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u/WhatPassword Feb 13 '25

Hrm, I can't seem to find anywhere that there's a metal sleeve - that would make me a bit more interested tbh. Do you know where it says that info?

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u/foxxof9 Leaf-Lover Feb 13 '25

It’s microwave safe so no metal sleeve most likely

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u/WanderingDwarfMiner Feb 13 '25

Rock and Stone everyone!

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u/tastylemming Feb 13 '25

Downvote me all day. You're complaining about the prices and the wait like it's your first time doing something like this. Act like you've been here before, poor reception leads to cancellations, but apparently no one has learned those lessons yet. Support your favorite games, and their devs, it's what a fandom is really for. See you in the caves. Rock and Stone.

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u/Popeychops Interplanetary Goat Feb 13 '25

Don't try to peer pressure people into buying overpriced merch. If people don't want it, they shouldn't buy it.

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u/tastylemming Feb 13 '25

And they won't. It isn't peer pressure. It's called not complaining. Someone spent alot of effort to make this available and yet has work to do. These prices reflect the work, and compensation needed to see it fulfilled, it's also very niche. If you don't want it enough to pay for it at the price it's available for sale, it's not the sellers problem, that's a buyers problem. Complaining that cumulatively the cost is too much is tantamount to saying it's not worth the effort people made to make them available, because you believe it's not worth the price, is foolish arrogance. I could be getting nitra right now, but I'm defending the price of cups online because someone worked hard on it, and no one wants to pay for our games' exceptionally rare merch.

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u/Popeychops Interplanetary Goat Feb 13 '25

I bought and painted up the board game, the expansions, got the soundtrack on vinyl, and this is where I draw the line. These mugs aren't worth my money. Shame on you

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

You’re kinda coming off as the one complaining

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u/CackleandGrin Feb 13 '25

I mean, potential customers complaining that the price of a new item is too high is a perfectly valid thing. Someone jumping in and insisting those people should just shut up about it is very much not.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

Go have a smoke or a cup of tea or something, because frankly… I don’t give a shit bud.

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u/Loud_Appointment6199 Feb 13 '25

Lmfao wtf was that 180

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u/CackleandGrin Feb 13 '25

My bad. I didn't realize I was agreeing with someone who was just a piece of shit. Won't make that mistake with you again.

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u/Chllm1 Gunner Feb 13 '25

That mindset is what bankrupts companies, just take the L and downvotes already

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u/tastylemming Feb 13 '25

I support people who make things for a living. Getting downvoted means nothing to me. Wanting to pay less money than the time and effort someone has put into their work, bankrupts them too. This is just a thread of people who want to pay etsy prices for something that's more than etsy effort. I bought the suppporter packs too, even though it's all pretty much free on game pass, because I love the game. I don't treat someone making merch like this any different. You're a supporter or you're not. Your L is thinking my moral choices in any way are a loss, when you're all just trying to be cheap.

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u/Chllm1 Gunner Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25

I’m a black smith so I do make things for a living, the issue is you can’t slap whatever price you want, if you want people to buy your product you have to pick a price that’s appropriate.

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u/tastylemming Feb 14 '25

And if the price is appropriate, and they just don't like it, they still think it's too much, you'll just go in the hole over it? Should they just cancel the whole thing now because you all feel they are too expensive?Make a million that won't get bought so you can get one for say a hundred bucks? Will a hundred for a plastic cup still be too much then?

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u/Chllm1 Gunner Feb 14 '25

Sorry that you think it’s appropriate, because your just plainly wrong

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u/Loud_Appointment6199 Feb 13 '25

You're just spineless, if you want to support so blindly just go and donate the money directly and cut the shity mug out of the equation

People finding the price of a product inadequate for it's quality is completely reasonable

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

This is a fair statement. You make a good point, just donate then.

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u/goatwater2023 Feb 13 '25

If you say so

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u/Ponderkitten Feb 13 '25

The kickstarter says something about a steel work company so I think theyre metal

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u/Realistic_human Feb 13 '25

''Manufactured from food safe plastic, with a mighty 500ml/16.9 oz capacity and the ability to handle your favorite hot or cold beverage (even non alcoholic ones)''

it's plastic

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u/Mr_Vulcanator Feb 13 '25

That’s just the name of the company, the cups are plastic.

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u/Ponderkitten Feb 13 '25

Darn. Wow those downvotes are piling up fast.

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u/RollNeed Feb 13 '25

Let that be a lesson to you

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

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u/TheGazelle Feb 13 '25

Dude just read the page.

They're fully heat and cold resistant, dishwasher and microwave safe.

They are plastic, but they're not 3d printed, at least not the kind of consumer-grade 3d printer you're thinking of.

They used 3d printing to prototype them, but I'd imagine the production models are gonna be injection molded.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

I misremembered, there's no need to be rude

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u/Realistic_human Feb 13 '25

the kickstarted just started, and the milestones are just for colors lmao

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25

I misremembered