Facebook buying this is bigger than just for video gamesWho knew facebook would be next contender in video games yuckkkk
This is my reaction.
Occulus didn't want to get in bed with folks directly involved with gaming and making games, yet allows this to happen?
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Translation: THEY PAID US $2,000,000,000!
Well, here's hoping Facebook don't fuck this up.
This is my reaction.
Occulus didn't want to get in bed with folks directly involved with gaming and making games, yet allows this to happen?
So my $300 Kickstarter investment entitles me to a cut of this, right?
Anyway, this is kind of a bummer
I wonder what this will mean for Kickstarter.
Think about it.
A Kickstarter company got sold for 2 fucking billion dollars.
When's the last time Facebook created a gaming thing that gamers actually loved and wasn't completely for people who like Candy Crush?
I've been so tired lately but today I finally got some free time so I checked my Backlog, played one hour of Super Sanctum TD after playing Ground Zeroes but there's always new news on GAF so now I can't leave.
You know what my good fellow GAFfers, I'm getting some motivational Ice-cream!
Yes what happen to that?
You people should seriously stop with this bullshit reasoning of "if it has a bigger company behind, it's probably going to be a better product as well".So... Morpheus looks way more appealing because Oculus Rift has now a lot more money to get a better developpement ?
Going from personal experience, a promising startup getting snapped up by an aggressive corporation early in its lifetime is usually very beneficial financially for the founders and a pretty big detriment to the original vision of the product or service.
Facebook is an advertising company, specifically they're in the business of selling targeted user data to their advertising partners. How that business model distorts the vision for Oculus VR gaming that had so many excited is the reason for the knee jerk negativity.
As Wario64 said on Twitter, it is crazy that Oculus is almost worth ten times less than Whatsapp.
I mean, Jesus. Sadness.
Google panics... buys Valve tomorrow
READ THIS YOU BASTARDS
from our dear leader palmer luckey
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21cy9n/the_future_of_vr/
Google panics... buys Valve tomorrow
I wonder what this will mean for Kickstarter.
Think about it.
A Kickstarter company got sold for 2 fucking billion dollars.
How does that change anything at all?Um, because Project Morpheus looks way more appealing now?
Fucking Facebook is now in charge of Oculus Rift. FACEBOOK
well, that's that
first whatsapp now this
Facebook, like any other big technological company, has a large amount of cash which is waiting to use for buy companies and whatnot. All of us know about its purchase of Whatsapp for a huge amount of money, Google, Apple, you know, all of them are in control of a huge capital.
I only can see one good thing about this, the publicity, now Oculus will be well recognized all around the globe.
But I can't be help to think what for Facebook buy Oculus and I'm afraid that the original idea of Oculus might be vanished.
This is meaningless to VR's gaming future, Rift is hot because people care, but now they'll just care about whoever comes next, and it's probably going to be Valve.Honestly, I am 100% sure this is a success for the short term, and an absolute tragedy in the long term. By that point, I expect to jump to a competitor. I don't think I've ever been so conflicted about the future