I hope he does, because then I'll never have to buy a Vive and save myself a couple hundred bucks.
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Palmer Luckey to appear on HTC Vive stage at TGS
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I hope he does, because then I'll never have to buy a Vive and save myself a couple hundred bucks.
chrominance
Member
Glad to see Luckey is on the verge of making two VR headsets toxic.
Uh, do they? I'm always curious when people post this, but from the few pages I looked at, I didn't notice much that was clearly objectionable.
The more important question is how much they care...
HTC is a Taiwanese company, who knows how they feel about having an alt right guy on stage for them.
Really bad optics.
wumster3000
Member
Yep, Im not touching HTC anything if this is true. Dude can eat a dick.
Could this guy be any more of a douche if he tried? Wow.
As a PS VR owner in theory I should be ambivalent, but since I love VR theres no way this is a good thing for its part of the industry. This guy has singlehandedly ruined the potential for one and now possibly two of only 3 real players for VR. Ugh.
As a PS VR owner in theory I should be ambivalent, but since I love VR theres no way this is a good thing for its part of the industry. This guy has singlehandedly ruined the potential for one and now possibly two of only 3 real players for VR. Ugh.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
I believe thats mostly a joke
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Japan (and probably the rest of the world) dont really care about US current problems.
Hes just one of the guest speakers which includes Tetsuya Mizuguchi and other developers/CEO.
Rats Off To Ya
Banned
Fuck off, Palmer.
Palmer Luckey is a worthless shitbag.
Even if you were Japanese and knew about them, you probably wouldn't know about Luckey's history with them.
plagiarize
Banned
I was leaning towards LG's headset anyway.
Usually, a public entity would not publicly host a figure that harbors socially undesirable views it disagrees with, unless it is a specific event to address those views.
The only intersting thing he could do on stage would be to catch a beer bottle with the center of his forehead at this point.
Dude's been an unapologetic asshole since his company took off, and has pretty much managed to merge the worst traits of a sad internet troll with those of a greedy walled-garden-minded tech CEO.
Dude's been an unapologetic asshole since his company took off, and has pretty much managed to merge the worst traits of a sad internet troll with those of a greedy walled-garden-minded tech CEO.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
I dont think Japan care about what view he is having. Even YOSP is retweeting his visit to a VR arcade in Japan that uses HTC Vive
In fact Jpn devs has been getting him to try their vr stuffs. Hes a mini celebrity there
I'd sooner think the inverse, he was shooed away so he's crawling to the competition to stay in the public eye.
That's not really true, Trump gets a ton of coverage in Japan.
ArtHands
Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Having lots of coverage doesnt necessary mean the common citizens are caring though. They have bigger stuffs to care. Like North Korea, who just launched 2 missiles over Hokkaido recently. And in fact Trump just threatened to take action against North Korea. If they care, they are probably backing his stance against North Korea.
They will only care about how Trumps actions will affect their country. Not what Trump is doing to the US. They probably dont even know or care much about Palmer Luckeys political stance.
Regardless of what Japan cares about, HTC's choice for endorsement is interesting.
hurricanes
Member
HTC is a Taiwanese company, they don't care. Or at least don't until the (backfire)fire is burning their door, which sadly isn't likely to happen in Asia.
Complicated
Banned
How embarrassing for Valve and HTC. VR has been quite the entertaining shitshow.
Stilton Disco
Member
The guy is a utter cunt, and should just fuck off with his fortune and stop bothering everyone.
Wrestlemania
Banned
I'm sure all those people who said they wouldn't support anything Oculus related because of their association with him will be along any minute to say they're selling their Vives. Any minute now.
GhostTrick
Banned
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Maybe I can get one of my boys to throw an egg
Japan's economy and military safety are pretty closely linked w/America but the game industry has no shame anywhere lol
Japan's economy and military safety are pretty closely linked w/America but the game industry has no shame anywhere lol
Chairmanchuck
Member
From:
"Well. An open system is good!"
to
"Well. We are developing exclusive games and locking them to a headset is our right!"
back to
"Well. An open system is good!"
:')
The à¹ÛBronx
Member
Fuck that guy.
That wouldn't make much sense. Valve owns the underlying tech, not HTC. While HTC owns the Vive name and the product itself, it's basically just a manufacturing and distribution partner. Luckey would find himself with a good brand but a product he couldn't ship and no path forward as Valve would take the revised technology to an actual manufacturer with actual manufacturing ability and an actual distribution network.