.:`=-~rANdOm~`-=:. Game Servers
.:`=-~rANdOm~`-=:. Game Servers (Read Only) => Discussion => Topic started by: Yellow Killer on March 25, 2014, 05:03:43 PM
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http://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/Facebook-buys-virtual-reality-co-Oculus-for-2B-5348462.php (http://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/Facebook-buys-virtual-reality-co-Oculus-for-2B-5348462.php)
Well so much for Virtual Reality.
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Just /v/ being /v/.
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I love facebook, but I hate the company like no other. Can't decide who's worse: Facebook or EA. It's a close call. This is very depressing. We'll be playing Half-Life 3 on the OR, and all of a sudden an add for Farmville will come up, saying one of our friends invited us to farm with them. smh.
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Say hello to horrible support, monthly fees, and no potential.
That was fun while it lasted. Someone better make AdBlock for it, because you're about to get bombarded up the ass with ads. Also, every damn game they will make will pander to crybabies who don't like social injustice in games.
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Jews gonna jew, nothing new there.
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It's old but I think we should remember this
http://www.ign.com/blogs/splitmindeddude/2013/06/01/oculus-rift-engineer-dies-at-33 (http://www.ign.com/blogs/splitmindeddude/2013/06/01/oculus-rift-engineer-dies-at-33)
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What a tragedy
http://www.ign.com/blogs/splitmindeddude/2013/06/01/oculus-rift-engineer-dies-at-33 (http://www.ign.com/blogs/splitmindeddude/2013/06/01/oculus-rift-engineer-dies-at-33)
I was getting hyped for the happening but then I noticed the date is June 1, 2013. Although still, one can wonder if this might be somehow related to facebook buying Oculus rift.
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You guys are overthinking it. Facebook bought Instagram and look what happened? nothing - they operated like they were never bought
I for one think this Facebook acquisition means Oculus has even more money to play with and will deffo lead to more exciting stuffs
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do you guys really think zuck is that big of an idiot
he's not gonna try to monetize a piece of hardware because as he's demonstrated, he's very very good at making money and knows that he can make much more by offering the hardware without any strings attached and then using his platform to become a market for software that interfaces with it
i haven't looked at the official details much but if it's anything like the whatsapp acquisition, he likely paid that $2 billion mostly in stock options to the owners since (again, i'm just going on conjecture here) it would be more expensive tax-wise to give them 2 billion actual dollars
the evidence going off of the instagram acquisition so far would tell us that there's no reason to believe facebook will even change the rift in any way, this just ensures its success as opposed to earlier when there was a very real risk of the company running out of capital and being unable to fill the vast demand for their product
if this actually fails it's just going to be because everyone threw a fit when capitalism functioned properly for once and refused to buy a product (ironically) because it was backed by such a large investor
it's still bad that facebook is becoming so big imo but this is good for oculus as far as i can tell
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Technically, they didn't "buy" it, just gave an investment to help the Oculus team. It does give room for influence but we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Palmer Luckey's reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21cy9n/the_future_of_vr/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/21cy9n/the_future_of_vr/)
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do you guys really think zuck is that big of an idiot
Fuckerberg ain't dumb, but he certainly doesn't like to do things very ethically and store faith within the customers. So anything can be a gamble at this point.
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Fuckerberg ain't dumb, but he certainly doesn't like to do things very ethically and store faith within the customers. So anything can be a gamble at this point.
Well, from the whole pronoun options debacle we already know he's (probably) willing to appease his customers when he sees fit. It would be idiocy from his position to do anything besides look at the situation and say "Wow, I'll lose a lot of my most loyal customers if I behave unethically. I guess I shouldn't do that."
Still, you're right, it's a gamble. Who knows what he'll do. I don't think having one of the worlds youngest and fastest-made billionaires backing a product is the worst thing in the world, though.
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Chaotic Moon Studios - Rift On This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWEonGJtvwo#ws)
$2000 graphics shopping simulator. Good jerb.
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Chaotic Moon Studios - Rift On This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWEonGJtvwo#ws)
$2000 graphics shopping simulator. Good jerb.
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