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Ke1N
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Mar 2014 19:18 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Mar 2014 19:36 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Mar 2014 19:53 Post subject: |
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Werelds
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| zmed wrote: | | Now I'm glad I never invested in this. Will be interesting to see how this will impact the regular games that already have OR implemented (War Thunder, ETS2, etc). |
That's more about getting to work with VR and its caveats, it's not as if that won't apply to any other device 
No matter what happens to the OR, for the companies who've been working with it it's been valuable experience in this new field. |
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Raccoon
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Mar 2014 22:17 Post subject: |
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| Raccoon wrote: | | sabin1981 wrote: | | It's a shame, a huge shame, that this had to happen because it's just going to shake faith and confidence in the product. |
It's also going to shake faith in any future Kickstarter hardware campaigns.
Potential backers will find it harder to trust anyone from now on.  |
Isn't the whole point of kickstarter for it to be crowd-funded without publishers and it's ilk meddling in the creation/development?
After this move I'd be very weary from now on what I would back because what's the point if they sell out before they are even done with it?
Anywho, let's see what happens to OR after this. ^_^ |
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nerrd
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To put it simply the point of the kickstarter is to channel money to the project so the project leaders can do what they wish. The problem is that people seem uninformed about what actually kickstarter is. You are gifting money and all you can do is hope for rewards, that is all.
Speaking about OR specifically, they promised to deliver DK1, and they did, plus then some.
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Grale
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The question I have, is how many of us here will cancel the dev kit 2 pre orders.
This wouldn't be so bad if OR wasn't crowd funded by kickstart. original backers must feel pretty let down and angry right now. I guess the $$ blinded them, can't I say I don't understand, that's a lot of money and they're financial futures are very secure now.
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Mar 2014 22:56 Post subject: |
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Well, Carmack must be happy as a pig in shit now about his decision to jump ship from ID software. 
- "I'm rich, bitch!"
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Mar 2014 23:14 Post subject: |
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| Grale wrote: | The question I have, is how many of us here will cancel the dev kit 2 pre orders.
This wouldn't be so bad if OR wasn't crowd funded by kickstart. original backers must feel pretty let down and angry right now. I guess the $$ blinded them, can't I say I don't understand, that's a lot of money and they're financial futures are very secure now. |
I won't cancel it, not because fb took over. But i watch what will happen with the OR and if i don't like it there's still plenty time to cancel.
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vurt
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Mar 2014 23:25 Post subject: |
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| Grale wrote: | The question I have, is how many of us here will cancel the dev kit 2 pre orders.
This wouldn't be so bad if OR wasn't crowd funded by kickstart. original backers must feel pretty let down and angry right now. I guess the $$ blinded them, can't I say I don't understand, that's a lot of money and they're financial futures are very secure now. |
Not gonna cancel.. If anything the Dev Kit 2 could be better (or at least more "interesting") than the final product now in some aspects (built in limitations / restrictions in the final product?).
Will the final version still have the USB port etc? ..built in Facebook perhaps? ;D
Even if i seem to be one of the least negative in the thread i do agree it's "shitty" against the original backers who probably didnt have this in mind or might even be very against facebook, that'd suck.. Personally i dont care, i use FB, i guess im kind of neutral, neither like it or hate it.
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3E74
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..:: Life - A sexually transmitted disease which always ends in death. There is currently no known cure::..  |
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| Posted: Thu, 27th Mar 2014 01:48 Post subject: I have left. |
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kumkss
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tonizito
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| Quote: | | This acquisition/partnership gives us more control of our destiny, not less! |
The level of idiocy necessary to believe in something like this must be... I don't even 
I didn't have anything invested in OR (since I'm a poor peasant for the moment) and we will still have to wait and see on how this deal turns out, but that sentence right there just annoys me to no end.
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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ixigia
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The Rift has probably now become a lost cause, but as an external witness who didn't invest a single dime on it I'm not too concerned, because good alternatives will start to appear sooner than we think, it's a new market after all and everyone is free to come up with valid ideas and even better implementations/projects. That said, it's sad that things went to the dogs at such an early stage..
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facebook is not stupid enough to entrench shitware and a closed platform with oculus until much much later. You need a user base before you do these kinds of things. Oculus will be successful and down the line when and if it becomes closed off, that's when someone else will take the lead.
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| Maxxify wrote: | | I guess the best way to describe it is as a community which has a psychological stake ("glory") in its success. Facebook might take away some of the kickstarter sheen ("recognition"), as well. |
Quoting my reply to Interactive to give an example of what I mean, quoted from Gawker's Joel Johnson who gave $300 to Oculus:
"I still feel as if circumstance removed me from an opportunity to turn my speculative belief in the future of VR and Oculus's role in it into real money."
Courtesy Kotaku's article about Kickstarter backers asking for refunds.
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| ixigia wrote: | | The Rift has probably now become a lost cause, but as an external witness who didn't invest a single dime on it I'm not too concerned, because good alternatives will start to appear sooner than we think, it's a new market after all and everyone is free to come up with valid ideas and even better implementations/projects. That said, it's sad that things went to the dogs at such an early stage.. |
This
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jippyuk
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Lovely! Thanks for that post, was great being able to read all the replies in one nice simple manner....
Was raging when I first heard about this news but I'm kinda seeing it in a different light now, i hate facebook but im on the fence as to what this means for oculus.
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VonMisk
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When someone gives you 2 billion dollars you can't be independent, you have to gain that money back for investor. Period.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
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eh, the tech won't simply disappear
it may be facebook but the tech will still be awesome
there's enough momentum in the vr movement now for it to be hacked for any future vr platform worth a damn
support for opentrack and others will surely come day 1, and from that, support for everything
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