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Cancelled preorders, permanent PR damage, several dozen projects have been canned & fear has replaced confidence in consumers & devs alike when talking anything

Cancelled preorders, permanent PR damage, several dozen projects have been canned & fear has replaced confidence in consumers & devs alike when talking anything Oculus now. Not the rule but it's prevalent. You downplaying the impact is just plain stupidity.

cookiecaper 12y ago
I mentioned canceled pre-orders and I don't think that was unanticipated. I don't know how many were canceled, but with Facebook's coffers backing Oculus VR now, I must say I don't think they're overly concerned. My understanding was that the DKs were being sold primarily to finance further development and prototyping (and in particular to provide proof to suppliers that sufficient volume would exist), which is now a non-issue since they now have essentially as much money as they want, and can order x million units to get bulk pricing regardless of consumer demand. The only major project that's been canceled was Minecraft, which Luckey privately pointed out was complete and utter vaporware anyway. I have a DK1 and I can tell you that most "Rift projects" were one-off tech demos that mostly weren't maintained, and no one will miss. If OVR continues to develop a good product, people will continue to develop for their platform, whether Facebook owns them or not. What PR damage, outside of the group that they expected would be unhappy? It's all over the head of people who didn't know what Oculus was before the acquisition. I don't think people who aren't part of the industry really care, because they don't know anything about it. To the extent that it was covered by mainstream outlets, it was because Facebook bought another company, not because they were outraged that the dream of Oculus VR was being destroyed by FB. Fear hasn't replaced confidence in all consumers and developers. Logical persons may have their opinions and predictions, but no one is justified in anything beyond "wait and see" until something actually happens. I'm not downplaying the impact of the ire of the gaming community. I just don't think there's been a noteworthy one other than the vast amount of fruitless rage that's filled tech forums recently. Perhaps we disagree, but I don't think my assertions are "plain stupidity".

cookiecaper 12y ago

I mentioned canceled pre-orders and I don't think that was unanticipated. I don't know how many were canceled, but with Facebook's coffers backing Oculus VR now, I must say I don't think they're overly concerned. My understanding was that the DKs were being sold primarily to finance further development and prototyping (and in particular to provide proof to suppliers that sufficient volume would exist), which is now a non-issue since they now have essentially as much money as they want, and can order x million units to get bulk pricing regardless of consumer demand. The only major project that's been canceled was Minecraft, which Luckey privately pointed out was complete and utter vaporware anyway. I have a DK1 and I can tell you that most "Rift projects" were one-off tech demos that mostly weren't maintained, and no one will miss. If OVR continues to develop a good product, people will continue to develop for their platform, whether Facebook owns them or not. What PR damage, outside of the group that they expected would be unhappy? It's all over the head of people who didn't know what Oculus was before the acquisition. I don't think people who aren't part of the industry really care, because they don't know anything about it. To the extent that it was covered by mainstream outlets, it was because Facebook bought another company, not because they were outraged that the dream of Oculus VR was being destroyed by FB. Fear hasn't replaced confidence in all consumers and developers. Logical persons may have their opinions and predictions, but no one is justified in anything beyond "wait and see" until something actually happens. I'm not downplaying the impact of the ire of the gaming community. I just don't think there's been a noteworthy one other than the vast amount of fruitless rage that's filled tech forums recently. Perhaps we disagree, but I don't think my assertions are "plain stupidity".