SpicyRichter

My biggest problem is the buyout announcement:

"Mobile is the platform of today, and now we're also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow,"

"Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play and communicate."

"We are excited to work with Mark and the Facebook team to deliver the very best virtual reality platform in the world,"

"We believe virtual reality will be heavily defined by social experiences that connect people in magical, new ways. It is a transformative and disruptive technology, that enables the world to experience the impossible, and it's only just the beginning."

Fuck that. Listen, I don't know about you all, but I play video games to get away from people. I deal with people all god damn day. I probably spend 90% of my waking hours communicating.

I play games for a break from all that. I don't play multiplayer games for a reason. My hope was Oculus could take me even further away, immerse me even more. The last thing I want is to do is be sitting in a virtual living room with my 9 million facebook acquaintances.

The last thing I fucking want is 14 year olds calling me a faggot right in my eyes!

Really, I couldn't give a crap that they got bought... but by facebook? Christ. Yeah they know a lot about the core.

So should I cancel my dev kit 2 order?

Wow man, amazing!

This guy needs to sit in on an undergrad level Economics class so he can understand some concepts like price and demand elasticity.

Each and every consumer has a 'strike point' depending on their perceived value of product and ability to pay. In order for a company to maximize revenue and profits, they'd ideally sell to every consumer at their 'strike point', especially with thinks like software where the marginal cost of an item is basically zero (ie. it basically costs nothing to sell one more copy, the raw materials price of producing an additional unit over and above your fixed costs)

This is what sales address: the full price of $60 address those with very low price sensitivity, and the sales address those with higher and higher price sensitivities, until we've sold to every potential customer at their strike price.

To put this into context, some games I have low sensitivity: I love bioshock so I buy it day one at $60 with the $20 season pass. Tomb raider? My strike price was $20. Other games I won't buy until they're far cheaper.

Every customer is different, and to maximize revenues you need to address each ones elasticity. Trying to fight this is futile, especially if your goal is to reach as many people as possible. Saying people didn't like your game because they didnt give it a chance is super pretentious - some people will just not like certain things, but at least they gave it a chance. Without that sale they probably wouldn't have at all.

Yeah- I really, really want a PC version

If people already own monitors, keyboards, controllers and all that jazz, you can get a PC that'll play these games for the price of a X1... people realize this right?

Only good things can come from this I believe!

I don't often cry, but goddamn if this didn't do it

God I'd love this.

I want them to call me. Please

Stand up and yell 'McDonalds' to skip the ad!

Oh wait, that was a Sony patent...