Oculus isn’t a platform, it’s a peripheral, and it should stop pretending to be something it’s not. I’m not planning on buying into VR until gen 2 hardware at the earliest but I’m already leaning towards Vive and stuff like this just makes me less interested in Oculus.

No one who only has one platform likes it a lot when content he/she’d like comes out only on another platform.

I would netflix binge the shit outta this show, but Hulu already got exclusivity rights for it.

Joking aside, Palmer is a slimy scumbag. Everything that’s happened with Oculus proves he cares more about money than VR.

Oculus is the new Konami.

Peripheral makers trying to fight each other like other platforms do.
They think they’re “platforms” as well. Cute.
Take the PC away and you’ve got a very expensive paperweight.

If I’m playing a game on PC, I don’t want software tied to specific hardware. I’d much rather choose a VR headset for the quality of it components then what exclusive games it has. It’s sad that they’ve basically turned VR into another form of console gaming. And it will be the death of VR if they don’t start taking…

I try to take an open stance on this kind of stuff. Oculus was the company that got me interested in home VR, I loved them for bringing VR into the moderm marketplace and wanted them badly to succeed. But since the facebook aquisition they have just been acting out worse and worse.

This post deserves more stars.

The quicker they can get production costs down the better. This Facebook VR App store crap is hurting the market.

What did you expect? Palmer Luckey is the name of a villain from a 90's or 2000's teen soap-drama like One Tree Hill or Dawson’s Creek.

Doesn’t matter who does it, “timed exclusive” or worse so “hardware exclusive” is a bullshit thing that console owners put up with. Pulling that kind of crap on the PC scene is a great way to piss off a lot of people.

Exactly.

Serious Sam is just one game out of many though. VR game Giant Cop was slated to be out for the Vive this summer, but just the night before E3 conference, Vive support disappeared from their Steam page and Oculus support showed up for the room scale game. Then after last nights blow up on reddit Vive support is back…

Oculus has a problem... twitter poll by a major tech youtuber.

No, just no. Exclusive is the wrong way to go here. We need to commoditize VR, not turn it into an Oculus vs Vive war. All that’s going to do is keep people away from the platform for longer - pretty much exactly what Oculus and HTC do not need.

I think it was more wishful thinking than anything, the initial reaction was “FUCK” then people calmed down and went “well, how bad can it be?” considering this was the ONLY WORKING VR peripheral in the public mind everyone gave it a pass, because it was the only one

The Rift has to be selling at a loss if they are so hell bent on having their store succeed this way.

I love how they try to go “it was only timed exclusivity” as if that makes it any less shitty.

Like I’ve always said, take anything Palmer Luckey says with a block of salt. Ever since Zuckerburg gave him a pot of gold, everything he says is pretty much straight up BS.