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I know why they made this move since most of their team dreams of bringing Snow Crash to life and Facebook has everything they need to make a huge virtual social space like that a reality.

But I don't trust Facebook with my information and certainly wouldn't trust living in a virtual world of their creation. This also burnt any bridges they had with the community that had supported them up until this point.

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I would try and order Oculus Rift as soon as it'd come out but not anymore. Facebook is nothing but a greedy corporation. What makes this news even worse is that the founder of Oculus says Facebook are "champions of open hardware and software". There's no recovering from the pile of crap Oculus is in now.

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Found something about Zuckerberg. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg

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You may like VR or not, I think it will have a huge impact in the future (not only for gaming). So I was quite optimistic about support for Valves Steam Machines and Linux. Now that everyone is disappointed by this move and withdraw their support it may play into Sonys hands for their PS4 VR device which probably won't be available for Steam Machines.. So I hope that Valve continues to make their own device now

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Guess ill be rooting for valve and their VR kit, as for occulus it looks like they have stabbed the community in the face.

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razer responded to notch 'perhaps we can help out. Will be in touch.'
https://twitter.com/minliangtan/status/448606945272803328
so now there's going to be a VR-headset thats overhyped AND overpriced, were all doomed

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Quoting: WorMzyI don't get the excitement or need for VR in the first place.

Facebook taking over Oculus is no big loss as far as I'm concerned.

If you ever got a chance to try it, you'd understand. It's fundamentally a new experience. Really, really game-changing. I was same - very sceptical. Then I tried it and if I'd had $300 there and then, I'd have bought one. Simple as that. It's that amazing.

Or rather, it /will be/ that amazing, because there are still a few kinks to iron out.

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I don't get the excitement or need for VR in the first place.

Facebook taking over Oculus is no big loss as far as I'm concerned.

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Oculus Rift was one of the most awaited things ever for me, I love the idea of seeing my favourite universes and characters face to face, but now I don't know how it's gonna turn out. I hope FB is gonna prove me wrong, but I'm still sceptical.

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liam : You should all know my thoughts on VR by now, I don't like it and it is as simple as that. I don't want to strap some big ugly device to my face and block out anyone else in the room to play a game. I don't know anyone else if my own circle that want to either regardless of what platform they game on, they simply don't want to.


I couldn't agree more to this point. I don't wear headsets for same reasons.

As for everything else, I am confused with all the rage. Maybe because I one of the few who never joined the social media movement and so don't feel anything towards facebook other than it's an apparent waste of time. I do game, which is also a waste of time but it doesn't mess with lives or portray falsities as truths in the same way. Or maybe it's because I didn't back this product because I never wanted it. The game people backing out would actually make me made at them. If it's a privacy concern, have you met the U.S.? They probably have your laptop lens photographing you as you sit there. Use google, yahoo or microsoft products? It's sorta just redundant spying at that point. Anyhow please help me understand the rage part, I don't get.

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AAAAAAAH?!?!?!?!?!? WHY? How could Oculus sell themselves to such a (if i would type this word, someone would die!) company like Facebook!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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I had to check the date twice this morning, I thought we have April the 1st. Well, definitely no Occulus for me then :/
I hope Valve will bring a VR now.

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Just stop using facebook owned stuff like Whatsapp and Oculus. Competitors will find their way through.

SteamVR is the future now, at least we can count on our lord and savior GabeN!

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That's really nasty. I was sooo looking forward to that :/ Now I can only despise them :(

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This is incredibly damaging to Kickstarter. I suspect that most hardware based Kickstarter campaigns will now face a torrent of cynicism as a result of this. Kickstarters have a hard enough time gaining trust in the face of the Ouya shenanigans - I hope I'm wrong, but this could wreck everything.

As for Oculus itself... I was about to pre-order the crystal cove edition just last weekend. Glad I didn't, and I won't be touching it now. I suspect that continuing Oculus as an open platform died with this announcement.

Finally, what will Valve do? They've staked their colours to VR as the future of gaming. I guess they'll revive their own headset (assuming they buried it in the first place) and sell it as a Steam Machine peripheral. Hopefully it will remain open and cross platform.

What a mess.

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Quoting: RustyboltsLove Doom? No one ever mentions this linux fps freebie

Well freedoom isn't actually a game, it is a game-pack for an open-source engine, this post was for full games.

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Relevant link I saw tweeted yesterday: http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2013/02/27/our-incredible-journey.php

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Quoting: GuestI had to see the top comment on their blog, and then saw the irony of the comments being done via facebook.

Hah I know right.

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Let's wait and see what is happening next, this is not a bad new per se.

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Its up to GabeN and SteamVR to save us now :|.

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After my desaster with Entropy (2D Map!) i put some hope in this ;)
Still missing EvE, maybe the day will come and CCP makes a native Linux Version.
@PlayX TeamUP ;)

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http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/21dmkj/facebook_buys_oculus_riftsad_day_for_gamers/ I started a reddit page

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Interesting to see Double Fine Productions getting into the publishing business. Having more cool, small, indie publishers is probably a very good thing (as we're seeing with Devolver, Pheonix Online Studios, etc).

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Quoting: Dosilwhy can't we have starcraft and C & C style rts's people keep throwing out old board game style strategy games like it's innovative where are the RTS'S!

I like those too! I don't see why we can't have both. It's not a zero-sum scenario. In this case, this kind of game is what this team was able to build for us.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyLikewise, I for one am peeved about Divinity: Original Sin. The alpha does not work on Linux, and no peep from then when or how, only "later".

At this point, I'm not even sure anymore that the final game will have Linux support at launch.

I'll poke them, too McCoy. I have been lax in pushing my Kickstarters because of being busy with so many other things, but enough of us raising noise will certainly see a response. Thanks for this reminder that we're all in it together :)

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Quoting: OrkultusSorry for Off-Topic comment..but this is big news. This is going to mean alot to people. Like Minecraft is already dropping support for it. I wonder how many games will be doing the same.

Ha, yeah I started a thread that nobody say a few hours ago :P

http://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/520?page=1

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Maybe if enough people expressed their frustration with the 7d2d issue there would be more of a response. It just doesn't seem like there are enough people complaining and causing a firestorm.

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That's what I get for not logging into Steam for a few days. Honestly surprised I even got a response. It does look fun, from what I've seen. That's definitely getting it added to my wishlist.

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Sorry for Off-Topic comment..but this is big news. This is going to mean alot to people. Like Minecraft is already dropping support for it. I wonder how many games will be doing the same.

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Holy Fawk boys...and girls...facebook is buying Oculus Rift. WTF does facebook want oculus rift for? Now i see this being full of facebook adware. I was really hoping for a true awesome VR headset, but now i have no plans to buy one.

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