![]() You can buy Rift content on other platforms as well, without using Home. I'm sure this has never once stopped you from buying a game. Every game Valve has ever made can be purchased only by downloading Steam. You know full well that the overwhelming majority of Vive content is Steam-exclusive, whether it's theoretically possible to make content for the API without it. With Oculus you have to enable "unknown sources" to get that privilege. You can buy/download a game outside of Steam and play it with no issues. OpenVR games don't require Steam to play. Yes, there was a brief period where Oculus tried to block ReVive, and that was a bad, shitty decision, but they've completely reversed their policy on that, and have even started playtesting first-party games on Vive. I KNOW you know you can play Home on a Vive because this whole thread is talking about that. Sure, everything is free in a mobile app store, but does anyone actually want whats in there? They're trying to mold PC game distribution into the shit dumpsters that are mobile app stores. Once VR is actually profitable, the entire business model changes, and obviously Oculus will as well.ĭo you work for Facebook, or are you psychic? Or are you just another Facebook apologist/troll? Because there's no way to know what they're going to do in the future, and even worse there's zero reason to believe that they're not going to do what's in their best interests by fucking over consumers and developers.įacebook's business is in "creating platforms", collecting data on people, and selling that to advertisers. All they're trying to do is build a hardware base early on by offering premium content. ![]() This idea that Oculus intends to own and control the future of VR is so stupid. Facebook has zero justification to do what they're doing. At least Apple and Playstation have the excuse of a real technical incompatibility you can't simply pop a PS4 CD into your computer and play it. If that's not a clear-cut example of "walled garden" then I truly don't what that word means. Home only officially supports Rift, but we all know it works on Vive and they're even testing their first party games on Vive hardware now, so what's the big fucking deal? I also think you're misunderstanding the term "walled garden." A walled garden is like PlayStation or Apple where you're locked in. My issue, and anyone with a sliver of critical thinking ability's issue, is with Facebook's business model.ĮDIT: Since you edited your post I'll edit mine to address what you added Whose to say in a few years that Facebook won't start their own game studios, and then instantly demote all other developers into second-class citizens on the one and only store where Oculus games are sold? That's bad for consumers, bad for developers, and bad for the industry. Facebook's business model literally revolves around taking choice away from the consumer and forcing them to buy Facebook hardware to play Facebook games that they bought on Facebook's store. Valve's business model does not revolve around hardware exclusivity, whereas Facebook's does.Look at all the other games being sold outside of Steam made by other developers. The Lab is on Steam because it was made by Valve. ![]() (I wonder what would happen if they decided to prevent that in the future?)
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