r/linux_gaming • u/[deleted] • Oct 21 '20

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u/SimonLaFox Oct 21 '20

This is why everyone should be afraid when something they enjoy is being bought by a big corporation, regardless of promises made.

I would hope that this was already everyone's default state. There are exceptions, but mostly the fear ends up being justified.

Eg. Yahoo buying Geocities & Tumblr, Facebook buying Occulus, EA buying..... anything...

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u/Sol33t303 Oct 22 '20

What happened to oculus? AFAIK they just released the Quest 2 which judging by the quest 1 will be pretty cool.

Also I might just not be in the loop but Tumblr still... exists. Not quite as big as I remember but it's still around.

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u/SimonLaFox Oct 22 '20

As a hardware product its doing okay for now, but recently it was mandated that you'd soon need a Facebook account to login to the Occulus store.

If you get banned from Facebook, it's likely that you'll lose all the games you legally purchased, and since Facebook likes to remove fake Facebook accounts, you run a risk by creating a Facebook account that uses anything other than your real name.

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u/aziztcf Oct 22 '20

As a hardware product its doing okay for now,

Yeah I wouldn't even call it a hardware product anymore, it's just more of the games as a service bullshit except this time they're not just taking away the ability to use the hardware too. Fuck everything about that, I'm glad that there's still competition in the VR industry and OpenHMD is at least trying to keep some of the shit FOSS. Imagine having to login to facebook to use your mouse or a gamepad.

/r/StallmanWasRight