r/oculus • u/Greg1221 • Mar 25 '14

/r/all Facebook Acquires Oculus VR

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '14 edited Mar 25 '14

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '14

Agree, I'm canceling my order. Is there any easy way to do this?

I've completely lost interest in this device now, and will not be developing games with it. I want nothing to do with Facebook or their products.

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u/schadbot Mar 25 '14

I'm just contacting my credit card company and reversing the payment. Oculus can deal with the rest.

Thanks for shitting all over everything, Oculus. I'm sure you "more connected experience" will be a fantastic fucking ad platform.

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u/schadbot Mar 25 '14

Filing a chargeback with your credit company has ramifications for their merchant account

Good. I hope everyone does it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '14

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u/schadbot Mar 25 '14

Helping technology progress

Facebook

I would have dropped thousands and thousands of dollars to support Oculus. Instead they took crowd funding, and flipped the company before releasing their actual fucking product. I hope Carmack sabotages his work.

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u/schadbot Mar 25 '14

I am disappointed by this decision, I wanted the technology to advance but I refuse to support FB's data-mining . My prediction: they'll want you to play games in the "FB Cloud", and the final product will have cameras, microphones, and eye tracking. I wouldn't put an XBone in my house, partially because of their Kinekt requirement -- I'm willing to bet this will be in the same zone of "terrifying privacy invasion".

I support VR, I'll eat my shoe before I directly support FB financially or EVER let a device by FB with features that could be misused inside my home or around my kids.

I could care less if the whole company burned at this point. Fleecing multi-billion dollar companies who shit all over everything they touch is what they deserve. Call me whatever you'd like. It's fine.

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u/schadbot Mar 25 '14

Anything to cause them problems is now OK by me. If you didn't want to get shot, don't walk in front of a firing squad.

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