I think many people are going to miss the sarcasm in the summary.

CCP Games is making Valkyrie for the Sony VR machine as well.

Valve makes alot money off the "gacha" style free to play mechanic. Where you spend money to get a random item. They also have a storefront "Steam" that want to protect. There is a difference in buying a 3rd party game where Steam gets a cut and licening tech out to competing stores.

Does anyone else hate the conditional operator. It replaces
if (a > b) {
max = a;
}
else {
max = b;
}
with
max = (a > b) ? a : b;

ohh I see the double negative. It was a grammer post. I don't read my post some times.

your missing a param in the invest() method.
while (!low_confidence()) { invest("Social network stuff"); }
vs
while (low_confidence()) { invest("other stuff"); }

I guess I was not clear. I think they have low confidence in facebook ads. So they are investing in other stuff. Like VR.

lol, It was purchased because Zuckerberg thought it was neat and he doesn't answer to anyone. The strategy comes later when his employees have to figure out what to do with it.

Sure but what Oculus was promising was always a corporate company that builds VR gear. A company that would sell things for profit. They were not promising open hardware, open source, private ownership, made in the USA, or free stuff. Most people assumed it would be purchased by Id Software when they heard Carmack was involved. Being purchased by big money is delivering on their promise.

I guess it depends on the reward. I checked and about 2000 people chose a coffee cup reward. They spent $10 to $75 on something that wasn't a Dev Kit. I suppose they might feel a little betrayed if they hate Facebook.

I wonder how much he made off the deal. I wonder how much ZeniMax Media Inc could of made if their heads were not up their asses.

I view it as Facebook not having low confidence in their core product. Their is no future with Facebook marketing so they investing outside the core product.

People who did the Kickstarter got their rewards. They got their dev kits. The kits worked. They arrived a little late. That is all that was ever promised. If I purchase something off EBay I don't get upset if the seller gets purchased by Facebook. Oculus isn't even a service. Its not like Facebook is buying users like they when they purchased Instagram.

Facebook purchased Instagram for 1B, Oculus for 2B, and WhatsApp for 19B. Mystery to me where those numbers come from.

worse: Comcast
better: Samsung, other lcd vendors, going public as its own stock
same: Apple, Sony, Valve, Microsoft, Disney