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[UPDATED] "'Minecraft' creator cancels Oculus Rift version following Facebook acquisition"

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At least we won't be bombed with YouTube videos of little kids playing the oculus rift version

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Oculus Rift future :'(

 

 

Don't worry. I'm sure there will be some virtual currency or premium membership to remove ads. :unsure:

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After the purchase by Mr. Zuckerberg, Notch decided to cancel the Oculus VR version of minecraft and had this comment brought by Mr.Perrson himself

"We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out."

 

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http://www.gamespot.com/articles/minecraft-developer-notch-cancels-oculus-vr-version-of-game-after-facebook-acquisition/1100-6418541/

 

Honestly, from my point of view, I'm happy at all for what Zuckerberg did and but am very happy that Notch made this decision, I myself think Facebook is being creepy.

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"We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out."

 

Good. Notch is doing the right thing. SCREW FACEBOOK!

 

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I summon the all mighty GabeN to have mercy on us and to shower us with his glories. Oh lord, please in the name of everything that is good bring to us thee and make the foul Facebook tremble at the very sight of you. Shower us with a new and better miracle we call Virtual Reality. Bless us oh kind sir. Please my lord. Amen.

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And Razer CEO is weighing in on this...

 

 

Well, that is interesting I guess.

that is awesome.

 

FB needs to end! I mean seriously everyone what are you using FB for be honest? Dicking around and stalking girls that's it. But hey at least now you can do that in 3D!

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I haven't really been paying any attention to Sony's VR headset because I was just banking on Oculus, but I guess now I should read up lol. Abandon ship!

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well and to think i was about to start looking into DK2 nope not anymore wonder how carmack feels about this guess i now need a ps4 

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Arent we all pretty bored of Minecraft by now anyway? lol

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I think we should all BoyCott the Oculus rift now...

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http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/25/5547626/minecraft-oculus-vr-cancelled

 

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And there's the first negative affect from Facebook's acquisition of Oculus! I'd imagine that certain projects for the Rift are now being...considered. Definitely will be interesting keeping up with this whole fiasco. Oh how the mighty fall.

You DO have the Minecrift mod, though.

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Peoples opinions blow these things out of proportion, we barely even know the intricate details of the deal and what will be happening with the company. 

 

The best possible outcome is nothing will change within the company, it will still be ran by the same team. Also the big advantage is the inflow of funds from facebook, they no longer need to rely solely on people making the dev kit purchases.

 

Though, I do want to hear John Carmack's opinion, Markus and John have spoken on occasion and John definitely will have a big opinion on the deal and would have had some amount of influence over some details.

nothing good came come from facebook, mark my words xD 

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I wouldn't say its the first negative consequence. The fact that I haven't seen anyone happy about this is the first one.

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Prepare for oculus to have ads and track head movement and postisition and allow Facebook status updates, as well as interaction with farmville. Everything that could have been great about oculus is sorta just been fucked hard I was looking forward to it but I refuse to feed Facebook money when they're going to ruin this great device and the brand is something I will never invest in

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I don't know. If I owned a company and was offered $2 Billion Dollars for it, I'd probably say "Sure, why not?"

I mean really. Regardless of whether FB is here in 3 years or not (which, btw, I think them buying Oculus is to help prevent or lessen the impact of), whoever owned Oculus has $2,000,000,000. 

Who knows. Maybe Zuckerberg knows FB will die some day (soon) and is preparing to jump ship with his own startup companies and is diversifying. 

True. That would be best case scenario.

the problem i see with that is 3/4 of it is in facebook shares which arnt worth it ... so in truthfulness the brought it for half a billion which is still a big amount but not to buy out all the rights

 

also notch wrote a good blog about this

http://notch.net/2014/03/virtual-reality-is-going-to-change-the-world/

Its all about those volumetric clouds

 

 

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Yes! Yes!!! YES!!!!

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I think the priority of Facebook does not lie with gaming. I'm very disappointed if Facebook decides to ignore or neglect it the gaming part of the Rift.

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I'm glad he has done this... it kinda shows that his indie developer roots are still there ;)

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i'm crying.. i died a little inside.. come hither google show me more kittens to fill this wound facebook TY&*)#@!T*EP@WGVY^)!V CF^&EF@!~ VGCE^_*)R@!~BF+{(E*! i cannot express myself...

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