Oculus Rift has had its fair share of issues, and it doesn’t look like the sun is getting any brighter anytime soon for the company. Facebook, the company that owns Oculus outright could be positioning itself to perform a takeover.
Two 3DO games recently reissued by Limited Run Games, Plumbers Don't Wear Ties and D, appear to have a major problem, according to customers.
D was a great, atmospheric horror game. It was worth the rental back in the day. Also, Limited Run Games sucks.
LRG are just glorified overpriced reproductions.... and now they can't even get that last part right. I make better repros using my own stack of CD-R.
Just don’t. 3DO games were the worst. Imagine paying premium prices for a dog-crap version of a game. The era of barely trying or understanding their own tech and charging asinine prices… 3DN0. It’s best that you don’t admit that you had one of these.
While at WASD in London, TheGamer spoke with different indie developers about the current climate of the gaming industry.
Save the quarters and blast everything to oblivion at home!
When has it not been in trouble?
Well Oculus clearly has some issues. Facebook has to pay for stealing tech. They have a closed system which means they can only sell games to people that have Oculus. Other VR platforms are positioned better. PSVR has a much bigger market and has games that are mutli-VR platform. Even PSVR users using Trinus can buy some VR games on Steam. Vive obviously benefits by being linked with Steam.
Also there is much to legitimately fear regarding a 'takeover' of operations by Facebook. That doesn't sound good at all. If anything that would make Oculus worse off. It already has a stigma attached by being owned by Facebook, but if it was RUN by facebook, hard too see much that is positive with that.