Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order

Re:Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order by Someone1234 on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @12:13PM (#10851757)

I don't think consumers will care who is really to blame, they'll only come away with a bad experience, word will spread, and demand will drop.

To use a food analogy: You sell pizza, it is the best pizza in town, but the delivery driver sucks and food is constantly arriving cold or smashed. Your patrons aren't going to care that you always blame the delivery driver for the problems, or that the pizza COULD be good if not ruined, they're going to either shop somewhere else or quit buying delivered pizza. Same thing here, regardless who ruined the thing, the experience is still the same.

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Re:Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order by moron4hire on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @12:21PM (#10851825)

Except in this shitty analogy, I hire the driver, so if the pizza is bad because of the driver, it is my fault. Oculus doesn't hire most of the VR game developers in the world.

I absolutely would not blame the restaurant if my GrubHub delivery guy ruined the order.

And regardless, what the mythical "average consumer" does or doesn't do is immaterial. You should know better.

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Re:Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order by DiabloD3 on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @01:03PM (#10852204)

Except in that shitty analogy, the way I understood it, Ocolus is the delivery guy. The Rift is not the product, its just the delivery mechanism: the games are the product.

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