Palmer Luckey, co-founder of Oculus, has been known to show up on Reddit to respond to fans since the virtual reality's Kickstarter first showed up two years ago. Yesterday, he took to Reddit again to reply to many angry fans about their concerns.
The internet was up in arms immediately after it was announced that Facebook bought the virtual reality startup yesterday. Though his post on Reddit closely resembles the official Oculus statement, the Oculus co-founder's follow-up interactions responding to Reddit's questions do shed light on some of the bigger concerns people have been voicing.
On targeting Facebook's market and losing control of Oculus:
On the timing of the announcement:
On Facebook integration:
On indie developers:
On where $2 billion gets spent:
On bringing balance to the force:
And finally, there was no reply to this post:
Top image by Charles Dharapak, Associated Press, altered by Kotaku