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Most consumers don't care. Mom buying a Quest for her son won't care. Neither will majority of younger players. This is a case of small but loud group of people
by saberdancer 6y ago
Most consumers don't care. Mom buying a Quest for her son won't care. Neither will majority of younger players. This is a case of small but loud group of people standing up against it.
- modo_mario 6y agoMost don't but this endlessly being brought up in every comment section outside of supportive communities and then even there sometimes must hurt to some extent. That's a whole lot of people doing anti-marketing screaming "don't buy!" for years to come. Maybe it will not be enough to offset their gains and change course or see it as a mistake. But enough for it to matter still? Probably. Hell they might even spend time and money trying to salvage reputation even if they got gains hurting it in the same way that microsoft tries to paint itself as an ally of open source.
- saberdancer 6y agoVR is a investment for the future for Facebook. It's likely that they are operating with losses at the moment, price point where they are offering Quest 2 is much lower than most other VR headsets. I am sure that the criticism is not helping at this moment, but it's unlikely that it will affect their bottom line in 5 or 10 years time.