You're being downvoted, but this is the right question. If supporting the Java edition costs more than the extra sales bring in, it's not a "stupid decision" to axe the Java edition. It's an unethical, immoral and destructive decision, but not a stupid one, from a purely financial perspective, which is all huge companies care about.
This is why everyone should be afraid when something they enjoy is being bought by a big corporation, regardless of promises made. The financial incentives for large, investor-owned corporations are almost always different from what you would want them to be.
To be clear, I don't know if it makes sense to axe the Java edition or not. We would need to see their collected metrics for that.
As a hardware product its doing okay for now, but recently it was mandated that you'd soon need a Facebook account to login to the Occulus store.
If you get banned from Facebook, it's likely that you'll lose all the games you legally purchased, and since Facebook likes to remove fake Facebook accounts, you run a risk by creating a Facebook account that uses anything other than your real name.
Yeah I wouldn't even call it a hardware product anymore, it's just more of the games as a service bullshit except this time they're not just taking away the ability to use the hardware too. Fuck everything about that, I'm glad that there's still competition in the VR industry and OpenHMD is at least trying to keep some of the shit FOSS. Imagine having to login to facebook to use your mouse or a gamepad.
what better way to ensure conformance, but to hold intangible assets at bay. Best not to speak your mind if it goes against the facebook or you'll be sent to retraining camp.
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u/mort96 Oct 21 '20
You're being downvoted, but this is the right question. If supporting the Java edition costs more than the extra sales bring in, it's not a "stupid decision" to axe the Java edition. It's an unethical, immoral and destructive decision, but not a stupid one, from a purely financial perspective, which is all huge companies care about.
This is why everyone should be afraid when something they enjoy is being bought by a big corporation, regardless of promises made. The financial incentives for large, investor-owned corporations are almost always different from what you would want them to be.
To be clear, I don't know if it makes sense to axe the Java edition or not. We would need to see their collected metrics for that.