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Notch says no more Minecraft for Oculus Rift following Facebook acquisition

article published on 26 March, 2014

Markus 'Notch' Persson, the developer behind Minecraft, has killed all plans for bringing the game to the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, following Facebook's $2 billion acquisition of the company. In his initial Tweet, which was a bit bold, Notch said: "We were in talks about maybe bringing a version of Minecraft to Oculus. I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me out." ... [ read the full article ]

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mightyzog
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_ 		27. March 2014 @ 06:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This guy is my new hero. I hate everything about Facebook and the zombies that it creates. Here's a tip idiots.... No one cares what you are having for dinner.... Or that you are cleaning your house... Or those 50,000 stupid pics and videos of your ugly kids.
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Mysttic
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_ 		27. March 2014 @ 08:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It should be noted however that Razer claims they are interested in setting up Notch's MC through VR and asked Notch to get in contact: hinting that perhaps they may be investing in their own hardware. Source: IGN. (Take it for the grain of salt it is though.)
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mightyzog
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_ 		27. March 2014 @ 08:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That would make sense considering he talked about other competitors on the VR scene.... Like sonys VR that they are developing.... Minecraft for the PS4 using VR would probably be pretty cool. F&$@ Facebook.
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xnonsuchx
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_ 		27. March 2014 @ 08:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Here's hoping the Facebook acquisition just drives nearly all devs away from it, focusing on other VR options if they are really interested.
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