Why so much tinfoil hattery?

[Kevris]

Why is there so much fear, uncertainty and doubt?

Why does do so many people keep loudly proclaiming that one headset or the other is going to be the only option?

Why do people have unrealistic expectations for software to support hardware that isn't even out yet?

Is it the age we live in, or has it always been like this?

 

[Raptoyd]

Money jitters maybe, not sure.

 

[[VR] Mad Mike]

Money jitters maybe, not sure.

This.,... 530 quid on what may be a waste.
Sensible option is to wait till summer and not preorder but already missing my DK2.
My worry isn't that it isn't supported yet, it is that ever since 0.7 sdk dropped and vive support was added frontier have ignored the rift when talking vr

Hopefully it's baseless paranoia and 3 months from now it will be yesterday's fish and chips paper. Time will tell, but if cv1 is not supported come launch there will be a lot of I told you so towards all those saying stop worrying rift will defo be supported come launch

 

[Oheck]

Most were taken aback by the price of the Oculus, as many budget according to estimated range from earlier Palmer comments. That combined with the system spec requirements...

As far as proclaiming for one product or the other...that's human nature. People choose sides, tribes, clans, teams; some have narrow or broad views on things. Just how some of us are wired it seems.

 

[maxpare79]

ED and the Rift is an emotional subject...What sold me the Rift, and to my friends as well, is the experience of playing ED with it. Sure the tech demos on Oculus share are cool and all, but not more then that. What is selling VR is ED, and frankly once you played ED in VR, playing it on a screen plain sucks...so yeah, ED + Rift support is an emotional subject...

Now even if the VIVE is supported, which could be as cool as the Rift...people are scared of the price....so basically, yeah...that's what is creating all this.

 

[Karnath]

Also a lot is the fear of the unknown, like maxpare says once you have played ED with VR there really is no comparison

Yes the graphics are sublime, smooth with clean lines and it looks damn fine but I wouldn't want to swop my pix-elated, sometimes uncooperative DK2 for anything other than the chance of a better VR experience.

when HTC launches their Vive pre-orders and the final price is revealed if it's very close in-line with the CV1 price structure, us VR gamers may be able to relax a little giving us the option to switch teams.

However if the price point of the Vive comes in way above the CV1 as some people are speculating, putting the cost way out of some peoples budgets and leaving them with gamble on the CV1 and their hard earned £529 or sometimes even more depending on which country your from is even going to work with ED is certainly likely to cause worry.

My personal opinion is FD have said publicly there is no exclusive VR deals been made, they are actively working with Oculus and it doesn't even make good business sense to only support one VR product when you already have a Grade A VR title already released. Why wouldn't a company want to maximize it's opportunity to increase it's revenue if it was possible ?