Beat Saber dev Beat Games acquired by Facebook
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ign.comPosted Nov 26, 2019, 9:48 PM UTC
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ign.comYou’ve Been Zucked.....all your base are belong to us
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Brilliant. How have people never assoociated "Zuck" with Fuck wording? It opens the door for so many memes !!
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Zuck you 😂
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Zuck my balls
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.....i would never
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As much as I would hate beat saber becoming exclusive to one platform, maybe Facebook can use some of its money and connections to finally expand the music selection. This game has such broad potential but it’s maddening how it has pigeon holed itself into such a musical niche. I would love to see a huge selection of possible music, like Rock Band or Guitar Hero had.
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Whatever they do, I hope it comes in packs, not as individual songs polluting the psvr section
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I agree to a point. I loved being able to buy a single song that I enjoyed for rock band, and not a whole pack with other things that I wanted less. But the single songs weighing down the store was atrocious, they need to put them in their own section and not in a broader category.
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This makes me so sad. I boycott anything Facebook and I LOVE this game. I’ll continue to play it since I already own it but I’ll not give them another cent for any DLC or future games they publish.
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Same here. This is sad.
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Hey game devs out there, want to get rich? We need a beat saber clone/alternative.
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Rhythm sword
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Tempo scimitar
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Sonic scythe
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Audica is great. Obviously guns rather than swords but it fills the same niche for me. Made by Harmonix and they know rhythm games.
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I think BoxVR is very good, you bunch instead of using swords, if they updated the game a bit to have a more casual mode instead of just being a complete exercise game it could become pretty popular.
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Sony need to get on this and make their own first party beat game and partner with Sony music for a huge library of big hit songs. Sony have the resources to make the best rhythm game out there, earlier in the year there was some presentation where Sony divisions working closer together was a focus for Playstation and something like this would be the perfect opportunity for that.
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There are a few already, don't seem to be doing as well though
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I’m sure it’ll come soon. I remember when Audioshield was the big thing in VR.
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wow, you're so bright. Like there aren't dozens of them already, from the irrelevant shovelware clones to big like Audica
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Fuck my life. Now I can't buy any more expansions. This seriously sucks donkey balls.
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Yeah, it's the same for me. :(
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Why can't you buy more expansions? Are they stopping the production?
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Naw, it's personal. I made a decision to dump facebook like five years ago - it's actually a big part of why I have a PSVR instead of an oculus rift. I don't like how they handle data, so I make a point of avoiding them alongside Nestle and the like.
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Same, I’m not giving money to Facebook. This sucks.
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I despise facebook too, but maybe expansion aren't going to suck as much ass anymore
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Wow, was not expecting this, although after Sony purchased Insomniac it makes sense. They claim they aren't finished acquiring studios either so more and more games will be becoming Oculus exclusives, unfortunately, and no doubt Sony will be making some more acquisitions as well. On the bright side, moves like this are a sign that VR is about to start moving into it's next phase of growth.
It'll be interesting to see how this effects mods, as they also said that "mods that are illicit or engage in piracy will not be tolerated."
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Was totally not expecting this... What a shame, Facebook is just a bad company at this moment to be associated with, but I guess money isn't a problem from now on.
Really wish they stayed independent, I mean they were adored on the vr community for what they have been doing, and the game was selling on every platform, this is just fucked up for the fans, they were better off alone than with Facebook.
Hope I'm wrong
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This just means a clone will come along now if it goes exclusive to Oculus
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When a big company like Facebook buys you everything changes
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Doesn't have to go exclusive. My wife will not be spending another dime on music packs for this game. FB is not getting my money.
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I doubt Sony will acquire any VR devs but they really should if they wanna maintain the quality. If something like First Contact was purchased by Oculus that would really suck.
Sony seems to purchase devs after they have had a lengthy relationship with them but this might needs to change with the new management especially with Microsoft buying up devs on every corner and now Facebook probably only just beginning with it. Perhaps the devision that Shu is running could deal with purchasing and running smaller VR devs.
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I could see Sony acquiring Ready at Dawn. They've also made a few games for Oculus but most of their games have been for Sony (Daxter, the PSP God of War games, The Order).
It's probably only a matter of time before Amazon, Apple and Google start buying up devs as well, they've all got their own gaming initiatives to varying extents. :(
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I fear we are heading into a dark time for gaming, I feel next gen is really gonna up exclusives a lot,
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No real big dev is making Vr games on their own anyway.
It’s always just the Plattform heads (Sony, oculus, now valve) making or funding really big games.
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Well fuck. And here I was hoping that Sony would buy them and give them access to their music library for the second game...
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I wonder how much the purchase was, I imagine most VR devs wouldn't be that much to pick up. I assume Beatsaber dev was/is the most expensive out of all of them as beatsaber is probably the biggest VR game out there in terms of popularity so I can see this purchase being in the double digits of millions.
Still though not a huge loss really, if future titles from the dev become exclusive another will just pop up in its place to take the empty spot on PS.
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I think Beat Saber is the only juatVR exclusive title to sell more than a million copies and that was back in March, so they could be close to 2 million at this point with continued sales and the release of the Quest. It definitely had to be in the tens of millions, possibly closer to 100 million.
It's certainly a gamble for Facebook, Beat Saber could be a bigger and bigger hit as VR grows but it's also very possible somebody else could come along with something similar that ends up being bigger. Like I said, if nothing else, when the money starts flying around like this it's a good sign for VR overall even if I wish it wasn't Facebook's money in this case.
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The IP is definitely worth more than the dev, I think the obvious main appeal of the game is you have light sabers. I don't know if another game and really directly copy the whole saber thing or not.
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Boooooo
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Yikes. Wonder what this means for beat saber on psvr vs oculus. Getting an Oculus for Christmas so I guess it's not a big deal
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They claim all future content will be coming to all platforms at the same time, but I'm sure that's only true for this particular game. It's possible, but unlikely, that Beat Saber 2 will come to anything aside from Oculus. PSVR would get stung the worst there as there are always ways around exclusivity on PC, but not on console.
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My immediate thought was Beat Saber will be wrapped up within a year and an exclusive sequel is on the cards. While that may happen, it's also a possibility that facebook will use their purchasing power to open up the song library and earn revenue from all platforms - including PSVR which is the biggest platform. Who knows, maybe both. Despite what Oculus or Beat Games say - they'll want to limit mods so they can capitalise on the song licenses - so a much bigger library would suit all platforms.
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Get an Index, Oculus is shit.
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Well that sucks.
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RIP
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Biggest failure ever!
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Press F to Pay Respects
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Time to uninstall before the inevitable spyware shows up.
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Awwwww
Shit
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RIP
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Well, I've spent my last dollar on Beat Saber!
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Hey guess I’m done with Beat Saber
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RIP
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Honestly, this is terrible news. Facebook is not a good company.
Yeah, this gives me a decent amount of concern. Hopefully they still support plenty of music packs for us.
Neither is Sony. 🤣
So the Quest is a bad HMD by that logic. Hmm.
Buying it supports a horrible company, yes
I’ve completely lost all faith in the PSVR Community at large. Bad is a relative term. Do you really believe everyone is out to get you? In a lot of ways I would compare Zuckerbro to Sean Murray and Hello games. Sean was not out to get the consumers when NMS released in a broken state in 2016. They simply ran out of time and funding from Sony and were on a deadline. Look what it is today! Tomorrow NMS will receive its 8th major update. Oculus and Zuckerbro genuinely love VR and want to see it grow. In their minds VR is VR, no matter which HMD you own it’s still full VR. Many in the oculus leadership have said that they want to bring Oculus exclusive games to the PSVR. People are not always out to get you! Have a little faith!
Edit: *Zuckerberg bad auto correct!
Of course a defender of zuck defends another person who blatantly lied to people to sell a product lacking many of the advertised features.
You obviously aren't worth talking to, especially after
"Do you really believe everyone is out to get you?"
Everyone? Nah.
But incredibly wealthy people using their power and influence to shape politics and the world to ensure they hold on to their power? Yes.
Especially when said person mocked the people who first used Facebook and called them dumb fucks
He was talking about you
The fact that you think people are saying Facebook is bad because of exclusives and not because of their business practices and secret meetings with Trump and election influences says so much about you. Step away from gaming for a bit and realize there are other things happening in the world
Yes it is? Quest is only a good headset to people who have never tried other headsets.
I don't think ive touched my PSVR since the Quest came out. Way more convenient and significantly better tracking.
They doing really well for VR. The only company, which makes big games for VR.
Astro Bot, Blood and Truth, Farpoint, Wipeout are all fully fleshed games with AAA production values. And ports of big games like Skyrim, Borderlands and NMS are all due to Sony and all of these were here before Oculus brought Asgard's Wrath, Stormland and the upcoming Medal of Honor.
go cry harder in your Oculus quest minigameland
I was going to agree with you until you said the last sentence. I'll never get why people need to bash other systems to make their opinion seem valid.
I have both PSVR and Quest, and honestly the Quest is far from "minigameland" especially now with Quest Link.
I love PSVR too, but Quest just got Link, so it is going to be able to play anything except PSVR. A ton of amazing games on Steam . Definitely not all mini games.
You lost me right at the end, why make a good point but then be a needless dick for no good reason? The Quest is absolutely fantastic.
If it wasn't made by Facebook it might be. I can't believe people let it in their house.
I'm gonna be honest, pcvr systems most of the time are just better. This will almost always be true. And this is coming from a psvr owner.
Wipeout is a port of a flat games
Farpoint is made by 17 people.
None of those games are really aaa games honestly. AA seems fair.
Unfortunaly Sony didn’t had a real big aaa game ready around psvr launch. I mean a made for Vr game. Something from naughty dog for example. Would have given Vr a very different reputation
17 people? That's impressive.
And btw, I often forget Wipeout is not native VR. Because it's a cockpit game and there's not much a native VR title would make any difference in those confines - in fact, the team implemented an excellent cockpit view that was absent from the flatgame
I guess you missed the whole Half Life announcement lmao.
Agreed without Facebook VR would REALLY been like 3d TVs (downvote me but it’s still true)
Lol what? Those are certainly... words.
You know Oculus existed before Facebook bought them?
The majority of games for VR are on Steam. Oculus is trash. If it never existed VR would be the same. No wait, it would be better. There would be no exclusives for VR.