08-11-2017 07:51 PM
08-14-2017 11:42 PM
...It's kind of like saying "well this rubber in your car engine is broken, but we don't sell stand alone parts. Your best bet would be to purchase an entire new car and sell the left over parts you don't use"...
08-15-2017 04:40 AM
08-15-2017 04:54 AM
08-16-2017 05:33 AM
08-16-2017 08:11 AM
08-16-2017 09:11 AM
08-16-2017 09:30 AM
Sharpfish said:
DISAGREE.
One of the MAJOR points in this sale is getting touch penetration/adoption up for developers. To offer a reduced price rift on its own would counter-act everything they are trying to achieve.
I 100% welcome the 'full bundle only' focus and deal, and it's how it should have been since day one.
If you want a 'cheap rift' as back up , buy the pack and sell the parts you don't like, at the summer sale price you are still getting a massive bargain.
It's vital that developers (such as with Lone Echo) can be confident that every rift owner has ACCESS to touch even if they think they don't need it yet (Using wheels or hotas .. even a gamepad), to have touch bundled and there is to give developers freedom to create what they need without jumping through hoops or dumbing down to the lowest common denominator.
Soon the ratio of touch equipped rifts to bare HMDs will be massively in the former's favour (as it should be - this is VR not HMD + gamepad world).
If we are talking spare parts, then yeah oculus should sell them where they can, or do an RMA (even out of warranty) 'trade in' for your damaged rift for a replacement with a lone HMD. This shouldn't be in retail though as it would poison the VR well (again) with too many rifts out there with inadequate controls for developers choices.
08-16-2017 09:40 AM
BeastyBaiter said:
The sensible solution is to simply offer commonly broken parts such as the cables, lenses, straps and pads. It won't cannibalize bundle sales since you can't make a fully functional rift out of those but it will allow someone to repair a damaged one. The only time you'd have to buy a whole new headset in that case is if one of the screens in it failed.
08-16-2017 09:40 AM
08-16-2017 09:53 PM
inovator said:
Bad example they would not sell u the part but u can send the console in and they would fix it.