Summer Sales Are In The Air: Deep Discounts On Oculus Rift, Gear VR Games

[kcarbotte]

Valve isn’t the only company with a summer sale. Oculus Home stores for Gear VR and Rift are offering significant discounts on content for the next two weeks. The company also launched several more titles on both of its platforms.

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[Jeff Fx]

I've already picked up a bunch of Vive games in the Steam sale, but was not aware of an Oculus sale. You've probably just sold me some Gear VR games.

 

[dstarr3]

I didn't realize Doom would've gotten such a discount so soon. A part of me wishes I'd have waited, but another, bigger part of me has had a hell of a lot more than $60 of fun in the past six weeks.

 

[kyle382]

Thats great, but tech demos should really be free.

 

[dark_lord69]

"Thats great, but tech demos should really be free."
I agree, too many aren't even games just a short "experience".

Thankfully the timing on this sale is perfect for me. My Rift is expected to arrive today! (however, it's a bit early as I wasn't expecting it for another month and I don't have my RX 480 yet)

 

[dstarr3]

Thats great, but tech demos should really be free.

We're in that stage of VR where games can get away with being rubbish just because they're VR and the VR experience is so new and exciting for everybody that everything VR is amazing. Once more people get into VR and once they get a bit more accustomed to the experience, people will start to take the blinders off and realize that some VR experiences can still be rubbish.

Another problem is the hype for VR is massive, so everyone is rushing to come up with something to make and market as quickly as possible. So we're getting flooded with barely-functional VR games that somebody made in three days just to jump on the bandwagon and make some hot cash.

But really, though, first-world problem much? lol It'll happen, this VR honeymoon we're in will end and we'll start seeing less rubbish VR games. Just gotta wait for this initial excitement to end.

 

[kyle382]

Thats great, but tech demos should really be free.

We're in that stage of VR where games can get away with being rubbish just because they're VR and the VR experience is so new and exciting for everybody that everything VR is amazing. Once more people get into VR and once they get a bit more accustomed to the experience, people will start to take the blinders off and realize that some VR experiences can still be rubbish.

Another problem is the hype for VR is massive, so everyone is rushing to come up with something to make and market as quickly as possible. So we're getting flooded with barely-functional VR games that somebody made in three days just to jump on the bandwagon and make some hot cash.

But really, though, first-world problem much? lol It'll happen, this VR honeymoon we're in will end and we'll start seeing less rubbish VR games. Just gotta wait for this initial excitement to end.

A great many of us are indeed waiting. PCgamer said it best. "The majority of us are still waiting for that $350 headset and no openVR is not quite there yet 😀 " Something like that anyways.