I remember reading somewhere (I think it was on The Escapist) that Oculus had fulfilled all of their Kickstarted obligations and so those people had no real leg to stand on. I wonder if they would have even otherwise.
Not that I blame them either. I didn't follow the Oculus project that closely, even though I thought it looked interesting, and I'm not familiar with Kickstarter at all. On one hand I think it's great that fans are able to fund projects that they would like, things that otherwise maybe would never get made. So it kinda feels like you are an investor in a budding venture, but you have none of the benefits; You get absolutely no say in things and, if the venture hits it big (like in this case) you get none of the windfall. I wonder how this whole thing would have turned out, if Oculus had to distribute the buyout to all the people who had put money in, proportional to their contribution...
All I know is that I would be pretty disappointed if I had put money into a venture that was then handed off to some megacorporation. For me, what it all boils down to, as I said in the OP, I'm not big on the idea on giving money to Facebook.
I also read another interesting thing (on Reddit of all places!); It was pure speculation, but it spoke to the cynic in me. This acquisition could be used for future legal/patent trolling in order to keep other upstarts out of the VR market. Even if the technology was completely different and Facebook had no leg to stand on, they have an endless supply of cash and a legal team that would make the cost of litigation prohibitive to a small upstart...
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