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Oculus’ Jason Rubin Responds to HTC Criticism

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Jason Rubin, the vice president of content for Oculus, has responded to criticism that Oculus has blocked developers from other platforms and stifled the market with its exclusivity deals.

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The critical remarks came from vice president of global VR content at HTC, Joel Breton. In an interview with Gamespot, Breton said: “I just feel that they’re essentially hampering developers’ ability to create large communities by blocking them out from other platforms.”

Rubin responded to this on Twitter saying, “Is Oculus “over-investing in VR, spoiling developers, allowing them to make titles that otherwise wouldn’t exist?” Uh… guilty as charged.”

Oculus’ approach has been a divisive one within the VR community; it isn’t just Breton that holds this critical view. Rubin does raise a valuable point though: without the financial support of Oculus, many of these games simply wouldn’t exist.

It’s a point that some people rallied to defend as well: creative director at Fierce Kaiju, Paul Kolls, said on Twitter, “Because of such support our studio exists, simply wouldn’t be here doing what we love without it. Always grateful.”

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