>Facebook's Oculus lost a case against game maker ZeniMax, leaving the tech company on the hook for $500 million.
>A jury ordered Facebook to pay $500 million in damages to ZeniMax due to theft of intellectual property on Wednesday.
>Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg told CNBC's Julia Boorstin that she was "disappointed in certain elements of the decision." Sandberg added she was "considering our options to appeal," and the verdict was "not material to our financials."
>ZeniMax sued Oculus for allegedly stealing its intellectual property. The company claimed Oculus founder Palmer Luckey "commercially exploited" Zenimax computer code and trade secrets in order to develop its products. It also said Oculus' VR device Oculus Rift was "primitive" until John Carmack, Oculus chief technology officer and founder of a company owned by ZeniMax, improved on the device using his knowledge from his previous work as a ZeniMax employee.
>willloseonappeal.jpg Its called being deeppocketed
Charles Rivera
Jump into an oven zenimax shills
David Hall
>Carmacks face annoys me He's a typical beta cuck with an asian wife and a kid that looks nothing like him.
Camden Hernandez
- Zenimax bought ID software for >$100m(1) on June 24, 2009. - Carmack signed up with Zenimax for an earn-out / golden-handcuffs agreement that ended in June of 2013. - Carmack was enthralled with VR. - Carmack found Palmer via an internet forum, reached out to get a rift to try. - Carmack tinkered with the Rift, adding sensors, building calibration, etc. while on the clock / using hardware from zenimax. - Carmack brought a prototype of the Rift working on Doom 3 to E3 with him providing Oculus with their early press. - Zenimax realized the extent to which Carmack was enabling Oculus and worked to negotiate equity with Brendan Iribe. - Oculus sent Zenimax a proposal to discuss a partnership Sept 21, 2012 but never followed up / followed through. - Carmack quit Zenimax the day his contract was up in June 2013, joined Oculus as CTO a few months later and took his 5 best guys with him. - FB bought Oculus March 2014, Zenmix got pissed and sued.
he's an idiot savant. he's a high-functioning autist who's only good at programming.
Joshua Davis
he's not even good. Doom was good for the time, but that was his peak. Just rehashes the same old shit over and over. Just look at that garbage that was Quake 4 / RAGE
Josiah Johnson
>"We're really getting kind of tired competing with our own publishers in terms of how our titles will be featured," Carmack said. "And we've really gotten more IPs than we've been able to take advantage of. And working with other companies hasn't been working out as spectacularly as it could. So the idea of actually becoming a publisher and merging Bethesda and ZeniMax on there [is ideal.] It would be hard to imagine a more complementary relationship. They are triple A, top-of-the-line in what they do in the RPGs. And they have no overlap with all the things we do in the FPSes."
Adam Morales
>Old habits I see he/Id stole before??? pls tell me moar!
Gavin White
Lets not forget that sword game
Adrian Adams
Carmack is just the engine nigger autist
gameplay mechanics and story are handled by other people I think
David Scott
Reminder that Donald Trumps brother is on the board of Zenimax, and Palmer shilled for Donald
Kayden Gonzalez
Nice clickbait title. The jury found that Carmack wasn't responsible guilty stealing VR tech.
Xavier Bennett
its all the same shit, quake 3-ish logic in 2017
Henry Phillips
Reminder that liberals will be shitter shattered for the next 8 years.
Nathaniel Ward
*wasn't guilty of
Julian Rogers
>Just look at that garbage that was Quake 4 / RAGE
If those games were bad it wasn't because he was a bad programmer, the games are technically good, if they were uninteresting that is another thing.
Everyone knows that the best id games were product of Carmack working together with Romero.
Juan Thompson
It seems as days go by Trump is only making the left more popular and omnipresent than they ever were. Now every normie is jumping on the 'resistance' and the internet is more obnoxious than before. It's almost like polarization benefits (((someone)))
Elijah Turner
Trump family are not kikes, they wouldn't fuck over carmack like that. Too many kike shills in this thread fear carmack and are trying to forum slide.
Michael Wright
>the jury was not material to our financials Does that just mean they weren't paid off?
Liam Ortiz
>mfw its true Damn $500 million. I didn't think that the case was this big. Backstabber-palmer btfo.
Jaxon Carter
Trump is a golden goy uber-Zionist whos butt buddies with Netanyahu and wants to go to war with Iran. Kikes play both sides and Sup Forums and chans in general have been fully subverted by controlled opposition
Carson Diaz
>that sword game oh yeah, what a piece of shit that was
Mason Ross
Gaming industry has become complacent and lacking passion. I have not touched any game after Diablo II. Played mobas for a while but realized quickly that they are pure cancer.
It just doesn't feel fun or exciting anymore. The focus is on eye candy and the next monster GPU to power the retarded poorly optimized games instead of gameplay, story and leaving a lasting impression.
Sebastian Roberts
>If those games were bad it wasn't because he was a bad programmer, the games are technically good, if they were uninteresting that is another thing. I got motion sickness so bad from RAGE I almost puked. It was the worst feeling ive gotten from a game in 25+ years of gaming. From the "sway" he programmed in. Fuck John Carmack.
Sebastian Young
John Carmack will be better than you ever could, CS monkey.
Brayden Baker
>Trump is only making the left more popular you dumb. democrats have lost more governorships, seats in congress and senate than ever in history. they're literally falling apart as not even moderate dems can take all this SJW bullshit anymore.
democratic party is dying right in front of our eyes and President is responsible for making that happen.
Alexander Watson
>Carmack is a thieving fuck Maybe now nerds can stop guzzling his semen.
Easton Green
All he can do is steal and wish he could be hired by NASA
Daniel Stewart
He's more talented than you, assblasted pajeet.
Logan Price
wtf is idubbz doing at oculus
Jayden Jenkins
>CS monkey thinks his shitty Java program will be recognized by anyone
Nathan Hill
The OP is a flat out lie though.
>Oculus CTO John Carmack, who previously worked for ZeniMax andwas accused of stealing code and destroying evidence, is not personally liable for any damages.
Angel Lopez
SJWs are just useful idiots. The main players are Israel, neocons and corporations. All things Trump lied about being against as evidenced by his cabinet..
I took a gamble by voting for him because of the tiny possibility he might be genuinely against both party establishments but I was proven wrong and reminded that voting was retarded to believe has any effect whatsoever
Jacob Lee
Palmer UnLuckey
Joseph Cook
JUST
Parker Ward
Zuck-Thiel-Trump-Luckey-zenimax
Zuck seems to be considering a run for president in 2020. Thiel draws right wingers to agree with the technocracy. Hope you enjoy the matrix goyim
Connect the dots. My tinfoil sense is tingling.
Brandon Peterson
FUCK
Jaxon Barnes
>mobas
You chose the worst possible thing to judge modern games.
There are other good games, you just need to know where to look, that doesn't mean that what you said isn't true to some extent.
Christian Fisher
VR is easy shit. Just a lens infront of a screen.
Oliver King
He's not a game designer mate. If those games were buggy pieces of shit like Bethesda games are you might've had a point.
Brody Wilson
>stock is still up $3 for the day
can zuckerburg ever be stopped?
Isaac Smith
>not a kike >daughter is literally married to one
Ayden Davis
kek
Colton Lewis
the lines blur, user. He's nothing special. Just look at quake 4 / rage - just generic fps, could be made by anybody
Elijah Allen
He's probably overrated but still decent.
Jeremiah Johnson
He stole Apple computers from a school as a kid
Angel Cruz
The MSM is playing up Bannon as the master behind Trump because he's a stereotypical drunk Irishman who represents the ultimate whitey strawman to push the 'Trump is a nazi' idea to both leftists as a negative and white nationalists as a positive.
Meanwhile the real men behind the scenes are Miller and Kushner
I wish i could discuss this shit on Sup Forums but it's a hugbox likely shilled by Kushnerbux
Elijah Johnson
He's a more talented thief for sure. I'm kind of jealous.
Christian Cooper
He admitted to pirating Ultima games. So he's basically satan.
Colton Perry
Any day that Facebook loses money is a good day.
Lincoln Gonzalez
We all did stupid things as a kid. Man, there are so many jealous talentless faggots on Sup Forums just waiting to tear someone better and more talented down.
Isaiah Perez
depending on how big vr gets, 500 million is chump change 2bh. fucking dishonest piece of shit
Cooper Morgan
>He stole Apple computers from a school as a kid Damn. He actually admitted to theft? What a retard.
Mason King
>Piracy is stealing Okay shlomo
Gavin Edwards
He was caught
Thomas Brown
And punished and he stopped it as he got more into programming.
Gavin Johnson
>stupid things He created an explosive paste to bypass the window security and the only reason he got caught was because his obese friend opened the window and set it off. He was sent to get help and the adult described him as a "brain on legs" He also was kicked out of a casino if I remember He's literally a super autist
Gabriel Cruz
>As reported in David Kushner's Masters of Doom, when Carmack was 14, he broke into a school to help a group of kids steal Apple II computers. To gain entry to the building, Carmack concocted a sticky substance of thermite mixed with Vaseline that melted through the windows. However, an overweight accomplice struggled to get through the hole, and opened the window, setting off a silent alarm and alerting police. John was arrested, and sent for psychiatric evaluation (the report mentions 'no empathy for other human beings' and describes Carmack as 'a brain on legs'). Carmack was then sentenced to a year in a juvenile home.
>the report mentions 'no empathy for other human beings' and describes Carmack as 'a brain on legs'
Luke Cooper
Well, clearly he never stopped, seeing as he got Facebook into this mess.
Jaxon Harris
>he stopped it
Jacob Watson
So carmack clearly isn't a saint, he doesn't deserve to be nailed to the cross like this.
Kevin Price
>'no empathy for other human beings'
>tfw too intelligent to empathy
Daniel Perez
What a madman
Connor Richardson
That's fucking awesome, not a thing to look down on him for.
Caleb Perez
Holy shit... you know what they say: once a thief, always a thief.
I guess the guy has extremely low morals. So sad.
Kevin Thomas
Jesus was crucified alongside two thieves senpai.
Adrian Evans
Also I forgot his very strange verbal tic and the fact he sent his beloved cat to the pound because it pissed on his couch once. The text said something about him removing any distractions from life no matter what it was
Levi Stewart
>he's literally a super autist but he works in worthless shit like FPS instead of NASA
Luke Johnson
>>the report mentions 'no empathy for other human beings' and describes Carmack as 'a brain on legs' FFFFFUUUUUUCKKKK. he's actually a psychopath.
Camden Cruz
Some of the undisputed biggest autists on Earth dedicate their time solely to shitposting on Lainchan. Autism doesn't imply a benefit to humanity.
Jack Mitchell
I guess he hates change
Jack Roberts
he works on things that interest him, exclusively.
how many people can say that?
Ryder Gutierrez
Man, from the description in OP it sounded as if Zenimax had the audacity to claim that they owned Carmacks future products from his experience working for them, but this shows they they essentially flat out paid him to work on the rift until the day he quit.
Matthew Foster
Old habits die hard you know...
Lucas Thompson
He has a private space company you communist
John Jones
>autist works on things that he cares about instead of important things
Yea man the logic totally doesn't check out at all.
