Who ever said those people aren't going to get the product? Why do you think the product will get swallowed up?
> "Oculus will continue operating independently within Facebook" --Mark Zuckerberg
> "Oculus will continue operating independently within Facebook" --Mark Zuckerberg
Nothing is ever going to change, until suddenly it all does.
Google actually does a better when they decide to keep the product (Android, Blogger, Google Docs...), but it's impossible to know whether they're buying the product or the team until they either integrate the product or shut it down.
No need to tinker. It's not like when you buy a startup that's bleeding money with 50 engineers that you could add to your existing products.
Facebook with games? HN's community and most people who would buy something solely for games would disagree. But who knows, maybe we'll see Facebook operate a successful diversification strategy by perfectly catering to both casuals and hardcore gamers. Unlikely but one can dream...
Yeah, corporate acquisitions are often not in substance what they are superficially described as...in technical terms, Disney "bought" Pixar, but they did so entirely with Disney stock, $7.4 billion dollars worth, and made Steve Jobs by far Disney's largest single shareholder, and, while Pixar remained a distinct entity within Disney, much of Disney's management was replaced with Pixar management (who retained their roles in Pixar, as well.)