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Overall this is great news. Well done!!
What — this is terrible news!! You obviously are not playing anything in Worlds. Kaiju Evolution has so many people playing it, that I, for the life of me, cannot understand how they cannot create a business model around it. Terrible, absolutely terrible news from Meta.
Meta was single-handedly the best and worst thing for consumer VR. They made it affordable for the masses, tried marketing it as a kid's toy, and then gave up. They never figured out how to run a successful game platform. I'm surprised they didn't partner with Microsoft to re-release Windows Phone OS and move Worlds to a Windows Phone thing.
On the plus side, there are certain KE players that invested their life into cheating to put 3 accounts on the top 10 leaderboard. I wonder how they will cope with the loss of their meaning for existence.
^ yes, still largely "marketed as a kid's toy" when it can be so much more than that! - I made the "Alexandria Bookstore for Intelligent conversation" as a kind of alternative to Soapstone and the rest, but they never promoted it or featured on the start page! so many users never even knew it existed.
