Urgent: Addressing Botting Activity in Horizon Worlds

I want to bring attention to an issue that’s becoming increasingly damaging to the integrity of Horizon Worlds. Some creators are using bots to inflate visits, player counts, and eligible hours.

This practice doesn’t just undermine the platform’s fairness, it also has real financial consequences. Because monthly bonus payouts come from a shared pool, botted worlds directly reduce the potential earnings for honest creators who are working hard to build authentic engagement.

Recently, some of the highest-ranking worlds have shown engagement patterns that appear inconsistent with normal player behavior. This suggests the issue isn’t isolated, it’s affecting top-performing games and distorting visibility across the platform.

Epic Games recently took legal action against creators on their platform for similar behavior, recognizing how botting harms the creator ecosystem. Meta should consider a similar stance. These artificial boosts distort performance metrics, discourage genuine creators, and risk damaging the credibility of Horizon’s creator program as a whole.

I urge the Meta Horizon team to investigate these activities and communicate what steps are being taken to detect and penalize fraudulent engagement. Transparency and enforcement here will protect the health of the creator economy and reward legitimate creators who bring real communities together.

Thank you to the Horizon team for continuing to support us. I truly believe this platform can thrive when fairness is upheld and creators are held to the same standards of integrity.