I just bought a Meta2 to use with PC SteamVR. The Steam VR hardware is 1K (plus the PC). Meta hardware is priced well and physically functional. Meta games selection is so limited as to not be worth consideration and Steam prices are vastly cheaper when bought with a bundle site. I own over a dozen VR titles for less than the cost of one Meta store game. For example, just bought Skyrim AND Fallout for $20 in a bundle somewhere. That would be $120.00 at Meta sore! We aren't all billionaires, Mr.Zuckerburg. Many of us get very savvy at going where the deals are. Bang for the buck.
Problem: Getting Meta to work with Steam is very obtuse. 1. turn on headset. 2. PC Meta app. 3. Airlink. 4. Steam app. 5. Good luck getting into Steam VR app or starting game. WAYYYYY too cumbersome.
Bottom line: Steam is a vastly superior games market that Meta has zero chance of catching up with. Make this work better, Meta. You will not get gamer market saturation while trying to beat steam. Not even close. If you can't beat them, join them.
I am so frustrated with the experience I have had with a Meta2 attempting to get to my games, that I will be returning the headset and waiting for a FUNCTIONAL low cost VR entry hardware that will play my ready and waiting Steam VR collection.
Good luck with that 1 billion people on Meta VR if you keep snubbing the very people you are trying to court.
i was about to buy zenith on steam, then i realized that i might be on my quest store so i can play with out pc, that what do u know there it is, at 29.99 USD, while on Steam right now its on sale at 5,99 a wapping 40% discount from its 9.99. on steam. I just would like to know why, is it cause the quest version is a portable version? Is more expensive? cause every metagame and app has to cost 29.99? is heartbreaking, but at least we got Steam always there for us broke cheapos
Are Skyrim and Fallout even available on the Oculus/Quest stores? Genuine question - I've just looked but can't find them.
Also, great thing is, if you buy it on Steam, you can play it on your Quest. You have a point about prices - Steam has been around a lot longer and has a lot more games but that problem has been solved.
I'd sell/return the Quest 2 and buy a Quest 3 if I were you. You seem like a serious gamer who doesn't mind spending a bit more money for a better experience.
The myth is steam has this large decent priced library is just that that a myth. It's loaded with hundreds of 9 dollar shovelware for every 1 half life alyx.
Quest 2/3 has a large percentage of quality titles.
- Steam has no native Quest games and there is no cross buy. If you only want PCVR, that's fine. But if you have a Quest and you'd like to take it away from the PC and still play a game, you can't if you buy from Steam.
- Some Steam versions of games may be using SteamVR, whereas all Rift titles on the Meta store must use the Oculus API. It depends on the game though, Steam games can use the Oculus API too if they choose to. The reason this is important is because SteamVR has no direct support for Meta headsets. Instead it redirects SteamVR calls to the Oculus API. This adds an extra step to all VR operations, with a performance hit.
I believe Arizona Sunshine 2 is like that, the Steam version is apparently only SteamVR. So the Meta store version may run slightly better when using a Rift or Quest. (I haven't tested, I bought it from the Meta store so I could get both Rift and Quest versions)
