Companies like meta and Amazon can’t be trusted with gaming, it’s just a silly side project to them. If I was working at a studio acquired by either I would be shit scared for the studios longevity.
Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts
Submitted 4 days ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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maxie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 days ago
I remember when Amazon went all-in on gaming. Everyone was skeptical, and they partnered up with so many Asian companies.
Then they pulled out. Then they pulled back in. And now they’re kinda in a weird place.
sukhmel@programming.dev 2 days ago
What did they make?
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 days ago
Microsoft too.
They flip flop over if gaming is important to them all the time.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Yeah time to start saving as much as you can if they buy you, if you weren’t already doing so.
Then you’ll at least have something for when the inevitable comes.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Well they gave it their best shot. It was literally impossible for them to have produced a more compelling product. That would have required skill and talent
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
All 3 users will be angry
titanicx@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Actually one of them was supernatural. And that is a massive community there is some massive blowback going with regards to that. My significant other being one of those people so I’ve heard a lot about it over the last 24 hours seeing all the posts seen post from all the coaches that were involved that have gotten laid off and just one of the communities on Facebook is somewhere in the neighborhood of 170,000 people.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Yeah but on the plus side, Zuckerberg will have less underage girls to groom
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 days ago
I’m actually kinda angry. There was a lot of money being thrown at this metaverse thing, and I wanted to milk that sweet Facebook money for as long as I can.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I mean there’s always be vrchat, Which is basically what meta was trained to do but actually works.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 days ago
You’d think they would lose a lot of money making all those shit investments, but then America is the upside down and nothing makes sense over there.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s a bug in our simulation. If you’re poor and you lose a little money, you go bankrupt. But if you’re rich and you burn a fuckton of money, you can buffer overflow into richness and go back on top.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Nothing of value was lost
MurrayL@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Fuck off, sincerely. It’s hard enough out there for game devs as it is without heartless idiots online celebrating the demise of their studios.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
The metaverse was always going to be a flop.
I get why devs jumped in, for that sweet Facebook cash injection.
But, gotta be realists here. It was always going to fail, and it was easy free money until that point.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ll celebrate every aspect of the scam that is Metaverse and the oculus rift dying off.
Like any other studio bought by a big corporation this is the inevitable outcome and I wish the best for the employees that had no say in the matter.
Chozo@fedia.io 4 days ago
It's not like Meta just shut down some random game studios. They chose to get into bed with Meta. This was the most predictable outcome.
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 days ago
My brother in arms, my heart goes to you. I know it sucks.
Never fall in love with your work, ever. Metaverse and VR has always been a neat niche piece of tech.
As a dev, make the thing for that money, and always be ready to jump ship.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 days ago
My man what are you on they sold out to Meta, they 100% knew what they were getting into, and have been well compensated for it.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 3 days ago
Thank goodness there was nothing more useful we could have done as a society with all of the tens of billions of dollars that was spent on this project, or it would have been an incredible waste!
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Even better they should sell the oculus tech to someone else who might give a damn.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s probably a lot of lost jobs.
TehWorld@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But also 100% predictable. Sad, but not unexpected.
For reference, I could absolutely take a job in the next couple weeks with a $50k signing bonus where I get to shoot people in the face with impunity, but I also know that the Nuremberg Trials were a thing. Also, I’m not a horrible human.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 days ago
I expect that everyone there has seen this coming for ages now.
Etterra@discuss.online 3 days ago
Hey Suckerberg, how’s “the future of the Internet” working out for ya?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I do like the idea of business people doing business in a VR boardroom instead of flying all over the place and wasting company money on hotels and fine dining. Nothing to do with meta but how a VR tool can be used for things other than gaming.
I bought a Quest 3s about a year ago and am an old school, single-player gamer. Meta sure tried hard to get me to socialize and meet “friends” while VR’ing but I was never interested. Also, because of the whole surveillance layer built into new tech I worry about my interior spatial domicile information being exposed. Not that there is a big secret in a house floor plan but I just don’t like people sneakily looking at my shit.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 days ago
I do like the idea of business people doing business in a VR boardroom instead of flying all over the place and wasting company money on hotels and fine dining. Nothing to do with meta but how a VR tool can be used for things other than gaming.
Sure but I fear that they all feel so important that they won’t use it.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Sigh…I agree.
Aljernon@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Zuckerberg got lucky once, used the talents of others to capitalize on that luck. If he was smart, he would have quickly retired and set about enjoying his wealth but instead he’s wasted small fortunes running Facebook. Got high on his own supply when really he was never especially talented at anything.
C1pher@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Why not shut it all down?
urandom@lemmy.world 3 days ago
To what are they gonna rename the company now?
TheColonel@reddthat.com 3 days ago
SLOP
bytesonbike@discuss.online 3 days ago
Meta is now SLOP:
Social media Large Learning Models Online Engagement Pedo support
I’m Mark Zuckerfuck and I suck.
ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
AI