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0 pointsAnon10961mo ago0 comments

It's supposed to be a Roblox competitor, which does print money, though probably not to the extent of how much they invested.

The problems are 2 fold:

People/kids don't want to put on a VR headset to play Roblox. I guess they're conceding this point by pivoting to mobile.

Meta is the opposite of cool. Real name requirements, only humanoid avatars, super corpo branding, etc really seriously hold them back from competing with VRChat or Roblox. This one is terminal it'll never be fixable as long as Meta is at the helm.

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tyleo1mo ago

Even Roblox doesn’t print money if you look into that business. They print engagement but are still fighting tooth and nail to make a dime on it.

I can see Meta wanting the engagement though.

bombcar1mo ago

If they wanted a Roblox competitor, they could have bought Roblox for much less than the billions they spent.

Even now it's still less.

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