What a wonderful deal you’re making them, Mark.
Well, if you were hoping that Meta’s VR Chat Horizon Worlds would provide a service that wasn’t hideously monetized… well… did you really expect that?!
The company confirmed to CNBC that they’ll be taking a 47.5% cut from every digital asset sale made in their VR app; 30% through the Meta Quest Store, and 17.5% through Horizon Worlds itself. A move which is certain to lead to an ungodly price on whatever horse armor companies decide to generate for this bargain-basement shit-tier VRMMO metaverse experience.
Meta’s Horizon VP Vivek Sharma made a statement to The Verge on the move:
We think it’s a pretty competitive rate in the market.
We believe in the other platforms being able to have their share.
Vivek Sharma
It’s worthy of note that when Epic Games was taking shots at Apple over the share of in-app purchases and sales they demand of developers, Meta, née Facebook, was right with them in full agreement that the 30% Apple took was an unfair amount.
Of course, Meta’s offering “goal-oriented” bonuses to developers with particularly active worlds. Which is unlikely, since this shit seems to be, for the most part, a ghost town. It wasn’t even big enough to get a bunch of internet jokers to close down the pool due to AIDS… and sting rays…. the sting rays also having AIDS.
I mean, developers will have to charge way more just to get a comparable profit margin to that 30% Meta themselves mocked. If you’re a Meta Stan, I wouldn’t be as optimistic as you probably, hypothetically, are.
Source: Engadget
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