What is there to shut down? Can people not host their own servers?
“we can’t be bothered running a small VPS for the connection broker on Azure waah waah” says the big corporation
The reality is I bet it required servers with some grunt for physics. Still no excuse though, exit should have been designed-in… Well… I guess it was… The exit plan was always to pull the plug and tell the consumer to suck one.
I’m tired of it being like this, every single time.
Good. They won’t do digital ID, and they’ll stop messing with children through the platform. Too bad VRChat isn’t taking notes from Rec Room.
That’s sad to see. Granted, I haven’t played Rec Room in ages, but when I still played VR it really felt like a great and safe playground for all ages. But yeah, I really often asked myself “how do they even make money?”, as basically there was nothing really serious that cost money. A fear I had is that they sold my info or telemetry, but never too much.
It’s nice that they chose to shutter things down rather than to enforce sustainability through scummy tactics.
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cough cough Roblox cough cough
I know of at least one that pretty much uses scummy tactics to keep things afloat, so it’s heartwarming, although also a bit heartbreaking, to see that they would not let things go to shit and instead take the high road. Kudos to them and I wish the best for the team.
