so rec room is getting shut down later today, thought id share my thoughts so #1 they were operating a huge free to play VR game, do you know how expensive it is to run the servers for an online vr game? #2 they were never able to make a profit, things like tokens, rr+, and even↓
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gift cards were added, still no profit, they even did extreme cost cutting measures like mass lay offs and were never able to make a profit. i would think they relied on venture capital too much to the point where its "profit or die". #3 they had the game across so many↓
platforms, in which it cost a lot to even put anything on them, but they also needed to push weekly updates across all of them.
... recroom shut-down hours ago...
so how did rec room survive 10 years if the devs failed to profit off of it?
@ILOVEWAFL i was going off the rec.net site because i dont want to dig out my headset
@raven probably mainly venture capital if i had to guess
I actually once passed by their headquarters in seattle recently and they took down all their signs and everything
There was also a guy pissing on the wall