#Second life vr Pc

'They need to find some way to fill the coffers as their surveillance model loses steam.'Īpple has beef with Meta, too.

#Second life vr Pc

' seems like a great way to dissuade creators from actually participating in its economy, but, frankly I would expect nothing less from them,' Rosedale told PC Gamer this week.

I expected Oberwager to be critical of Meta's fee structure: I recently spoke to both him and Second Life founder and strategic advisor Philip Rosedale about the metaverse boom (or possibly bubble), and both strongly disapproved of Meta's reliance on data-collection and targeted advertising, notorious features of Facebook and Instagram. 'I can't imagine that Meta's nearly 50% take will be that motivating to creators,' Oberwager told PC Gamer when asked for his opinion on the news, adding that Linden Lab paid out $86 million to creators in 2021. Outside of premium subscriptions and payments for use of virtual land, Second Life's primary fees (opens in new tab) are extracted when users move money into or out of its virtual economy, and range from 3.5% to 7.5%, says Brad Oberwager, executive chairman of Second Life creator Linden Lab. However, a better comparison for Meta Horizon Worlds is Second Life (opens in new tab), a long-running socialization-focused virtual world in which creators can do what Meta is testing now: Make money creating and selling virtual stuff. The system has probably changed since then (I asked Valve for details and didn't receive a response), but if it's at all close to what those Dota creators said it was, Meta indeed offers creators a much bigger cut. Valve takes a much bigger cut for the privilege of selling items to the crowds that gather in its multiplayer games.īack in 2017, a group of Dota Workshop artists said that (opens in new tab) they collectively earned 25% of the revenue from sales of their Dota 2 creations, but complained that changes to compensation related to the Dota Battle Pass had effectively dropped their share to 6%. Team Fortress 2, CS:GO, and Dota 2 cosmetic makers whose items are approved for sale on the Steam Workshop don't simply pay the 30% Steam platform fee that game publishers pay. Speaking to the Verge, Meta's VP of Horizon called the Horizon Worlds fee structure 'pretty competitive,' and it actually may be competitive compared to Valve's offer to item creators. On PC, Steam takes a 30% cut of transactions for most publishers (it's lower for the biggest earners), while the Epic Games Store is notable for taking only 12%.

The company intends to make Horizon Worlds available on mobile devices, for instance, and on iPhones, Apple's 15% to 30% fee would replace the Meta Quest Store fee. Meta told Business Insider that while the Horizon Worlds fee will be paid by anyone selling Horizon Worlds stuff, the 30% platform fee will vary according to the platform used to access it, which won't necessarily be the Meta Quest Store.