Hope you didn’t get pleasure from enjoying {Dead} and Buried, {Dead} and Buried II, or Bogo in your Rift or Quest headsets — as a result of Meta’s shutting all of them down with no clarification, identical to it already did with Echo VR (aka Echo Area).
“We’re reaching out to let you realize that {Dead} and Buried will now not be supported as of Friday, March 15, 2024,” reads an e mail in my inbox. “You’ll be able to proceed to hunt ghosts and different creatures in {Dead} and Buried in your Rift, Rift S, or Quest (by way of hyperlink) gadgets till 11:59 PM PT on that date.”
UploadVR and Road to VR report that homeowners of Wild West shootout sequel {Dead} and Buried II and digital pet simulator Bogo are receiving the identical shutdown messages about their video games, too, with the identical March fifteenth finish date.
Not one of the messages include any clarification for why. I assume the corporate didn’t determine to vary its technique after Echo Area, the place Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth had to spin up his own explanation after the very fact.
Bogo isn’t even a multiplayer sport that requires on-line servers to function. Why take it away from individuals in any respect, ever, when it might merely mark it incompatible with newer headsets?
As for {Dead} and Buried II, it was a $20 sport. Will patrons get any type of consideration or refund? (The unique {Dead} and Buried got here free with many Oculus Touch controllers and a few headsets; Bogo and Echo Area have been each free, so far as I’m conscious.)