Meta is inexplicably shutting down among the best Oculus video games

We’ve referred to as it a cross between the Battle Faculty from Ender’s Sport and supreme frisbee. We’ve referred to as it Closing Fantasy X blitzball meets VR. It made two of our Greatest VR Video games lists — three, should you depend the one I did for robotechcompany.com earlier than returning to The Verge. It convincingly sticks you right into a robotic physique inhabiting a zero-G area, the place it’s important to use your wrist jets, obstacles, teammates, and even foes to catapult your self to victory. It even grew to become its personal esport.

However now, Echo VR (née Echo Area) is getting killed off by Meta (née Fb). Fb bought its developer Prepared At Daybreak in 2020, after making Echo VR one of many flagship video games for the Meta Quest (née Oculus Quest) and Rift S launch. Meta is not going to offer any refunds on in-app purchases, in-game forex, or DLC.

In a weblog publish that purports to be “open and communicative,” Prepared At Daybreak says the reason being… effectively, it’s truly not offering any good causes! “In no way was this determination made frivolously. However it was made for a lot of good causes and chief amongst them is the studio coming collectively to concentrate on our subsequent undertaking.”

That’s it. That, and the flexibility to maintain enjoying it (and its FPS counterpart Echo Fight) till August 1st, 2023 at 10AM PT, once they’ll be shutting down the servers for good. It’s additionally unlocking a bunch of the in-game rewards should you play a match.

It would by no means be clear to me why corporations shut down their completely good video games as a result of they’ve determined they’ll now not “help” them. In the event that they’re good, maintain them round! There are far worse issues that Meta retains pumping cash into.

I’ll admit I didn’t play as a lot Echo VR as I would really like, as a result of I by no means may persuade my mates to purchase VR headsets and play VR video games, and I didn’t take pleasure in enjoying this wonderful team-based recreation with the foul-mouthed children I normally discovered there. The foul-mouthed child phenomenon isn’t distinctive to Echo VR, although, both.

I’ll see you in zero-G on August 1st, I suppose? And bear in mind: the enemy’s gate is down.