It was so bizarre to me that they didn't appear to recruit from the gaming scene. Maybe it just wasn't publicized, but they appeared to just ignore the talent available in the multi-billion dollar industry full of smart hard working people who work on the exact problems they were trying to solve. - ThreadSky

mezentine.bsky.social • 3 days ago

It was so bizarre to me that they didn't appear to recruit from the gaming scene. Maybe it just wasn't publicized, but they appeared to just ignore the talent available in the multi-billion dollar industry full of smart hard working people who work on the exact problems they were trying to solve.

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robot-bastard.bsky.social•3 days ago

because the people in the gaming scene knew they were full of shit to the eyeballs

lcov.es•3 days ago

Meta believes that they have the best engineers and therefore it's always better to build anything themselves, they don't consider that other places/people might have expertise they do not

raccooninadumpster.bsky.social•3 days ago

That would require spending money to hire people who actually know what they're doing, which is the expense that must be avoided at all costs.

begemot.bsky.social•2 days ago

They had JOHN CARMACK on board, because he was one of the founders of Occulus

He left because it was so poorly managed and not focusing on fixing the user experience https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/12/17/john-carmack-quits-meta-has-traditionally-harsh-words-on-the-way-out/

mezentine.bsky.social•3 days ago

You have Facebook money, just buy the Roblox team

chimpzealot.bsky.social•3 days ago

Purchasing children is still (publicly) frowned upon for now

cidriel.bsky.social•3 days ago

that literally hasn't stopped the roblox company lmao

zemyla.bsky.social•2 days ago

On top of the other problems, Zuck desperately wants gullible old people to use his platform, marketing almost exclusively to them. The gaming scene is full of weirdos that would make the "metaverse" less anodyne. That's also why these people avoid comparing the metaverse to Second Life or VRChat.

matesrsen.bsky.social•3 days ago

The purpose of the metaverse is not to solve a problem, it's to look like The Future to gullible shareholders and investors you're trying to fleece. And hiring game devs would draw uncomfortable amounts of attention to the fact that this not only isn't The Future, but was figured out 20 years ago.

kaelynski.bsky.social•3 days ago

Investors are the consumers of ALL of these shenanigans. Products? End-Users? Who needs 'em? Just move to the next town over, pitch that tent and pull out the vials of snake oil.

spotweld.bsky.social•3 days ago

They weren’t approaching this as if it was a problem that they could develop and then sell a solution for. They were creating the idea of a solution they had ownership of for which everyone else owed them rent.

boneduck.art•3 days ago

Simple, they think they know everything and also they dont respect creatives, so in their minds theres no reason why this shouldnt be popping off lmao

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