Parallel to the announcement that Horizon Worlds is dead a Quest-focused piracy group deleted its 10 terabyte store of VR games due to a removal demand from Meta, according to posts made by members of the group.
For years, piracy on Quest headsets has been one of several thorns in the sides of VR developers looking to make a living from development on Meta headsets. The same cash-strapped gamers Meta targeted with Horizon Worlds slop also found themselves drawn to downloading pirated Quest APKs, with some arguing that they essentially used piracy for extended free trials before promising to purchase and support the work.
“Oh fuck off. The amount of time and effort I put into running this place…None of this would be here,” one poster to the group noted. “The library got huge. Over 10tb for just Quest Games. Plus handling all uploads, our working files, etc…No one wants to pay for and manage another server.”
A post on Reddit from an organizer noted that a DMCA removal request was filed related to Meta’s property Beat Saber and its delivery through side-loading software — that software is also no longer available on Github.
