Meta has hiked up the price on its Quest 2 headsets along with the announcement that they would be ending its Quest 1 support for Population One, a popular battle-royale shooter set in virtual reality. BigBox VR, the Meta-owned developer who has been behind the game has shared the update via post on its blog, noting that Quest 1 owners would no longer be able to launch or play the game which would start from October 31st, 2022.

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Meta hiked up the price of Quest 2 headsets along with the end of Quest 1 support 
Quest 1 players can play the game technically if they have a VR-ready PC
Meta declared that Quest 1 owners would be refunded for Population: One 

BigBox VR has mentioned that the closure would be important thus it would concentrate on developing new experiences “that would push the boundaries of multiplayer VR.” Quest 1 players would be able to play the game technically if they would have a VR-ready PC. Well, the game supports cross-buy that would make the PC version available via Air Link and Oculus Link. Therefore, this would let the users to play Population: One by connecting their Quest 1 headset to their computer system. Along with this, the players who would use the Quest 2, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Rift S would still have the access to the game.

Meta has decided to provide Quest 1 owners the refund for Population: One, but “you have to purchase the game from the Quest Store in the past six months”. The policy looks quite unfair for a game that got launched on the Quest nearly two years ago and would possibly leave variety of players with a game that they would not even play.

Population: One’s closure had also raised the question of whether the other developers would soon ax support for the three-year-old Quest 1. Meta spokesperson Caiti Sullivan has mentioned that the company’s presently “working out the details of an ecosystem-wide end-of-support method,” which “other developers who would opt to end the support for apps on Quest 1 would be able to do so.” Meta had declined to comment on the idea whether other games would end Quest 1 support in the future.

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