Discussion

• Gameranx Ryan Parreno on x

  Ready At Dawn Closing Their Echo VR Games This Year

• @callenshaw Callen Shaw on x

  @SadlyItsBradley Pretty annoyed that they removed ability to purchase echo combat around the same time / just before issuing this statement. Echo combat was consistently the best multiplayer vr for me. Arena is great, but if combat was on quest this wouldn't be happening

• @vr_oasis @vr_oasis on x

  I'm not an Echo VR player but this is a big blow to the dedicated community of players. The Echo servers will be shutting down on 1st August. Ready At Dawn state they're working on their next project and are consolidating studio support to work on it. https://medium.com/...

• @echogames @echogames on x

  Good morning Echo Units. Here is the annual update for our amazing community. https://medium.com/...

• @jerware Jeremy Williams on x

  Ouch! Echo VR is absolutely one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. I talked for days about my first time playing, the dialed-in gameplay and marvelous sensation of weightlessness. There is a petition here to keep it up: https://www.change.org/... https://medium.com/...

• @tgraf86 Thomas Graf on x

  @VRBugStream Insane. They are owned by Meta... with the ABSURB amount of $ being thrown around by Meta, I can't believe they're unable to find a small pittance to keep the servers running on one of the more popular titles for the Quest ecosystem. Do they WANT to make it look like…

• @bradneuberg Brad Neuberg on x

  @SadlyItsBradley Major bummer, really sad about this one.

• @devtgp Dev on x

  @SadlyItsBradley I get ending support, but shutting down?? That's jnsane. Depressing to see

• @sadlyitsbradley Brad Lynch on x

  “At Ready At Dawn, we pride ourselves on being open and communicative with our community We have news to share... after many discussions internally and with our partners at Meta, we have made the difficult decision to shut down Echo VR” August 1, 2023 🪦 https://medium.com/... htt…

• @oliverending @oliverending on x

  @TamsterPop1 @EricPresidentVR Worth it even just to make ourselves heard. If they're working on EchoVR 2 then they should say that.

• @dominictarason Dominic Tarason on x

  One of the few first-party multiplayer games for the Quest is shutting down, because apparently Facebook (a company with approximately half a million servers per country) can't afford to keep the lights on anymore. Absolutely unhinged industry, this. https://www.roadtovr.com/...

• @frontwayslarry Frontways Larry VR on x

  @SadlyItsBradley @devtgp I feel like abandonware like this needs to be made open source or transitioned to a stable state when left aside like this. Put out a peer to peer multiplayer system if you need to shut down servers, but completely shredding a game is just silly.

• @sadlyitsbradley Brad Lynch on x

  @devtgp Remember when ending support for video games didn't mean you couldn't play it anymore? I member... the central server games not existing

• @pundapcvr @pundapcvr on x

  Echo Arena shutting down is probably the biggest throw in the VR esports scene. Wtf?? https://twitter.com/...

• @oliverending @oliverending on x

  Petition to save EchoVR! Sign it, share it! #vr #echovr #quest2 @MetaQuestVR @EchoGames @EchoArena_VRML @NEPAvrpro https://www.change.org/...

• @vrbugstream @vrbugstream on x

  Echo was one of those games I would get the itch to play, very sad. Floating around in Zero G felt so good in this game and the community was great at helping you out, proper shame. https://twitter.com/...

• @tamsterpop1 @tamsterpop1 on x

  @OliverEnding @EricPresidentVR petition isn't going to do anything, Meta made the final decision in shutting it down, they said they were making another game so possibly echo vr 2 but if it's not them shame on RAD for being bought out from the beginning and shame on Meta for scam…

• @daveneubelt David Neubelt on x

  This puts a hole in my heart. I'm so proud of the game and community of what it's become and so sad to see it go. Working on the game and playing it was some of the best years of my life. https://twitter.com/...

• @skeeva @skeeva on x

  Echo VR by @RAD_Studios will shut down 8/1/2023 to utilize resources for their upcoming title. Such an incredible #VR experience. So sad to see it go 😢 https://medium.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @nathievr @nathievr on x

  Sad news! Ready At Dawn is shutting down Echo VR https://medium.com/...

• @ericpresidentvr @ericpresidentvr on x

  I'm still tearing up thinking of that Last of Us Ep3 Now another sad news: Echo VR Sunset https://medium.com/...

• @venom_xvr @venom_xvr on x

  WTF is this @RAD_Studios @EchoGames ??? https://medium.com/...