John Carmack goes off about online-only games being abandoned: 'I believe in saving everything'

Last week Meta announced that, as well as losing four billion dollars on the metaverse in the last quarter, it would be shutting down Echo VR. This zero-gravity sports title was one of the early VR successes for the then-Oculus, first on Rift and later on the Quest headset, to the extent Meta acquired the developer behind it, Ready at Dawn, in 2020.

The announcement of Echo VR's closure (it's still live but will shutdown on August 1, 2023) has caused some consternation among fans of VR generally...