Facebook is pulling Beat Saber from VR arcades to focus on new music packs

Late last week, rumors began to fly that Beat Saber would soon exist pulled from VR arcades, with the information primarily coming from owners and affiliates of VR arcades. Many surmised that this conclusion could exist due to licensing issues with music packs and could happen as early equally July 31 when the contract with Springboard, who manages content for VR arcades, ends. A Facebook representative had this to say about the matter:

Nosotros found with the Beat Games team over time that interest in customizing content for LBE arcades was taking the team's focus away from the consumer production and their efforts to bring numerous exciting new artist collaborations to life in Beat Saber music packs throughout the twelvemonth.

While Facebook purchased Beat Games last November, it doesn't appear to have inverse all that much at the studio until this point. Pulling the game from VR arcades is going to be a massive blow to the industry, and while in that location are plenty of other games that are still playable in VR arcades, Shell Saber is the most well-known VR game around. On the brilliant side, Beat Games seems to be doubling down on new music content packs for owners of Crush Saber on every platform where it'southward currently available.

The lack of my own posts almost @BeatSaber surely speaks some book nearly my hype levels, right?

Busy. Decorated. Busy!

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— Freeek (@freeek323) June 29, 2022

Freeek works as an official mapper for Crush Saber and was hired by Beat Games in January 2022. The fact that he'due south been "Decorated. Busy. Busy!", as he puts it, lines upwardly perfectly with the statement by Facebook on why it'southward pulling Beat Saber out of VR arcades. Trounce Games is still a small studio, despite beingness owned past Facebook, and just has a handful of employees that work regularly on content.

While VR arcades are sure to exist upset with the decision, owners of Crush Saber on other platforms will likely be pretty happy with more than new content being pumped into VR's hottest game. We oasis't seen a new Crush Saber OST since last Fall, only take seen several music packs from popular bands and other artists come up out since then. Whether or not it's an OST or a new music pack DLC that Freeek is currently working on isn't currently known.

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