Meta's Horizon Worlds Is Trying To Retain Users

Horizon Worlds experienced a monthly active user decrease (photo: Wikipedia)

JAKARTA - Horizon Worlds, Meta's metaverse, is reported to have experienced a decrease in users from 300,000 active users in February to around 200.000 users today.

Data obtained based on internal documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal stated that Meta adjusted its expectations to the achievement of 280.000 monthly active users, from the previous target of 500.000 users.

In response to the news, to WJS, Meta confirmed that the company's metaverse plan is a multi-year effort, and will continue to make improvements.

This drop may be due to a problem with Horizon Worlds. Earlier this month, The Verge report said that the team behind Horizon Worlds was facing a number of quality issues affecting the platform.

In one memo, Meta's VP for Metaverse, Vishal Shah said that his team will be in a "quality lockout" until the end of 2022 to temporarily halt new feature rollouts and address platform bugginess.

“Feedback from our creators, users, playtesters, and many of us on the team is that stability issues, and bugs are making it too difficult for our community to experience the magic of Horizon,” Shah wrote to employees citing The Verge.

After that, Meta then launched a new tool that it claims will make it easier for users to report bugs from its Horizon Worlds app using only an Oculus controller.

Horizon Worlds is Meta's virtual world that allows users to create or visit virtual spaces where they can hang out, play games, meet other people and chat with friends.