A spiritual successor to Second Life with modern graphics and VR support would likely be very successful. Dumbed-down versions like Fortnite Creative and Roblox

A spiritual successor to Second Life with modern graphics and VR support would likely be very successful. Dumbed-down versions like Fortnite Creative and Roblox have been very popular. Zuckerberg won't be the one to build a successful metaverse game though, not because Meta doesn't employ skilled game developers, but because culturally the leadership is completely out of touch. Second Life thrived because of its uncontrolled player creation environment, which Meta would never allow. It let you 3D model and script anything you could think of using in-game (and external) tools and had a free market economy where the developer only took a cut when converting to/from real world currency. The whole debacle with the "virtual 'groping'" and the personal space bubble has demonstrated that even if Facebook's Metaverse did have good creative tools, all it would take is a single article written by a journalist with an axe to grind for them to cripple it. They've already removed legs from avatars in Horizon Worlds for "safety", which is ridiculous.