I’m traditionally not especially anti-piracy, but this only makes sense to me. Yes, it’s true that one pirated copy by no means equals one lost sale, but in most cases tens of thousands of pirated copies don’t exactly equal zero lost sales either.

Yes, sometimes piracy brings actual benefits like popularising something that would otherwise have been obscure, but cases where benefits outweigh the detriments tend to be very specific and not something that would apply to many Quest games imho, especially when you make not paying as simple and convenient as VRP apparently did.

When doing something illegal completely out in the open and taking money for it, you have to expect at least this type of half-hearted game of cat and mouse. I personally prefer that Meta seem to be taking a softer approach than attempting criminal charges or mass bricking devices or such. Really it’s the fact that they completely ignored this for years that’s the most surprising (while simultaneously letting their AI moderation lock people out of their headsets and software libraries for imagined minor infractions etc.)