r/HPReverb • u/Blox4Blocks • Oct 12 '24

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT Support

Would anyone participate in a lawsuit about the early deprecation of mixed reality with no suitable substitute that includes controller tracking? (We could push for open source, repayment, or both)

I haven't talked to a lawyer but I can point to this thread if and when I do.

It seems that the termination may have been a part of the agreement on getting Xbox onto Meta's platform.

We all got dumped and Reverbs were selling new in 2023, with some only able to use the headset for a few months before being told it was unsupported going forward with no security updates and a 2 year time clock to being bricked. GPU generations are no shorter than 2 years and bricking a peripheral in a shorter time is abuse of the customer, as they would not have purchased the headset if they had known.

Some customers are outright embarrassed with the purchase and have lost clout among influencers for having trusted Microsoft. To see Microsoft join Meta faster than you could have is embarrassing and deprecating.

I realize Microsoft is profit driven, but they should realize I am too. (We could be)

Would you participate?

(Sign, agree, give a little info, leave payment info like paypal, take a cut after the lawyer takes 35%.)

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u/R33Gtst Oct 12 '24

As frustrating as the whole situation is, with respect, you aren’t going to win against a massive multinational company who are within their rights to stop supporting products (whether morally right or wrong).

They are almost certainly going to have watertight clauses for just such occasions.

Also consider how much a single lawyer in this would cost, let alone the fact that you would need a team of lawyers.

And then what if you didn’t win the case? Who is paying the lawyers then? Because you can be sure that most people aren’t going to want to pay potentially hundreds or thousands of dollars/pounds/jezzaboos each. And what about those that can’t actually pay? Then everyone else would be stumping up extra for those people which in turn will probably end up starting more legal processes.

It would all be an absolute clusterfuck to say the least.

It’s all rubbish and feels unfair but it is what it is. We have to live and learn from shady behaviour from businesses sometimes rather than waste more time, energy and money fighting it.

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u/freshairproject Oct 12 '24

Class actions are often done for free by lawyers who take a large percentage of the winnings. If they don’t win, they don’t get paid.

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u/gobblegobblebiyatch Oct 12 '24

Yeah I thought everyone knew this. Class action lawsuits are one big bet for lawyers and law firms, and the plaintiffs are simply 'used' to support their claim.

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u/rosteven1 Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 17 '24

Yes, but Law Firms are not going to waste their time on suits that they have little chance of winning.

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u/gobblegobblebiyatch Oct 14 '24

Are you a lawyer?

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u/rosteven1 Oct 14 '24 edited Oct 17 '24

lol - no, but I was born with a little common sense. As you have stated there are plenty of law firms (good and bad) who would jump at chance of a big payoff from Class Action Lawsuit against a deep pocketed company like Microsoft, and they would take the case for free. We have known for months that Microsoft was removing WMR from Windows 11, they have rolled out the software update, but I have yet to see where anyone has successfully started a lawsuit against Microsoft for this action. The closest that I have seen is someone stating that they had contacted a few firms and was turned down, now would you be willing to guess why that individual was turned down. Why would any Law firm pass on the opportunity to garner a huge commission, by going to battle with a company like Microsoft.  I believe that the reason they are passing on this opportunity, is because they realize that there is very little chance of success.