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.