Buying up game developers to make them exclusives and selling hardware at a loss to stifle competitors is the only "benefit" their money has produced. This is a net negative for VR as a whole.
Like 90% of what a modern VR headset is made of has come from their money.
Like what? I can't think of a single invention they pioneered that's used in their own headsets, let alone everyone else's.
It's happened to several games in the past that couldn't prevent people from cheating.
And those games are...? There are plenty of games that have allowed anticheat to work on Linux and haven't imploded, but I don't know of a single one that has. Care to encourage enlighten me?
It's not even a question anymore. Even if every single subscriber is on the highest tier, they're not even close to making back their third-party costs to run the service, let alone server costs, cannibalized first-party game sales, and whatever else they pay to run it.
The kind of game-specific fixes that get added to GPU drivers on Windows are typically added to Proton, not the Linux GPU drivers. Waiting a week for the Nvidia driver so you can be sure it won't break your system is only a plus in this instance.
I also noticed that the keyboard backlight doesn't work anymore and I no longer get GPU temps in the Freon Gnome extension.