# Meta to take nearly half of sales made by its metaverse creators as fees
Author:  Pal Sinha, Barnali 
Author URL: https://financedigest.com/author/pal-sinha-barnali
Published: 2022-04-13
Category: NEWS
Category URL: https://financedigest.com/category/news
Meta Title: Meta Platforms Charges Creators 47.5% on VR Sales
Meta Description: Facebook parent Meta will charge creators 47.5% on sales in Horizon Worlds, angering many. CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticises Apple's app store fees.
URL: https://financedigest.com/meta-to-take-nearly-half-of-sales-made-by-its-metaverse-creators-as-feeshtml

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(Reuters) – Facebook parent Meta Platforms will charge creators around 47.5% on sales of digital assets and experiences made inside the company’s virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds.

The overall charge comprises of 30% hardware platform fee for sales made through Meta Quest Store, where it sells apps and games meant for its virtual reality headsets, and a further 17.5% cut as its Horizon platform fees, a Meta spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday.

On Monday, the tech giant said it would start testing tools for creators to sell digital assets and in turn make money on Horizon Worlds, a key part of its plan for creating a metaverse.

Meta chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg has been a critic of Apple Inc’s app store fees of 30%, but Meta’s latest move to charge creators [nearly half](https://www.financedigest.com/nearly-half-of-parents-still-give-pocket-money-to-their-adult-children.html "Nearly half of parents still give pocket money to their adult children") their sales on its own platform has angered many of them.

The Facebook parent company, which changed its [name to Meta last year](https://www.financedigest.com/praxity-named-association-of-year-at-iab-awards.html "Praxity named Association of Year at IAB Awards"), has invested heavily in virtual and augmented reality to reflect its new bet on the metaverse, a futuristic idea of a network of virtual environments accessed via different devices where users can work, socialize and play.

Meta’s [Horizon Worlds](https://www.financedigest.com/shakedown-on-horizon-for-financial-technology-world.html "Shakedown on horizon for financial technology world"), an expansive VR social platform, and Horizon Venues, which is focused on virtual events, are early iterations of metaverse-like spaces.

(Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru; Editing by Krishna Chandra Eluri)


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