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Fees for sellers of virtual goods in Horizon Worlds will be almost half of sale price<\/h4>\n

Meta intends to charge content creators as much as 47.5 percent of revenue from the sale of digital assets that touch its Meta Quest Store and virtual-reality service Horizon Worlds, more even than Apple’s “30 percent App Store tax” that the firm’s Facebook subsidiary has decried.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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