Kottabos VR

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Finally, someone has pioneered the Kottabos type game!

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"Kottabos VR" is one of literally thousands of student projects infesting Steam. It's from Emory University in the USA. While student projects tend to be better quality than most "amateur" made games, we must still question what value such projects have for gamers. As with all student projects, this isn't really a fully fleshed out game, it's just the result of an academic exercise, and as such it has much more limited value as a game than a professionally developed game would have. Educational institutions should not be using Steam as a dumping ground for homework assignments (especially if the students didn't even pass the course). Sure, it helps their marketing and helps the students feel good about themselves, but this is another case of a business putting themselves before the needs of gamers. This is certainly one of the worst student projects I've seen for a while, it's a simple VR tech demo where you fling globs of wine at various objects in VR. I don't know much about being a methodist, but I'm pretty sure it's something about not being the one to fling the first wine glob. Anyway, this is awful, and pointless. No employer who sees this in a prospective hire's por…