Given the developers peculiar direction towards the modding community, lack of communication, and seemingly hypocritical development of features derived from mods, it becomes harder and harder to both support VRChat and "hope" that things will get better regarding its treatment of its community in favor of its investors.

Many updates have come that have infact made VRC the best social platform currently for VR experiences, lending them to be the monopoly of the VR market at the moment. But with this update, an update that seemingly does not affect a non modder like me, I and many others have LOST FAITH that VRChat has it's communities interest's first. With the strike that many people have taken part of, newer names like CVR and Neos VR, never heard of before, seem worthwhile for even the smallest second. Small, undeveloped and lagging servers, barren 0 pop worlds. Yet, a beautiful showcase homeworld somehow running so smoothly (more smoothly than VRchat's floating gazebo world), with a discord filled with actively chatting developers and modders hopeful of their game. It gives me hope, much more hope that the split that the VRC developers realized they were making with the update.

As I'm writing this, the VRC devs crunch to rectify their mistakes, though whether terrible community reception or such crunch was planned following this update cannot be certain. They are implementing UI and QoL features present in mods previously commonplace for mod users and those needing the accessibly of said mods.

My point through writing this review as this fire continues burning, is to say that even in the face of better updates, and hopefully less crashers, i've lost faith in the VRC development team. It could be any update in the future, another significant portion of the community, gone. And gone to no where, at that given moment, simply because VRChat is dominant through population and funding. But seeing the other VR games and their approach to worlds, avatars, mini-game development, and HANDLING the nuisances of being a free game, it gives me hope that some other game can not only compete with VRChat someday, but overtake it technologically.

Given the developers peculiar direction towards the modding community, lack of communication, and seemingly hypocritical development of features derived from mods, it becomes harder and harder to both support VRChat and "hope" that things will get better regarding its treatment of its community in favor of its investors. Many updates have come that have infact made VRC the best social platform currently for VR experiences, lending them to be the monopoly of the VR market at the moment. But with this update, an update that seemingly does not affect a non modder like me, I and many others have LOST FAITH that VRChat has it's communities interest's first. With the strike that many people have taken part of, newer names like CVR and Neos VR, never heard of before, seem worthwhile for even the smallest second. Small, undeveloped and lagging servers, barren 0 pop worlds. Yet, a beautiful showcase homeworld somehow running so smoothly (more smoothly than VRchat's floating gazebo world), with a discord filled with actively chatting developers and modders hopeful of their game. It gives me hope, much more hope that the split that the VRC developers realized they were making with the update. As I'm writing this, the VRC devs crunch to rectify their mistakes, though whether terrible community reception or such crunch was planned following this update cannot be certain. They are implementing UI and QoL features present in mods previously commonplace for mod users and those needing the accessibly of said mods. My point through writing this review as this fire continues burning, is to say that even in the face of better updates, and hopefully less crashers, i've lost faith in the VRC development team. It could be any update in the future, another significant portion of the community, gone. And gone to no where, at that given moment, simply because VRChat is dominant through population and funding. But seeing the other VR games and their approach to worlds, avatars, mini-game development, and HANDLING the nuisances of being a free game, it gives me hope that some other game can not only compete with VRChat someday, but overtake it technologically.