Recroom has dug it's grave.

[scarlet tapir]

The only slight protest I've seen from others is canceling their subscriptions, but that's all that comes to mind.

[fathom olive]

The game is literally fine

And with the new in-depth avatar customization they just announced today, there's things to be excited for

[twilit furnace]

You clearly havent been here long enough.

[fathom olive]

I'm literally an OG player

[twilit furnace]

Okay, So you think the game is fine? Tell me how.

Im willing to hear your side of this.

[fathom olive]

Ugh I was about to go to bed too. I just think that people saying the game is horrible now are blowing everything out of proportion, and way too many older players hate seeing the game change or evolve in any way.

[ashen kraken]

I hate the new watch gui

[fathom olive]

The current 2D one or like the new new one that released today as a split test?

[twilit furnace]

I see what you are getting at. And yes some changes like fullbody were overhated. They were a fine change that we got used to. However Rec Room was better in the past, It seems more as if they are making changes that benefit the company more than the game.

Im sure these changes if were made a long time ago would have been fine. However RR has slowly lost its theme and social value. But thats mainly due the toxic commmunity. RR has done almost nothing to help fix the things that everyone has complained about. Which is why people just kinda gave up and are now hating

(Big text)

[ashen kraken]

The new one

[twilit furnace]

I think its meh

Not good not bad. Tho i havent used it yet.

[fathom olive]

I love it personally

[ashen kraken]

I dont

And it's driving me nuts

[twilit furnace]

Why?

[ashen kraken]

I still have to switch so many tabs and such to get to things it just feels random

Doesn't feel better to me

[fathom olive]

The reason they're doing things that benifit the company nowardays, is because before they just weren't raking in much money, plain and simple. Since it was a much smaller project in it's earlier years, with few team members, they could do whatever they wanted. But now that there's millions of players, and the game is much much larger, they have so much more to manage, like paying their employees and running the servers. They're a company, of course they need to make money.

[fathom olive]

It could be because you aren't used to it yet. Could grow on you overtime. Though I do believe that this is only a temporary test run of the new watch

It's definitely a lot nicer on the eyes

Less clutter too

[ashen kraken]

Not to me

I get it we have different views on it why cant they just add a toggle like the bean bodys

[fathom olive]

Idk man, making games is hard. Their systems might not be able to support so many watch hierarchies or something

[ashen kraken]

I get it but me and several others never asked for a new gui

[twilit furnace]

I understand needing to make money. But there becomes a time when you neglect one part of the game for too long. Which has caused this negative enviroment to spawn. Money-Hungry Rooms and Ignited games. RR has yet to notice how bad it is and take these down. They have neglected that for so long that they are starting to lose people. And i fear they wont have much left once they manage to balance stuff.

[fathom olive]

I don't blame Rec Room for those rooms, I blame creators. They've cracked down as much as they can on low effort rooms, but people just keep making them. I hate to compare the game to Roblox but, in comparison, Roblox has SO many more money hungry, low effort games.

[twilit furnace]

Roblox is what we like to call a lost cause.

[fathom olive]

And not everyone leaves due to the game's state. Some people just leave because they simply lost their touch with the game, and wanna move on

[twilit furnace]

Which happens more often when the game becomes unplayable or unenjoyable. Hanging out in publics isnt like what it used to be. People are mean and that "VC mod" does not work at all.

Which being social is the MAIN part of RR's advertising.

[fathom olive]

I blame people in that case. The heck is RR supposed to do about it. People complain when voice mod works, and when it doesn't work, there's no winning. People just need to be nice. When the game has so many people, there's bound to be some horrible people. That's unavoidable in a social game.

[twilit furnace]

Yes, But in this case its literally every room. I find a rare case where i actually make a friend anymore. when back like 2-3 years ago i used to make plenty.

And yea. Your point is valid. RR is not entirely at wrong here.

[fathom olive]

I must be getting lucky, because I can still meet loads of nice people

In all different types of rooms

[twilit furnace]

Huh. Guess they dislike me 😭

[fathom olive]

Maybe lol. But look, you're not gonna change my mind about the game. Can we just agree to disagree so I can finally go to bed?

[twilit furnace]

I didnt think it was an argument more of an Debate. But yea sure lol

[fathom olive]

Alright cool lol. Good night

[twilit furnace]

Goodnight

[rancid meteor]

Yeah I dont have hope left but if im proved wrong I will be glad

[fathom olive]

I still have tons of hope personally

I'm really positive about everything in life, or at least try to be.

[frigid salmon]

To be fair, this is a 9 year old game now give or take. Live service games are becoming the norm with most companies and Rec Room realistically made it father than most of those games. For almost 5 of those years, Rec Room has been relatively the same game to those who only play in the social side of the game. As much as I love Rec Room, having dabbled in every side of the community from building, to contest wins, to socializing, to playing RROs, to teaching makerpen classes, etc. I can honestly say, if the game were eventually announce they were shutting down at a specific effective date, I personally wouldn't be too sad because it definitely did have a good run, and even more so gave me really good memories!
Sometimes even the greatest of social game titans fall eventually. I miss PlayStation Home so much 😭

[rancid meteor]

Ok

[grim marsh]

were u a psvr player?

[frigid salmon]

Used to play PSVR when first starting the game. Switched to quest 2 the day of its release.

But by PlayStation Home, that was a old PS3 game in which was a social game just like Rec Room. It shut down due to it not being as successful towards its western audience.

[grim marsh]

ahhh

[grim marsh]

Do you think Rec Room VR is actually dead?

I can find no VR players in any games. i used to play

Like backroomsallseeing

Backrooms escape

quests

Also i friended only vr players from 2022

[frigid salmon]

Through alot of financial decisions Rec Room has been going through, I do believe they are definitely focusing a lot less on the standard of VR and catering alot more towards screen based stuff more.

One large example of this was during when the changed the way Monthly Map Challenges worked by making it so that mobile devices was its own category of visits/playtime vs every other console. Definitely probably not profitable to focus solely on VR anymore since it's such a niche console that most people refuse to own.

[grim marsh]

1.2k of my friends doesn't even come on recroom no more

[frigid salmon]

Yeah, many people just moved on. Can't really blame em though. Some people just prefer other games

[grim marsh]

Like I have never seen none of them on. I've watched my friend list and none of them came back online. Ever since

[grim marsh]

ig

[grim marsh]

Is this why gorilla tag is doing better than recroom

[frigid salmon]

Well gorilla Tag is a forced VR experience. I wouldn't really know if it's doing better or worse since I dont personally play the game, but Rec Room as of right now I believe is just going through a lot of hard financial times due to over staffing, and lower player counts. Alot of game companies unfortunately have suffered through these issues since end of a pandemic that essentially boosted their numbers.

[grim marsh]

I mean they literally average around 100 K players.

Right now the peak was 72 K.

A few days ago.

[frigid salmon]

That's pretty good for what that game is! I only ever played the game maybe 3 times. 3rd time I played it I almost broke my window in my room so I stopped because of it lol

[grim marsh]

damn

[grim marsh]

I also know another reason why. You don't need controllers. Thumbsticks To play the game. All you need to do is move your controllers around.

And because of stick drift

recroom died from that

That was a quest two issue.

[frigid salmon]

Yeah, and because stick drift is very common on Quest Devices, it definitely does become another reason why people stop playing VR altogether

[grim marsh]

that was meta fault

Meta did that on purpose.

And ended up killing games like Rec Room.

And I think gorilla tag figured that out.

Maybe a long time ago.

Meta did that to make more money.

[frigid salmon]

Well, stick drift I suppose is just one of many flaws that exist for every game. But I will say Meta did very much cheap out on their controllers for quest 2. Unfortunately, that was really the only decent VR system that was affordable to most consumers during its time. One of my biggest gripes about the current gen consoles is the fact that there isn't the ability to purchase cheaper third party controllers like you used to be able to with older consoles

[grim marsh]

And I ended up getting three headsets entirely.

Instead of could've just brought controllers.

Cuz I didn't know what the issue was.

[frigid salmon]

Yeah, and as of right now in today's market. It's cheaper to buy a new quest 2 than to buy 2 controllers because they sell for almost the same price as a new headset.

Very silly on metas part