It’s rec room shutting down?

[normal crescent]

Don’t listen to Tara lmao, she made numerous negative videos against RR and she has ZERO proof of this happening

[oak frigate]

in 5 words: its either true or false

[normal crescent]

You do realise how long it takes to make updates for a game?

Just because they aren’t doing massive updates doesn’t mean they’re shutting down the game

[turbid folio]

She isn't playing for the final time, it's just rumours

[normal crescent]

False rumours

They didn’t get fired they got laid off

[turbid folio]

It's been really common for peoplet to make up rumours about rec room and a lot hasn't been true

[normal crescent]

Tell me that you don’t read the dev blogs without telling me you don’t read the dev blogs 😭

[normal crescent]

They say anything to spark something inside the community

It’s annoying especially with this

[turbid folio]

They might've lied but I doubt they would, they've talked a lot about being transparent

[turbid folio]

I know

[normal crescent]

They made like 3 blogs on they’re layoffs

People don’t read they’re dev blogs and then they go around saying stuff even though they literally talked about it

[turbid folio]

Exactly

It is clear that they aren't/weren't projected to stay stable in the near future but I think people are overreacting

[normal crescent]

I’m pretty sure they said that they could run this game to 2029

[turbid folio]

Rec room's community and game is different and I do miss it but I don't think its in that bad of a state

[normal crescent]

The devs would’ve told us by now if they’re shutting down the game

[turbid folio]

I think I remember seeing that, that's what they said the lay off helped with

[turbid folio]

I know, people saying 'credible sources' with no proof isn't really a credible source

I wouldn't believe it until there is some sort of evidence

[normal crescent]

They spent way too much money on MakerAi and they got so much backlash they removed it. AI costs a lot of money and they don’t a lot on it.

I thought it was very stupid of RR to go more into ai especially if there entire game is about being creative.

They lost so much money that they had to make everything cost more tokens

[turbid folio]

I 100% agree

That AI decision wasn't smart

[normal crescent]

The devs are credible source they literally know what’s going on

[turbid folio]

I know, i meant people are saying credible sources are saying its shutting down lol

[normal crescent]

AI Kills games and I’m surprised it hasn’t killed RR yet

[turbid folio]

I think they've realised and avoided that

[normal crescent]

They haven’t

[turbid folio]

Roomie was a great AI addition because it didnt affect creativity

[normal crescent]

Roomie? Ai

Some rooms they made? Ai

[turbid folio]

And people pay for it

[normal crescent]

It costed a lot of money

[turbid folio]

I dont agree with the ai rooms tho

[normal crescent]

We wanted “pets” they could’ve used the MLM models but they had to make a flying robot

Which is kinda locked behind a paywall

[turbid folio]

That's true

I think they were looking at ways to profit from ai

and it back fired

[turbid folio]

It would've taken the work load off of them a lot

[normal crescent]

If your game resolves around creativity why the fuck would you add Ai to it? Most people hate Ai and stop using platforms when they go to it

[normal crescent]

Work load? That’s their job to work.

[turbid folio]

Yeah I dont understand why they want into that direction

[normal crescent]

They don’t get paid for walking around rec Centers

[turbid folio]

They bit off more than they could chew, especially with the small size of their team which made them lose money, they tried to save it with ai. That made it worse, then they needed to lay people off

It's a disappointing turn but I do believe they can sort themselves out

Also covid was a big part of their popularity and now that people arent stuck in their house anymore, rec room took a decent hit

[nimble juniper]

I do believe that the rumours are fake because Rec Room would've said by now that the game would be shutting down, and besides, the game is doing somewhat well on the Quest store by being at number 13

[turbid folio]

Small things like them removing the weekly after seeing a large amount of people not doing it is evidence of them putting their time into more important things to make money

Not doing thingts like that shows the affect of the ending of covid and them losing money

[turbid folio]

I agree

[normal crescent]

They gotta release that making everything expensive so only partnered creators can buy it, not updating their RRO’s and when they make new ones they flop.

They say they’re listening to the community which I believe is true but I wish they could listen more to it. The only way to talk to the devs is from the RR+ lounge and guess what? ITS LOCKED BEHIND A PAYWALL!!

They need to either make a dev blog or do some collabs this year, the dev blogs could be about on why they aren’t making another quest or things they might add to RR

[normal crescent]

It used to be higher. Used to be top 1 when quest first launched

[turbid folio]

I do also think rec rooms choices of trying to be on every platform also hurt itself, a lot of kids invaded the game and it became so toxic

[nimble juniper]

I mean, sure, they're doing some questionable things like removing fan favourites and all that, but, there is still a big group of people playing the game, y'know?
Because how many people are playing the game on Steam? Over 3K?

[turbid folio]

I think if they just shutdown, mobile and maybe switch it'll save them money. It would certainly mean they'll lose a lot of people but this game used to be a VR game and they've branched too far from that and that was the thing that was orignally making them money

[normal crescent]

I’ve played RR go 6 years and honestly this game has changed drastically which I don’t mind, every game changes but when rec room did it didn’t really make the game how it used to be back in 2020.

It’s either we are just growing up and realising that we don’t see what we saw years ago or we just want old RR back

[turbid folio]

And that means there isnt as much kids

[normal crescent]

Updates didn’t kill RR. We did.

[normal crescent]

3k isn’t a lot of players

[turbid folio]

The game has definitely changed, us growing up is also a factor but they strayed too far from their original audience to try gain more

[normal crescent]

I bet only 1k of them are online

[nimble juniper]

It's still a lotta people if you really think about it

[normal crescent]

The Nintendo and PICO port was a waste of money

[normal crescent]

3k but only maybe 500-1000 of them actually play

[turbid folio]

Ooohhh pico i forgot about that

[nimble juniper]

And I hate hearing those people that are like "OoOo, ThE gAmE iS dEaD"

Like, if the game was dead, the devs would've stop caring about the game like stop making updates for good or whatever

[normal crescent]

They wouldn’t stop caring they would just be slow on updates and discuss what they should do to bring players back

[nimble juniper]

Like, if Rec Room still has an active community, it ain't dead

That's how I see it

[fresh jackal]

Those rumors were taken from OUR personal inferences and OUR personal opinions. What's an opinion to a fact? Honest question. Don't get me wrong, Rec Room is in terrible shape, and it's more their fault than it is ours, but we're only making it worse by jumping to these conclusions. Sk0l literally took evidence from the things we say daily (ex-devs included), and seeing that Tarapeutic video in my recommendation is nothing more than a personal vlog to me. Unless word from staff comes out, it's not shutting down. Better yet, if we're still getting updates, it's definitely not shutting down.

[nimble juniper]

Yeah, and I've been saying this for months, but, I would LOVE for Rec Room to jump on the movie wagon by adapting the game into a film since like, y'know, videogame movies are booming right now

Because like, imagine going into your local cinema and there was a poster for a Rec Room movie, how cool would that be?

[wary current]

i don't think its getting shut down

[fresh jackal]

They need to get their lore together first. Roblox has its lore practically done, but it's also all over the place.

Ignoring the random hunts, it's only Robloxians vs Korblox. Done, the end.

[nimble juniper]

Yeah, I understand that, but, I just like the idea of a Rec Room movie being made, y'know?

[fresh jackal]

Ehhh, after what Mojang did for Minecraft, I kinda hope it doesn't happen. They basically just did a Jumanji remake. What's to say Nick won't do a story rip-off of their own?

Probably make it more like Stranger Things...

[nimble juniper]

What if it was fully 3D animated and not live action?

(If there was a Rec Room movie, I mean)

[fresh jackal]

I would guess that it would peak like the Super Mario Bros. movie, but that's uncertain.

[nimble juniper]

And the main question is:
What would be even be about?

[fresh jackal]

The origin of Rec Room's campus, all the way up to the Elseware lore. Probably adding several references for funnies. With something like Rec Room, there is no end, so it would probably be a TV show, at most, and given the nostalgic vibe of the game, that's why I said it would be more like Stranger Things. Honestly, with a mix of Magic School Bus, with Coach being an interdimensional school teacher.

[south lake]

I’ve just been seeing so many mixed videos of it saying it’s not shutting down and it is and I just don’t know who to believe

[fresh jackal]

At this point, it's a flip of a coin from developers.

[south lake]

I mean, people have said that the developers are leading us on from encrypted messages

[nimble juniper]

I personally believe it isn't since all these ex devs aren't showing literal proof that the game is shutting down besides like those messages

[south lake]

I mean, rec room hasn’t even made an official statement so you might be right

[fresh jackal]

Encrypted, but still estimated/premeditated. Those are ex-developers, and any information from staff wouldn't be given to them because they're laid off and not working with Rec Room anymore. I doubt they're shutting down, though, if they can still make updates, let alone, have an active playerbase at all.

[nimble juniper]

Yeah, like, they would've said by now that the game is shutting down and besides, they're EX devs, they shouldn't be able to have like inside on what's going with the future of the game

[fresh jackal]

Sure, they play the game because they enjoy the vibes and the community, but they don't work there anymore. Any other information from them would just be contextual and inferred.

[south lake]

I don’t even know where the rumor even came from to be honest

[fresh jackal]

It came from here, and ex-devs on Rec.Net with their media posts.

But mostly here, from us.

[nimble juniper]

And like, there was rumours of the game shutting down last year, but, look at where it is now, it's still standing

[south lake]

Standing with 2000 active players a day

[nimble juniper]

Yeah, 2K active players is still quite a lot of people, if you think about it

[south lake]

Definitely

It’s still a good amount of players

And usually all the popular games are still filled up with players so it’s not boring

[fresh jackal]

I'm pretty sure that's just Steam though, it's a bit more than that, when collecting all devices.

[south lake]

VR probably has the majority

[nimble juniper]

And if the game still has an active community and showing their support, the game isn't going anywhere any time soon

[south lake]

I sure hope so

[fresh jackal]

It's honestly the smallest, along with PC (Steam included). Consoles beat them by a lot, and mobile is in-between.

[south lake]

Really consoles beat them?

[fresh jackal]

Yeah, ever since crossplay became a thing, people were able to play it because not a lot of people had VRs due to affordable pay.

[nimble juniper]

I wonder if Rec Room still gets updated on the Pico because that headset just randomly went radio silent for some reason

[south lake]

Rec room hasn’t really been keeping up with their updates

[fresh jackal]

VRs and PCs are expensive. You have a better chance of getting a laptop for the same price as a console on Amazon than a whole desktop, even.

[nimble juniper]

I would love for Rec Room to have a PSVR2 port even though Gribbly said that there wasn't like any point

[south lake]

PS VR got removed for the stupidest reason

If anything, it should’ve been Nintendo

[fresh jackal]

I agree.

[nimble juniper]

I mean, it is a 10 year old headset and tracking wasn't really that good

[south lake]

Isn’t PS VR better now?

[nimble juniper]

The 2nd one is, yeah

[glossy cliff]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/193073071802941451/1478868729877233795/Rec-Room-Prophecy.gif

[nimble juniper]

Like, it's got:

• Inside out tracking
• Eye + hand tracking,
• Two OLED screens with 2,000 x 2,040 pixels per eye

The list goes on

[south lake]

And does PS VR 2 have rr

?

[nimble juniper]

Nah, because apparently Gribbly thinks it wasn't worth the money porting it over

[south lake]

Probably was too lazy to do the work

[nimble juniper]

And wasn't Rec Room mean't to be on the Apple Vision Pro?

[south lake]

That’s gotta be one of the most stupid ideas I’ve ever heard

Most people with the Apple Vision Pro are uncs

[nimble juniper]

It's true

The game was meant to come out on it

[south lake]

Is it happening or was it brushed off?

[nimble juniper]

I think they canned it because of how flopped the headset was

[south lake]

I didn’t even understand the concept of the Apple Vision Pro

Like why would people buy that when you can just buy a VR headset that’s cheaper and better battery life

[nimble juniper]

The closest thing we have to a Vision Pro port were these two screenshots

[keen pike]

There's a video of it as well

[nimble juniper]

That as well

[south lake]

Really?

[nimble juniper]

Yeah

I think the Vision Pro port is now considered lost media

[zenith iron]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRHxay_2PzM&t=306s

[nimble juniper]

I agree with him, they've got enough bank to last till 2029, so, the game isn't going anywhere anytime soon

[zenith iron]

wanted to make that video to clear up things

[nimble juniper]

I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS YOUR VIDEO

Man, I'm stupid

[zenith iron]

yeah 😂

your all good lol

i go by many different names and have multiple youtube channels, it gets confusing

[nimble juniper]

And it'll be kinda cool if they did more IRL merch collabs like that time they made a Makeship plush of Kevin

[zenith iron]

i still have mine lol the kevin plushie was cool, only 1,672 were made i believe

[nimble juniper]

Someone's selling one on ebay but without the sword

[zenith iron]

damn

https://youtu.be/DbTndkYddwo?si=hESqgVouPo8fmfJP

i still have the video when i uboxed it

[nimble juniper]

Found the listing

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/306645574838?_skw=rec+Room+makeship&itmmeta=01KKSGTVNCWXF2SZKCV840Q2CK&hash=item47658024b6:g:fgAAAeSwCyppNFOR&itmprp=enc%3AAQALAAAA8GfYFPkwiKCW4ZNSs2u11xB985bw5HjNrYYHzTj%2BcqfyKdWOn4vef1zkqWWj1vFRQDTdHxgGbiOYbzk63JG46Y6kiHk7FreLf--VDiK1ueCJ11qlFA%2BYfCCnwDzuFleXnWkPd%2FZTxTIHd0v7Vq7ZpLODyDrz8q3%2BMF1pISeVePo5UPTUloEnjzOUPKNbEc%2BB5VQV8Y4l%2FrK9MTAZu2iiDgodsy3wLoRFyqMKLkPUu62oriNUI8Y8orf9LQsHkbmd%2FVtKhY34vvavA2pU2uZ1xw5EZOMUg8DYi1W%2BDul8Ub2A%2B8NC9qbLhkMQaHe3s78FCA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR_K667CeZw

[zenith iron]

for $150????

not worth it

[nimble juniper]

I wish Rec Room made like perm items like CDs or whatever

[zenith iron]

i knowwwwww i would love a cd soundtrack

[nimble juniper]

Because I'm not a big fan of like limited time stuff, tbh with ya

[zenith iron]

me either

alot of revenue could have happened during there 2022 peak if they made more merch

[nimble juniper]

I think 2020 Rec Room was prime, ngl

[zenith iron]

i agree

2019-2022 was the best

i stopped playing consistently around 2024

[nimble juniper]

I think I joined at a good time because I joined like two-three months before the FNAF hoodie came out

[zenith iron]

i remember the fnaf hoodie, that was like one of the best collabs

[nimble juniper]

I remember the AJR collab

[zenith iron]

i remember the PSVR Frank collab

whats weird though is that PSVR had a PSVR exclusive skin for the burst paint rifle but they removed it from the game when they dropped PSVR 1 support

[nimble juniper]

It's still in the game

Well, for me at least

[zenith iron]

it is? because i still don't have mine even though i played on PSVR

[nimble juniper]

I think you can only use it if you have PS Plus, I'm pretty sure

I know you can use the skin on other platforms

[zenith iron]

that makes sense, i no longer have ps plus

[nimble juniper]

I've got that one paintball burst rifle skin where it's like wooden

[zenith iron]

i forgot what skins i have its been so long since i actually took the time to play rec room

but anyways, ima hed out, i gotta film more videos for my main channel, it was nice meeting you though

[nimble juniper]

I think my first ever skin was either the comic sword one or the lifeguard one for the railgun

[nimble juniper]

Same to you

[fresh jackal]

That would be gas, actually, just a whole Vol1-Vol3 collection to play on a phonograph, or those small little speaker things with tiny discs.

[nimble juniper]

Yeah, a CD release of every RR soundtrack would be pretty sick

[fresh jackal]

Agreed.

[inner zephyr]

It just depends of their choices in the future but right now the answer is no

[normal crescent]

i have one

i wish they made more man

i wouldve bought every single 1 of them

they should do a mouse bot

and a big bog monster plush

[nimble juniper]

A Jumbotron plush with removable screens would be pretty sick

[normal crescent]

they should hire us fr

honestly i was shocked that they didnt get that many buys with kevin

[nimble juniper]

I think it's because he was a limited time plush and not a permanent one

[normal crescent]

it was from makeship, they said that if they get a specific amount of sales from that plush they would make it a permanent product

[nimble juniper]

They could do like a re-release of the plushie

[normal crescent]

or do another 1 of their characters..

cough cough mouse bot

[fresh jackal]

Mouse bot does sound better. The rest would be better off as action figures or something.

[south lake]

.

[fresh jackal]

Pretty grand idea.

[heavy dew]

I don't think rec room is fully shutting down maybe for other consoles beside quest which I like the idea that rec room will go back to their old ways by going back where it all began quest and maybe a few years rec room will come back to concoles

[normal crescent]

The won’t shut down other consoles any time soon

[fresh jackal]

I'm pretty sure the whole Meta shutdown was a personal business issue (Zuck is going through it rn), and things like Nintendo were a bit of a people-pleasing idea, without considering the implications of what could go wrong. Like not reading the terms and conditions and just clicking agree anyway. Other than that, yeah, there's not gonna be any shutdown for any other consoles.

[keen pike]

One thing I’ll say

The game isn’t shutting down

nothing else yet

[inner zephyr]

The game is shutting down actually
Coach told me with tears in a call

[keen pike]

😭

[hushed coyote]

No it's not shutting down I was just talking with a mod.

And he said no.

[keen pike]

Yeah it's not

[hushed coyote]

People make up anything.

[fresh jackal]

So real.

[normal crescent]

It’s RR, what do you expect?

This community loves spreading false rumours then rectubers come along and make videos about it and then more kids believe it.

[keen pike]

yeah

It's not a shutdown, but I cant guarantee anything good will happen

[normal crescent]

Question broskie, how did you get club support? also congrats on that btw

[nimble juniper]

Yeah, even last year that there were rumours that the game was shutting down and look where it is now, it's still standing

[normal crescent]

People love praying for this games downfall

[keen pike]

Idk lol, I joined the team after they got stuff going with rec room

[normal crescent]

Did they literally just dm you and say “hey twin, wanna join the creative team?” 😭

[keen pike]

I was in a VC with them

[nimble juniper]

And people love seeing squeakers ball their eyes out

[pale bison]

Unfortunately

[serene basin]

so mean for notingggg

[fresh jackal]

On the contrary, the dumb things people say within a span of a month, despite many corrections, will make you facepalm out of pure instinct.

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-mr-krabs-bee-boo-boo-bop-robot-gif-2979170513011770039

[dense vale]

🫪fake🫪

[fresh jackal]

Yes, indeed it is.

[hushed coyote]

No it's not shutting down.

[fresh jackal]

I wasn't talking about that. I'm saying the shutdown is fake.

[hushed coyote]

Oh mb.

[faint ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/mmhmm-mmhm-gif-8299952145522411766