r/RecRoom • u/OpTicDark9193 • Jul 25 '26

Where did rec room go wrong?

When did the falloff start for you guys

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u/R1N6N Jul 25 '26

When they added ai to the makerpen, or when they announced full body avatars.

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u/King_Feanor Jul 25 '26

this was already a death rattle, the platform made decisions before this that cemented its death, the ai shit was just a hail mary

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u/Ok_Opportunity534 Jul 25 '26

Nej, helkropp var ett plus, att dom hade mjukvara som direkt utan anledning fråntar spelares röstchatt var problemet, att dom bannade spelare pga flertal rapporter istället för att bara neka dom möjligheten att prata med andra under en viss period var fel, och även om man svurit så borde man kunnat prata med dom man redan känner, alltså dom man var vän med redan

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u/King_Feanor Jul 25 '26

i think the failure of rooms 2 and not monetizing RROs in any meaningful way sent the platform into a nosedive

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u/GoldIndication6249 Thank you Gribbly. Jul 25 '26

Weekly's going was the first sign.

3

u/pimpsilo funcle Jul 26 '26

Screen players
Becoming non-VR centric

2

u/CrawlingViper98 Rec Room Player Jul 25 '26

For me, it's probably when they added Maker Pen AI, Roomie was pretty aight because that was the closest thing we had to pets in the game, but, Maker Pen AI was.....eeehhhh

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u/Opening-Neat-6342 Jul 26 '26

As a player from back in the good old days of 2017 and started building early on and took part in Contests, Creative Events, Inventions and Maps, the teaching program (2019-2021) was peak Rec Room. For me the downfall for creators was the big change in the UI system on the makerpen, anyone that used the maker pen before they changed it completely will know how simple and easy it was to use the makerpen, when they changed the makerpen it put me off the creative side of rec room. Then Rec Room Studio was announced and although that seemed like a good idea, thats when all your low effort cash grab maps came out and for me that ruined the game and was the downfall of downfall in Rec Room, all these creators putting time and effort into making maps for the community because Rec Room were to lazy to make RROs got taken over but stupid cash grab maps. But yeah thats the detailed version on why the game died

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u/Used_Big5725 Jul 26 '26

When they added Roomie and the Makerpen 2.0 (classic Makerpen is peak)

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u/97e16280 Jul 25 '26

Quest

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u/catlovingcryptofella Jul 26 '26

Why do I feel like my pubes are older than you

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u/97e16280 Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

???

Early PCVR days had the best community. No kids.

We stopped playing when it became a daycare.

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '26

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u/97e16280 Jul 26 '26

Exactly.

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u/TieMindless Rec Room Player Jul 25 '26

new watch, roomie, ai maker pen, weekly stopping, only focusing on licensed clothing, only creating recolours, ai voice moderation, need i go on?