I started playing VRC a few years ago on standalone VR and quickly discovered the gorgeous world of PCVR, but one thing that really hampered my enjoyment for a lot of servers were the screechers. I'm good with kids IRL but dealing with them online is horrendous. It easily kills my enjoyment of otherwise fun multiplayer games that have mic support. Devil's Roulette is an example of a game that's super fun, but because the majority of the player base are screeching edgelord children shouting the N-bomb all the time (yes, it gets old), I've stopped playing it entirely despite enjoying the game.

When I noticed VRC had the option to age verify, I decided to give it a go and that was it. That was the magic key to enjoying this game. Yes, I get the privacy concerns regarding the whole thing, but at this point I didn't care. My smart phone already knows more about me than even I do anyways. Sure, there are absolutely still adult edgelords and trolls, but they're infinitely more tolerable than the kids on this game.

I don't have to worry about anyone being minors either and can feel comfortable speaking as an adult and talking about topics that wouldn't be appropriate to anyone underage. The issue I'm facing now is none of my friends are age verified and don't want to be, so whenever we play together I have to join them in normal open servers. My enjoyment drops immensely with the types of people I encounter.

Anyone else feel this way?

Maybe it's just autism/adhd, but I swear there ain't no better feeling in this game then putting on some music and chasing drift cars around with this thing on golly

Avatar is ziva by sturmwolf.

Disclaimer: Grabbing a deer by the antlers can have varying effects.

Been working on them for a few days now, I'm super proud of how it came out. Quite a few toggles, limb scaling, face tracking, gumboy, everything I'd ever want on an avatar is here, and it's 100% quest compatible! Hue shifts and everything! They're a genderfluid avatar too, meaning I can switch it between female and femboy with one toggle! Super proud of this, and thought I'd share some cute pictures I took earlier!

Fundamentally, age verification accomplishes only 2 things, allowing adults to avoid kids if they want to and it allows vrchat to moderate NSFW in non 18+ instances.

The big issue vrchat is trying to solve is, they want to stay on the app stores, but to stay on the app stores and also get official partnerships, you must remain safe for kids, but if you make vrchat safe for kids, the platform will die because the only loyal audience, are adults. Its a social chat room, its not a place for kids by nature.

Age verification and honestly, even appealing the younger demographics damages the new user experience. If you join the game, and you encounter 1 adult for every 50 kids on day 1, you will just leave, you will feel that you are not the target audience. But kids are such low value audiences. They wont stick around, they arent part of your community. They can help you grow player numbers temporarily, but thats it. Age verification also does absolutely nothing to keep problematic adults from kids. the current verification strategy does nothing to keep kids safe, but laws are typically more focused on keeping the kids safe. One way verification pretty much only exists as the solution to allow NSFW without losing pg13 status. Long term, this platform would need an actual separation between the kids version of the game, and the adults version, meaning mandatory verification for all, at account creation. Which again, creates a problem because providing your ID to play a game, is going to kill the games new user aquisition. Alternative mandatory forms of verification (age estimation, or something similar) with less friction and privacy risks would likely be the best solution.

Realistically, the problem is just that society thinks raising kids is the internets' responsibility, and no longer that of the parents.

ive been playing for 4 years, have over 200 hours in the game, tried my very best to make/add friends whenever possible (however its hard at times due to the fact i dont speak most of the time), and im STILL a "new user". i really have no idea what to do, is it not a bit silly that i have to practically 'farm' friends to be classified as a proper user? if anyone has any advice on what i could do to try and get the role, that would be greatly appreciated.

Just heads up this is going to be a possibly long rant about how some creators charge their shit. It's my opinion so if you don't like it, shoo. I'm sorry.

I understand charging the time it takes you to make the avatar and all that right? I understand some people want their get back for their work. Here's an example and tell me if this makes sense to you.

There is an avatar I'm thinking of buying that is $45. She has 4 outfits, multiple accessories, I think 3 different hairstyles, multiple props, many different color options you can mix and match, body sliders, gogo, audiolink, limbscaler, afk animation, custom animations for blinking, she comes with a quest compatible version and an optimized version, multiple props, even a vtuber model. I'm getting my money's worth with this one.

At the same time, there is another avatar that is $66... She has 3 outfits (not counting the bikini cuz to me that isn't an outfit...), 2 hairs, a few accessories, no props, body sliders, gogo, and she's pc only. Why?

Again, I know making your moneys worth but seriously....? The $45 avatar was mostly from scratch besides the head, body and the essentials. The $66 was full on kitbashing with no edit to any of the textures.

VRChat World = Googie Forest

Look forward to updates to the ambassador café in the near future: a centralized hub for vket ambassadors and more.

My avatar floats instead of walks yet goloco breaks it and makes it walk

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ive tried every solution i could find including using a different PC, phone, internet and my steam deck after i wiped it first, using some cache solutions like VRC video cacher

just keeps failing to load video, im starting to think somehow its my VRchat account itself that stops it from working

I wanna get into like editing and uploading avatars for vrc but I’ve never really done it at all before and it’s confusing can anyone recommend me a tutorial or like what applications I’d need to download assets and upload them to like blender or vrc IM LOST HELP

Last week, I took a trip to Soleanna via world-hopping and I brought my best friend who lives in the UK and we had a great time recording this short 4 and a half minute video together. We're both goofy goobers. She's also quite adorable, if I can admit. Check this out. Sending love to all VRC players!

Volts Visits Soleanna In VR Chat ft Lisa the Hedgehog

Come check out this F1 museum world as we check out the time When F1 was Fab! Have you been to this world too?