Creator Economy

A lot of avatar base creators like myself work full time making content for VRChat. Gumroad, as well as other marketplace platforms, have become wildly unstable for creators as of recent, giving VRChat a massive opportunity to step in, I know this is something that has been teased but i would like to suggest that the VRChat team do a survey of creators like myself to find out what we would value in a market platform including fee structures, features, potential vcc integrations and stuff like that. I would love to see vrchat work with the community to create a marketplace platform for avatars that would benefit both the platform and those selling on it over the currently disjointed system where platforms take advantage of creators with little market pressure.

Nice little bonus for supporters that also stimulates VRChat Credit economy. (idea stolen from roblox)

I feel like it's a no-brainer that VRChat at some point wants to let people sell their avatars through the creator economy and get some more revenue going, which the recent 30% staff layoff clearly shows is a concern. If VRChat wants to compete with the existing ecosystem of buying and selling avatars through gumroad, booth, patreon, etc.. then they have to offer equal or better services as those websites; allowing the buyer to download the source files to the avatar. As a creator myself, I would not want to sell my models if my buyers could not gain access to files to make their own edits. It's an extremely common practice, especially in the furry community, to modify bought avatars into unique characters through adding their own clothing, accessories, modifying textures or manually resculpting the body in blender. Being able to locally load an avatar before buying it would be great feature, to make sure it's functional and has a good feel before committing to a purchase.

With this new system coming out I feel like there is the possibility for a lot of good but also a lot of bad. Please have a conversation with the community to put in place strict rules on what kind of content can be sold as well as tools to report content that does not follow those rules. Examples might be : No items or service that promote gambling or can be used to gamble. Please leave suggestions of more rules under this post if you have any.

I got curious and was wondering what cancelling a subscription did. When I read the wording of the pop-up confirming the cancellation, I was immediately confused because I thought that it would be pointless to have the cancel button if nothing happens. Then I clicked confirm and realized that my benefits were gone a few minutes later. Please change this wording in the pop-up to let users be certain that their paid benefits will immediately end when they confirm to cancel a subscription.

Hiii, I think it would be a neat idea if I could use the balance of my VRChat Credits to pay or gift VRChat+.

Give users the ability to review a seller's listing after they have bought it. This would help clarify if it is a functional item to encourage more purchases, notify the seller that an item is faulty, or report to a moderation team that an item could be malicious.

I've noticed that in the Creator Economy Program Rules, there isnt any kind of form of preventing "Pay to Win" content from existing. Pay to win can potentially ruin many worlds, like giving others an unfair advantage. Lets take murder 4 as an example. Lets say that if you were subscribed to them and they give you an item that can quickly help you identify the murderer. it could ruin the fun for everyone. I hope you guys will see this, as it could cause a lot of issues after release.

In the Creator Economy, users should have the option to support their favorite creators through a single payment, without expecting stuff being unlocked or anything else, just a simple one-time payment to say "Thank you" to the creator. Ideally with a customizable amount. I hope you get the idea and add this option.

So currently you have to go the world itself, or go to a group page. Put an option to browse and buy stuff on the world page itself. It will make it easier for people to spend money on or browse what is available from the comfort of their menu. It works both for marketing, generating revenue and generating traffic to the world. Benefits: Display marketing Conversion Comfort and convinience for the users, browse from anywhere I say this as someone who has been in e-commerce for 10 years now, including the VRChat one, so this to me seems like a very simple thing that can help a lot.