Creator Economy

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

Desired Action: I want to dynamically generate a UdonProduct using a product ID (text starting with “prod_”). Reason It Can't Be Done: In UdonSharp, the new() method and property setters for UdonProduct are not exposed. Therefore, it is not possible to dynamically generate a UdonProduct by entering a product ID (text starting with “prod_”) in the world instance. Background: I am involved in creating a theater world. I want to sell products supporting the performance in this world store and display a SupporterList showing the names of those supporters. However, since UdonProduct cannot be dynamically generated at present, the world must be updated each time a Product is added. Ideally, I want to switch the Product linked to the SupporterList by entering the Product ID (text starting with “prod_”) from the staff room, without needing to re-upload the world (this is extremely important!!). ====================== Japanese やりたい事： Product ID（「prod_」から始まるテキスト）でUdonProductを動的に生成したい できない理由： UdonSharpではUdonProductのnew() methodやpropertyのsetterがexposeされていないため、ワールドインスタンスでProduct ID（「prod_」から始まるテキスト）を入力してUdonProductを動的に生成することができません。 背景： 私は劇場ワールドの制作に携わっています。 このワールドのストアでその演目をサポートするProductを販売し、そのサポーター名を表示するSupporterListを設置したいと考えています。 しかし、現状ではUdonProductを動的に生成することができないため、Productを追加する度にワールドを更新する必要があります。 理想的には、スタッフルームからProduct ID（「prod_」で始まるテキスト）を入力することで、ワールドの再アップロードなしに（これが極めて重要です！！）SupporterListにリンクされたProductを切り替えたいです。

Right now, clicking the Shop button on the Quick Menu opens the exclusive store page. I think it would be nice if it opens the world store of the current world. Also, when a player opens the shop tab and clicks on "World Stores" and selects a world, it does not open the store but the world. It feels a bit counterintuitive. On the world page, some worlds listed in "World Stores", have no "Store" tab, which feels confusing. It likely refers to worlds with in-world stores.

The title's pretty self-explanatory, I think it'd be great if I could gift credits or subscriptions to a friend. It's worth mentioning though that allowing for inter-person credit transactions like that could lead to scummy behaviour, so the actual implementation of this feature would probably need some nuance in order to be safe from scams.

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

It would be beneficial to have a feature that allows you to set the title, description, and image for each language, so that the display is tailored to the user's language when viewing the page. Some users may not be able to read English but still want to purchase the product, so this will be very useful for them.

Given that VRChat has a limit on the number of groups you can be in, if you're making heavy use of the group marketplace system, you might eventually be forced to leave a group you've purchased something in, in order to free up a slot for something else. Please clearly document what happens if you do so - or, ideally, make groups for which you have active purchased items not count to the limit.

Future Enhancements. I Think VR Chat should partner with a select few of Body Creators. Allow users to purchase the Avatar Bodies. Create an extention to the Avatar SDK to allow creators to create hair, skin, nails, tattoos and clothing for those particular bodies. They have a Dev kit with a "mock body to create on. Allow the creators to make in-game stores where users can purchase items for these bodies in game, the Avatar can be instantly equipped with the purchased items and can be worn all across the platform. I think this will open the door for a large influx of money that will strengthen and broaden the Creator Economy.

TL;DR Let creators make their public Avatars listed in the Avatar Marketplace for a price of 0V/. The Idea The new Avatar Marketplace feature is a great addition for creators who want to sell their Avatars. But what if a creator want to "sell" (but "share" would be a better word) for free? Let me explain: I'm an Avatar creator and I don't personally like the idea of "selling" an Avatar, I prefer sharing them to the community. I like the idea of having a menu where people can find, try, and select an Avatar within the VRChat menu, like this Avatar Marketplace. So the idea is simple, let an Avatar creator share Avatars for free, meaning it's not the idea of buying an Avatar, but rather ability to directly select it. Implementation One proposition is to add a new field in the Avatar dictionary. The key would be something like "listed", and the value could be a boolean (True/False). And the value would be False by default. It would only work on a "public" avatar, not a "private" avatar. If the value is True, then the Avatar will be listed in the Marketplace for a price of 0V/ . The buttons will be different, instead of "buying" the Avatar, you could just select it If the value is False (by default), it means that the only way to get this avatar, is like today, select if from an Avatar Pedestal (or from the API), and it will not being listed in the Avatar Marketplace Also, if this feature is being implemented inside the VRChat API, Avatar search worlds could continue existing, using now the official way to search for Avatars. Making this feature official, could prevent unwanted exterior Avatars information database to scrap and grab Avatar information, making them deprecated. History It's been years that players are looking for a way to get "public" Avatars from a sort of a search engine. Several solutions has been created over years, like public databases that store VRChat avatars information and where you can access with third party applications, or from an Avatar search world for example. VRChat did not implement an "Avatar Search" feature inside their menu for a reason: Avatars creator want players to came in their world, in order to get them from an official Avatar Pedestal. But let be honest, today, we have "Avatar Search Worlds", that are not always up to date, but they are one of the most visited worlds in VRChat, because people want to find Avatars following keywords (type, category... e.g: furry...) or from a specific author (like an author a player want to follow) Also, some Avatar Creator are not always up to create a world just for storing Avatar Pedestals. Inconvenient Making an Avatar listed in the Avatar Marketplace would make the "favorite" list feature compromise, as it could become a way to avoid store an Avatar in the player favorite list as it could be easily accessible in the Avatar Marketplace. Conclusion So, we could make an "listed" option for Avatar Creator to make their "public" avatars listed for FREE in the Avatar Marketplace, in order to share them to the community, while "unlisted" "public" Avatars would not being listed in the Avatar Marketplace. Again, the idea is to not have the same behavior as "buying" an Avatar, but rather the ability for a player to find and select and avatar for free from the Avatar Marketplace.

The "Purchase Item" button to debug in the editor does not trigger OnPurchaseConfirmedMultiple but only OnPurchaseConfirmed, It can be annoying when testing It also happens in the game when you buy your own item for $0 I cannot test the actual payment itself but I guess this needs to be checked as well, actual payments might not trigger the multiple event as well