That is so true.

There are even troublemakers who place trampolines right at the entrance to the world. What's more, if you watch them and urge them to block the path, they’ll actually remove them.

Since it’s done out of malice, you should report and block them. My blood boils—or rather, my ears feel like they’re boiling—whenever I recall that ridiculous avatar with its infuriating face.

Feels like VRC pulling the "monetization over users experience" way of thinking just like Discord because there are multiple tickets for same request and they haven't been yet marked at all.

I am tired of joining a lobby and having to load 30-50 spawn animations and few hundred of items ON TOP of everyone's already heavy enough avatars. The models we can filter but not the rest.

On top every time you rejoin, crash or disconnect you have to re-hide everything once again. Good luck to you clicking on a pool or something surrounded by users by the way.

All those guns that are added are constantly sprayed in your face and people just laugh at it like is not a big deal.

Massive pools and trampolines spammed everywhere blocking entrances or obstructing view. And the bugged out massive grayed out models on some items when they are hidden and out of sync.

Not to mention the cases where someone spawns custom portal and a bunch of people don't even realize that thing is a portal because is some random furniture or looks part of the world.

Or the time where you chill with your friends in a darkened world and someone spawns with the brightest spawn/despawn animations in the world flashbanging everyone.

I do not think this should be in the safety settings tough.

More like it's a thing that must be in settings, where you can pick between friends, everyone and off, on each separate category (spawn/despawn animations, items, portals).

PS:

Include the custom nameplate mess in all this too.

Loading 200+ different nameplate designs is not only slow, but honestly annoying.

The frames obstruct the profile itself so I never before wanted that a "Better Discord" version of VRC existed than now.

This should be simple to implement and would help people affected by it a lot. Not just "help" but safe the them from certain harm... as they can´t control who leaves/joins/drops portals/use times.

This should have been implemented by now.

as a deaf accessibility advocator, I 100% support this idea because everyone deserves to have accessibility, period. VRChat is required to accommodate people's accessibility needs. This is not optional. This idea is a must. VRChat must make this happen as soon as possible. Accessibility for everyone.

I definitely think there needs tp be a setting to turn off join/leave animations, as well as at minimum large/flashy(fireworks) items. As an example, at Furality recently, there were alot of people placing the pool item in rather large instances, since it was new. And it was VERY obtrusive. You could manually turn them off, but due to it being new, it'd another one would popup soon after.

I don't think fancy portals need a setting though. AFAIK none of them are overly large, or flashy, or noisy.

As a creator and someone with a vested interest in VRChat's long term health, as well as just a human being with differently abled friends: I support this 100%.

VRChat is many things, but I think the most prominent feature is that it enables people to gather and create communities of diverse people. This is the image they've built over years, but when accessibility problems like this occur I think it's a very negative detraction from that image. I understand this isn't a profitable thing to ask for, but I think without proper accessibility settings it will alienate individuals and even worse: cause physical harm to certain payers.

But this isn't even restrictive to photosensitive people, this is a genuine performance setting that would help every user increase their quality of life while playing. VRChat's team has recognized performance as an issue by giving players the ability to customize safety settings, graphical options, and other recent changes. Knowing that this is a focus of VRChat's team, would this not be under that category? Allowing users to disable these settings would be yet another effort for increasing QOL, even if it's only minor for performance it still is a contribution to player choice.

So in conclusion, for the sake of the differently abled and for those without 5090's, this is a positive change that will have minimal negative effects while increasing accessibility and QOL for players.

TLDR: Accessibility for everyone is important for the VRChat image, and overall performance increasing settings for users is never a bad thing.

Being able to turn them off should be a safety setting option.

Not just for those like myself who just find them obnoxious and childish most of the time. Not just for those with low end pcs or standalone headsets who start to lag due to them. But for first and foremost for those with medical conditions.

They shouldn't be forced to go through a whole instance list to manually turn off everyone's items manually. Let alone they have to keep track of new people joining the instance and turning them off too. I can't imagine how anxious these people must be, despite them trying their best and taking their own responsibility to turn off the items manually.

You seem to have the technology for it because instance owners can turn them off. Let us do it on a personal base as well.

I agree that VRChat needs to make options that include people that are unable to use games or watch things due to their epileptic and photosensitive issues. Due to VRChat taking away mods with their anti-cheat this still leaves a large gap of what they were able to give users. Even outside of this seeing non stop stuff can be annoying for any user as there's no way to negate it.

I hope that VRChat is able to fix this issue quickly and effectively.

I agree, VRChat needs to think about everyone involved. Seems they are only looking at the money part and not at the "what it could do to others" part of not being able to get rid of it.

I strongly support this, not only for people with sensitivities or specific conditions, but also in general, a lot of these are mostly just very annoying.

When I mix dj sets live and people send me bees or bubbles to my face , it is very hard to keep focus , and I need to turn them off one by one, which makes it even harder to focus on the decks.

Im all for fancy things and fun, but it should be something anyone can decide to see or not.

Thank you Annie, for putting this here