VRChat+ Feature Ideas

I think everyone needs to hear this, not just the people at VRChat. Since the feeback page seems to be more for bug reports and suggestions I'm going to put this here, it's the most relevant board. This was going to be a text post explaining my position on VRC+ and its predatory nature, but it ended up too long. I've instead attached the bulk of it as a text file, which I recommend taking the time to read before the next section down here. I'll get right to my two possible solutions for "fixing" VRC+: Roll back all the changes made since its introduction and limit it to something that only affects the subscriber's experience. No exclusive items, no manipulative tactics, just increased limits and some menu themes. The items can be put in their own little marketplace, maybe VRC+ subscribers can get them for free but they should be available for purchase by anyone even past their corresponding event. Introduce a one-time payment. I'm not the first person to suggest this, and as I've already said it's much better for the user if they're able to actually recover from a purchase instead of having to add it to their list of monthly bills. I would personally gladly pay any amount of money up to $100 ONCE to get the benefits of VRC+ and support the developers, but demanding money every month is just plain greedy. Limited-time items should still be made available for purchase by anyone past their event. I very much doubt you will listen since you're encouraged to think only about short-term profits and all I'm really making here is a moral argument. The current model is predatory, it hurts people, it uses manipulative tactics to take money from them and it will fail eventually. VRC+ in its current incarnation is a rot that's been consuming everything good about this game, if you continue down this path VRChat will die and you will have no one to blame but yourselves. My advice is to step back and reconsider what you're doing, why you're doing it and who you're doing it for, because the people you are currently hurting are the ones who made you as successful as you are.

The VRCHAT team is doing an excellent job, but it's still not for everyone and it's not addictive. Despite its constant growth, it remains slow. And user engagement with the game is weak (my friends list is full of people who haven't logged in for months or years). The social aspect is already a solid foundation, but the construction and decoration side is only for enthusiasts with knowledge from various disciplines. It's not a pastime, it's an achievement. The leap is huge compared to other games like Minecraft, Planet Zoo, Sims... And I think that to consolidate VRCHAT we need more of these casual people. I dream of a true virtual world where a player can create a piece of furniture, sell it online (even for 0 if they want to give it away) and that another player can place this item in their world in a simple and persistent way. I envision a true virtual world where a player can try VRCHAT as before, but also buy bundles of currency to acquire items from other players (and VRCHAT would charge a percentage of the set price). This inexperienced player could create a world (or obtain one made from VRCHAT or from other players) and customize it to their liking with houses, lighthouses, castles, furniture... that they can upload to their inventory, or obtain from other players. The most advanced would specialize in what they do best, and construction could be done much faster. These worlds might be non-instantiable since the player (or those they authorize) could be modifying them online. And then in VRCHAT (with online currency) you could buy inventory items like televisions (connection to YouTube...), radios (with connection to external stations...) I believe that a persistent and applicable inventory is the best way for VRCHAT to truly become an authentic virtual world and the definitive benchmark for any future competition. The risk of a good building game evolving into a multiplayer mode isn't negligible (I know players of other games are asking for this). And if this happens, VRChat could stagnate or even languish, because people go where other people go.

Incentivize VRC+ with Decorative Nameplates! Allow us to change the UI color of the nameplate background. I could also see decorative overlays (instead of a color change) such as having a little VR Cat or VR Rat as part of the nameplate. These should be pretty subtle and not too distracting. They could also be disabled by users who have 0% nameplate opacity or nameplates disabled entirely.

With the new items coming every now and then it would be nice to have more space of it

Throw in a small amount of VRChat Credits each month with VRC+. Doesn't have to be a crazy amount, just enough so it stacks over a longer period of time, so you can support a creator every now and then. I think it would provide a range of positive outcomes: Increased value of VRC+. Player satisfaction. Creator satisfaction. And most importantly imo: Boosted VRC Credits / Creator Economy awareness and usage. Extra ideas: Award the Credits only for playing the game consecutively - achieving streaks for logging e.g. no less than weekly. This could balance it a little bit more, for the potential cash "lost" on giving the credits away.

I honestly find it pretty ridiculous that in a game where p much anyone can upload worlds and avis with huge filesizes, for some reason we cannot store more than 64 prints and another 64 gallery pics? As it is I won't be renewing my vrc+ sub since this was the one feature that i could feel myself getting exited about (imagine pulling out a physical copy of some very old photo and getting to reminisce about it!) but then was immediately was disappointed by

Offer an oppurtunity for creators to promote VRC+ and get a commission of it. This is common in e-commerce and also some games have incorporated this system (such as Support-a-creator in Fortnite). This could boost your VRC+ conversions, since creators themselves would promote VRC+, VRChat and their fans could support them aswell. You could also do the same for VRC Credits. The amount of % I will leave up to you, you know the margins etc.

It would be neat if there was a way to make stickers have emissive parts. Perhaps some kind of bitmask or secondary graphic that could carry the emissive features (or just have the entire sticker be emissive, and creative use of alpha could have a neon light effect)

Simple as that. you don't think giving people a pen they can use would get them to buy vrc+? Go count how many mutes exist on VRC. Not sure how you'd set the color, I'll leave that up to you.

Currently, VRC+ users can join up to 200 Groups. It would be nice to raise the group limit increase / higher group limit / join more groups. Groups have become like discord servers where everyone has one, and it's easy to hit the limit now, even when you've gotten rid of all your vanity groups. Especially if you go to events like in the rave/club scene where all entry is via Groups.