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Well, first Minecraft, now VRChat
3 years ago
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What's with big companies and making decisions against the wishes of majority of their users lately?
A major portion of VRChat used mods for years. Many games THRIVE with mods. I'm pretty sure Minecraft Java Edition would be dead without mods, especially after their recent madness in spite of their own community. See my previous journal if you want to know more about the Minecraft situation and why I say it is entirely reliant on mods now to be playable in multiplayer whatsoever.
A long time ago VRChat updated their Terms of Service to include a thing about mods being against their Terms of Service. People mostly ignored it, a few got scared and stopped using modded clients. Others couldn't stop using mods due to various reasons, from simple performance improvements for lower end computers, to full on necessity for people with physical disabilities. The ironic thing was many staff members used mods themselves and ignored their own terms of service.
VR Chat managed to thrive despite the slow rollout of these changes from the actual game. VR Chat does not have things such as Speech to Text built into the base game, nor does it have a way to customize your menu layout or have it face you when you are laying down. There are SO many reasons to mod the game.
...but here we are now, with an update that entirely kills modding, kills your performance on your computer and has way too much access to information on your computer than it should have. Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) is an extremely poorly written system and it is so poorly written that I refuse to even run the game anymore.
You can check out their official twitter post for more information about it https://twitter.com/VRChat/status/1.....29026799730688 but I think the comments on the thread say more than the actual post does. Oh, also while you're at it feel free to check out the current reviews of the game on the official Steam reviews and compare overall over recent reviews.
...with that said! ...I am moving to play Chillout VR (as soon as their servers calm down a bit- currently so many people are making accounts their servers are crashing)
A major portion of VRChat used mods for years. Many games THRIVE with mods. I'm pretty sure Minecraft Java Edition would be dead without mods, especially after their recent madness in spite of their own community. See my previous journal if you want to know more about the Minecraft situation and why I say it is entirely reliant on mods now to be playable in multiplayer whatsoever.
A long time ago VRChat updated their Terms of Service to include a thing about mods being against their Terms of Service. People mostly ignored it, a few got scared and stopped using modded clients. Others couldn't stop using mods due to various reasons, from simple performance improvements for lower end computers, to full on necessity for people with physical disabilities. The ironic thing was many staff members used mods themselves and ignored their own terms of service.
VR Chat managed to thrive despite the slow rollout of these changes from the actual game. VR Chat does not have things such as Speech to Text built into the base game, nor does it have a way to customize your menu layout or have it face you when you are laying down. There are SO many reasons to mod the game.
...but here we are now, with an update that entirely kills modding, kills your performance on your computer and has way too much access to information on your computer than it should have. Easy Anti Cheat (EAC) is an extremely poorly written system and it is so poorly written that I refuse to even run the game anymore.
You can check out their official twitter post for more information about it https://twitter.com/VRChat/status/1.....29026799730688 but I think the comments on the thread say more than the actual post does. Oh, also while you're at it feel free to check out the current reviews of the game on the official Steam reviews and compare overall over recent reviews.
...with that said! ...I am moving to play Chillout VR (as soon as their servers calm down a bit- currently so many people are making accounts their servers are crashing)
(this is coming from someone who has never touched vrchat)
But yeah, coming from someone who played allot of korean MMOs n such over the years...Their just wasting their time with the anti-cheat thing. Hackers will always find a workaround.
I had my eyes on ChilloutVR, but I wanna wait till I fix my VR Hardware stuff.
Once a company gets big enough it thinks it doesn't need to listen to it's consumers because 'what are they going to do? go to the competition that either does the same or is too small to really compete?'
The down side is there is an overwhelming number of menus compared to what most users would be used to if they are coming from other platforms. It's more like Garry's Mod or Second Life in a lot of ways.