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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2,450.4 hrs on record (0.1 hrs at review time)
Posted: 14 Apr, 2020 @ 11:32am
Updated: 20 Jun, 2024 @ 4:28pm

Early Access Review
Two notes before you read further
1. Almost 700hrs on the time of the writing.
2. Game was played and launched via Oculus so the hours aren't on Steam.
EDIT: Over 1000hrs in to the game, of which 906hrs via Oculus, the rest are via Steam.

Pros:
-Cool looking worlds
-Socialization
-Lots of avatars to choose from
-Full Body Tracking
-Both Desktop & VR Support
-Upload your own worlds and avatars
-Game runs on Unity
-Funny memes
-Nice people every here and there
-"Mirror Addicts :D"

Cons:
-Too lazy Devs to fix critical issues such as but not limited to:
-Lagging instances
-Memory leak issues
-Stolen avatars
-Trolls with crashers
-Social tab not updating
-Random crashes
-Horrible optimization in certain places
-Random sudden audio bugs (others can hear you, but you cant hear them. audio glitching, etc.)
-Too limited on how many avatars you can favorite (aka Save)
-Too limited on how many worlds you can save
-Limited groups and how many things can be saved into a group (i.e. fav friends)
-You get can get banned for modding the client with mods that would actually make the experience better
-Servers are absolute garbage (seems like 7million dollars and thousands of simps paying for vrc+ wont still get decent servers and stable ones either)
-US based servers so anyone playing in EU or Asia, expect high ping and lag : ^)
-Horrible user base
-NSFW (Nudity) stuff is out of the question (worlds & avatars even if private) but yet nothing is done with the people harassing others with whatever you can imagine from racial slurs to sexual harassment and so on.
-Game runs on Unity
-If you plan to play on VR make sure you set your safety settings to max, otherwise you might get headache or nausea.


Early Access or not, too many issues remain unfixed. So basically VRChat is a badly maintained game with only glimpse of something good, with only handful of nice people in the game, but that's it. Developers seem to be having their head way too far up in their *** to fix those problems i listed above and instead add more useless interface updates. adding more nonsense into the "home world" making the game less and less fun to play with the constant crashes, errors and trolls crashing the lobbies. The user base seems to be divided into 3 types of people, mutes who 99% time are nice, the people who prefer drinking and then the trolls who are there just to annoy others. Certain other game comes in mind with almost as horrible experience (Linden Labs, i'm looking at you!) so i'd say if you're looking for fun experience, move along. For my experience, this ain't it. I will edit this review if those problems ever get fixed.

EDIT: November 2020, they introduced VRChat Plus that will come to the game aka paywall for better experience, which 10$ a month or 100$ a year. There was already a video made about the topic and those cons i listed, still remain unfixed at the time i have edited this review.

EDIT: 13th of February 2021, core game is still broken and crashes ALOT, while the devs only focus update the useless vrc+ features, and dont bother to fix the actual game. Please do yourself a favor and don't waste any time or money into this s**t, there already exists better alternatives. Also horrible ping for anyone not in US, along with constant server issues, unstability, lag/high ping etc. Absolutely unacceptable.

FINAL EDIT: VRChat decided to put EAC in the game, so if you wanted some quality of life mods, they don't work anymore. Seriously go play another VR game, like Chillout or Neos. And crashers and avatar ripping is still an issue, so EAC did nothing about it. It's just a spyware, not actually functioning Anti-cheat.

The video about "VRchat Plus" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNEjZ5h_Gx0
The video about "EAC" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5ujOeHP7nY

"Few rotten apples ruined the whole bunch."
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