Please do not favor the world based on the management's judgment.
pitoru
Recently, a certain world has been featured on the VRChat menu banner. I've also heard that colliders have been disabled as a special measure for that world.
Why is there such extreme favoritism toward a particular world? Is this world advertising based on money or a contract, like Sanrio VFES or VKET? This world is being treated exceptionally and preferentially, and as the world creator, I find this extremely unfortunate.
I have two suggestions.
- Implement this as a permanent feature, rather than an exception for a specific world.
- Banners in the VRChat menu should be displayed based on fair and appropriate selection criteria.
I am particularly critical of banner 2. This banner space is accessible to all VRChat users, and as a world creator, I find it extremely infuriating that the management is arbitrarily and favorably promoting a world in this space. Since it is a public area, fair selection criteria should be established. Here is an example.
- Sponsoring companies, organizations and companies that pay advertising fees, creators, etc.
This is an area where a typical monetized platform would clearly charge money. It's incomprehensible that VRChat, which supposedly has no cash, doesn't do this. They should consider selling it as an advertising banner.
- Weekly or monthly world recommendations selected based on fair selection criteria
I think popular worlds, with a few exceptions, will change over time. Why not use this as a place to highlight them? This would set certain criteria, such as having a certain number of visitors within a certain period of time and not having been selected before. I think this is a great measure that encourages a very fair and diverse range of worlds to be explored. At the very least, it's far removed from the current management's ego-driven selection process.
I hope for fair management.
日本語
最近とあるワールドがVRChatメニューのバナーを飾っています。また、最近そのワールドへ向けて特別対応としてコライダーの無効化を行ったことを聞いております。
特定のワールドを極端に贔屓するのはなぜでしょうか。今回のワールド広告はサンリオvfesやvketの用に金銭や契約が交わされているものなのでしょうか？極端にそのワールドに対して非常に例外的で優遇的な対応が取られており、ワールド作者としては大変遺憾に思います。
私から提案するのは2点になります。
- 特定のワールドの為の例外対応ではなく、恒久的な機能として実装してください。
- VRChatメニューのバナーは公平で適切な選定基準を元に掲載してください。
とくに、2のバナーに関しては強く批判します。このバナースペースはVRChatユーザー全員が触れる領域であり、このスペースを運営の独断で贔屓でワールド宣伝するのはワールド作者として非常に憤りを感じます。公共のエリアなので、公平な選定基準を設けてください。例を挙げます。
・協賛企業や有償広告費を払った団体や企業、作者など
通常のマネタイズされたプラットフォームであれば明らかにお金を取るはずの領域です。お金が無いはずのVRChatがそれをしないのは理解不能です。広告バナーとして売り出すことを検討すべきです
・公平な選定基準を元に選ばれた週替りまたは月替りのワールドおすすめ
人気のワールドは一部のワールドを除き入れ替わっていくものだと思います。それらをピックアップする場とするのはいかがでしょう？これは一定の基準を設けて、一定の期間内に一定の来場者があって過去に選定されたことがない、などです。非常に公平で多様なワールドへの回遊を誘導できる素晴らしい処置だと思います。少なくとも現在の運営によるエゴによる選定とは遠いものです。
公平な運営を望みます。
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pitoru
Additionally, I've seen many comments on social media saying, "It's wrong to complain about a system that makes money."
What I find problematic is that due to a lack of regular communication, despite requests for this convenient feature having been made before ( https://feedback.vrchat.com/feature-requests/p/collider-on-avatar-should-be-disabled-by-safety ), exceptions were made for specific worlds, and the speed with which it was addressed was unprecedented. There were other tasks that needed to be addressed, such as the invalid OGP tag being left unaddressed for over three years ( https://feedback.vrchat.com/website/p/ogp-is-not-correct ), and the suggestion to explicitly state AI-generated content being left unaddressed despite receiving 200 votes ( https://feedback.vrchat.com/feature-requests/p/require-content-using-generative-ai-to-declare-it ).
I'd like to hear a statement from the admins soon. VRChat should be an ecosystem that raises money, but it is also a world created by creators.
hdorriker
This is actually very novel since I’ve had the impression that worlds like FISH which involve groups of players traveling around outdoor-scaled spaces larger than 100 square feet generally get the opposite of preference. Based on how the things like this usually end up buried under thousands of copies of “Steal a Roblox Game Template”, The same 10 hotel room templates over and over again, and things which rely on YTDLP working, (Or worse, buried under extremely low-effort knock-offs of a world which very effectively pulls players away from it for months). I rhetorically wonder how much of FISH’s success beyond promotion is just a huge number of players not even realizing that things like this can exist because VRChat’s world discovery has become so efficient at hiding this kind of content.
やっきぃ
We may not know the full story, but situations that appear to be favoritism will only provoke backlash.
Be clever!
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うまくやってください～！
WubTheCaptain
One or more worlds (C--- ---e) have also been exceptionally added to cross-platform spotlight category recently by being friends with one or more VRChat Team members (F--------).
The "certain world has been featured on the VRChat menu banner" (FISH ǃ ［RELEASE］ by Godfall) is also a promotional source of revenue for VRChat, due to the world's popularity (> 1M visits in the first week of release) and Creator Economy transactions available in that world.
> I've also heard that colliders have been disabled as a special measure for that world.
That is not the case as far as I know, mobile users (Meta Quest HMDs) in particular require a face mirror enabled for avatar flight assets.
WubTheCaptain
Okay, interesting,
admin_disable_avatar_collision
and admin_disable_avatar_stations
tags have been added (admin-gated) to FISH ǃ ［RELEASE］ today, but these options are not available to world creators to customize the experience in user-created worlds.pitoru
Just to be clear, I think there's no problem as long as the uploading and promotion of this world is done under some kind of contract with VRChat, Inc.
However, if that's the case, I think that should be stated somewhere.