Star Centurion
Black patterns are malicious, guys. :(
I hope you reconsider how the avatar menu opens up.
Current behavior is that by default, it opens up to a tab showing Avatars for sale. This doesn't make any sense for most of your power users who upload their own avatars, and VRC+ users shouldn't have to see this stuff either inherently.
Some suggestions:
  1. Exclude VRC+ users or users who have uploaded 5+ avatars to their account, have the avatars menu open straight to their avatars.
  • VRC+ users because why should they have a worse experience
  • Power users who upload avatars because they're not your target audience anyway. They're never buying an avatar unless they can get the source files, which VRchat currently does not support officially.
  1. Remove the store tab from the avatars section entirely and just make a new button at the bottom that you can shuffle in the avatars store and potentially anything else you add in the future. See image attached for a concept.
I understand VRchat needs to make money. A lot of your recent additions have been great features, including this avatar store. I understand there's a big section of users who don't upload avatars and this helps VRC tap into another revenue flow. However, you shouldn't have to subject yourselves or the community to black patterns to get there. Do better in that regard.
Thank you for reading.