r/RecRoom

The shutdown deeply saddens everyone, but on the day it shuts down, a game called Wild will be released.

The creator of Wild is hosting a large event in their game as a commemoration of the loss of a game everyone loved dearly

If you do not wish to participate that is fine, but it would be so fun to see everyone join in this event to celebrate RecRooms history (in a sense)

If you want to join the Discord for this game you can use "wildvr" in the code thing for Discord

Hopefully, I will see you all there!

It's no surprise that money will always come first, especially in games. Though the downfall of this beloved VR game fell victim to pressure from investors and their money wanting to be multiplied or generated back.

RecRoom shooting up and raving in players with the 2020-2021 boom gave off a false narrative to investors, thus the game being ballooned and swelled up to a monumental $3.5 billion valuation from hype, not generation or valid numbers. It was a huge guess and a flawed one at best.

RecRoom received well over $250 million in funding. As time progressed and as COVID dwindled out, so did the hype. And as the hype died down, the pressure from investors and money payback grew larger and larger. With this mass amount of funding and expectations, RecRoom needed to expand—they needed to generate more money for these investors. They needed to multiply their cash; it wasn't all of their decisions that made it into game updates (Maker AI, Roomie). As time went on, layoffs began to appear and the push from investors grew and grew. Funding had stopped coming long before; the game was pushed into a hole it never dug authentically.

RecRoom lost its track ever since investors entered the picture. The push for AI grew, the costs grew, their size grew, and their costs multiplied. When AI came into the picture, which was an investor-type ideal to fit the needs of the AI boom to stay relevant, costs skyrocketed. The game was never about fitting ideals of the community after the soul of RecRoom and its developers were overruled by investment pressure and who led the design lead/updates.

The tragedy is that RecRoom did not fail because players stopped loving the core concept. It failed because it was forced to carry the weight of a $3.5 billion empire. The platform became a ghost of its former self because every update was viewed through the lens of maximizing investor payback rather than protecting the soul of the community. And with the abandonment of the investors and the game's funding, the game was left a huge money bleeder, too large for its own body—left by investors to sit swelled as the money only fell shorter and shorter. RecRoom wasn't meant to be a monopoly (like Roblox). Game expansion isn't bad—game expansion without a clear idea, motive, nor cost is.

RecRoom's soul was gone when its own body was infected with the ideals of investors and swelling their profits. A VR gem was killed by the greed of the system—we lost a good one, a very good one.

• Sometimes, shooting for the stars isn't the best idea to follow—goes to show being niche isn't a terrible idea.

Thank you RecRoom, seriously for everything—too many games have been screwed over by investment swelling.

Google docs link for discord servers: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sBwtyS1qWex9X7w-JV4JsBFoXafWOJfFqa7prHMGh8o/edit?usp=drivesdk

A few weeks ago I made a post about the top Three revivals. Honestly, the ones that you can download right now (Radium, vanilla and Stella) are good, but not great. They all have limitations. Fortunately I have made a list of all of the up and coming revivals to go to in less than a week when rec room unfortunately closes down.

I just want to say real quick, some people don't want to hear this, and that's ok. I totally understand wanting to leave rec room in the past. This post is to help out people who are interested.

1. Top pick: meow.net a 2021 rec room with custom rooms uploaded. It has almost no bugs compared to other builds and is promised for quest and PC. It will likely have PC first then add quest later. It will likely be releasing in the next week.

2. Deluxe: a 2023 recreation with confirmed PC and quest at launch. One issue I have (honestly I have no room to complain) is they will have infinite slot. Other than that, this is currently one of the best 2023 builds and will likely be releasing either right before or right after rec room shuts down.

3. RecPlace: you probably know this 2023 build from the cinematic trailer on tiktok. It's currently launching PC only with quest promised in the future. This is still very buggy and it will likely release after the shut down.

4. Nebulon: 2021 recreation of rec room. It is promised before the shutdown. I'm not totally sure what platform it's releasing on but I have to guess both.

I missed a whole lot (didn't know a whole lot about others to write a paragraph for each one) so I linked these 4 servers plus all the rest I know of in the Google doc at the top.

Please let me know if I missed anything!

All of these are amazing and I am eternally grateful to them for preserving rec room.

If you know a revival or I got any info wrong in this post please let me know, thanks!

This should not even be running at all. Minimum specs are a significantly more powerful GEFORCE GTX 970 paired with the i5 (same CPU I have). Lowest detail set in the watch menu’s video settings, 720P upscaled to 900P via Windows display settings.

i love shirts. i hang them on my wall like art instead of using my closet.

If someone that can use Imgurr could check if these links still work and if so, send the images to me, I'd appreciate it.

https://imgur.com/a/hRUXpWL - weapon ideas

https://imgur.com/a/d2JmOaa - TV head outfit idea

Yes i have an account and ive tried restarting the app multiple times, i even changed my internet connectuon but nothing seems to let me play..

context- when i first met my friend sparky, a couple of years ago- he taught me this trick in ^bowling that has stuck with me ever since, i got the news that he c0mm!ted 4 days ago, i was broken. i am now dedicating my time to completing his one goal, getting the “dude bowling sweater” i hope i can achieve it in these final days… fly high, sparky🕊️

Let me know if you want me to make one of yours. Drop an image of it.
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