While it has its good moments, VRChat at the time of this review is little more than a barely-functioning, unoptimized social platform inhabited by a toxic whirlpool of crashers, model rippers and egotistical highschool-level drama. Between the Devs' Salem-style TOS, the lack of security for assets and models, the toxicity of the playerbase and the meme ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ culture that gave this game its relevancy being hunted off the platform by people who do nothing but sit in front of mirrors all day and brag about their generic, dime-a-dozen models, this game simply isn't worth the time to install nor the effort to make content for.

For a game that's primary purpose is for people to socialise and make content on what is meant to be an easy content tool (Unity), somehow, VRC's Dev team have failed at BOTH of these, with public instances being a free-for-all where anyone can crash you, DDoS you or steal your models, and their own Unity SDK requiring constant hoop-jumping, further limiting the creative liberty of actual content creators, many of whom are shifting to other platforms (notably NeosVR, which has its own litany of issues).

In saying all this, I cannot say I didn't have fun playing VRC : a lot of the friendships I made have greatly strengthened me as a person and I cannot imagine being without them, but to say it was all sunshine and rainbows would be a lie. The only reason I feel any compulsion to play this game anymore is to connect with those friends : most of whom I made not long after this game's inception, since a lot of the newer players have simply jumped on the bandwagon of popular streamers and influencers, hoping to get their own piece of the Internet Ego Pie. Outside of the social experience that my friends - not the game - has to offer, there's really no reason to keep an eye on what VRC has to offer anymore, because so far it has not given much more than grief and frustration.

TL:DR - The game is unoptimized, the players are toxic and your content is never safe from being stolen.

While it has its good moments, VRChat at the time of this review is little more than a barely-functioning, unoptimized social platform inhabited by a toxic whirlpool of crashers, model rippers and egotistical highschool-level drama. Between the Devs' Salem-style TOS, the lack of security for assets and models, the toxicity of the playerbase and the meme shitlord culture that gave this game its relevancy being hunted off the platform by people who do nothing but sit in front of mirrors all day and brag about their generic, dime-a-dozen models, this game simply isn't worth the time to install nor the effort to make content for. For a game that's primary purpose is for people to socialise and make content on what is meant to be an easy content tool (Unity), somehow, VRC's Dev team have failed at BOTH of these, with public instances being a free-for-all where anyone can crash you, DDoS you or steal your models, and their own Unity SDK requiring constant hoop-jumping, further limiting the creative liberty of actual content creators, many of whom are shifting to other platforms (notably NeosVR, which has its own litany of issues). In saying all this, I cannot say I didn't have fun playing VRC : a lot of the friendships I made have greatly strengthened me as a person and I cannot imagine being without them, but to say it was all sunshine and rainbows would be a lie. The only reason I feel any compulsion to play this game anymore is to connect with those friends : most of whom I made not long after this game's inception, since a lot of the newer players have simply jumped on the bandwagon of popular streamers and influencers, hoping to get their own piece of the Internet Ego Pie. Outside of the social experience that my friends - not the game - has to offer, there's really no reason to keep an eye on what VRC has to offer anymore, because so far it has not given much more than grief and frustration. TL:DR - The game is unoptimized, the players are toxic and your content is never safe from being stolen.