Anyone that claims that VRChat hasn't decreased much in player count from this is either acting in bad faith or don't even know how to interpret a simple time series chart. To keep it simple, you need to zoom out to get a proper perspective on the situation. View the player count from all-time, a year back, half a year back, and a quarter where the noise gets smoothed out and proper comparison can be made to before. Yes, this is an actual thing to consider in time series analysis.

This is trivial, and so many people are just getting it wrong. It's just disappointing.

Anyways, this isn't to say VRChat will die. This may just be temporary setback. The point is, no one knows what's going to happen, and it's wrong to pretend there won't be any significant blowback. You just won't know.

Anyone that claims that VRChat hasn't decreased much in player count from this is either acting in bad faith or don't even know how to interpret a simple time series chart. To keep it simple, you need to zoom out to get a proper perspective on the situation. View the player count from all-time, a year back, half a year back, and a quarter where the noise gets smoothed out and proper comparison can be made to before. Yes, this is an actual thing to consider in time series analysis. This is trivial, and so many people are just getting it wrong. It's just disappointing. Anyways, this isn't to say VRChat will die. This may just be temporary setback. The point is, no one knows what's going to happen, and it's wrong to pretend there won't be any significant blowback. You just won't know.