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Recroom's reasons / signs of shutting down

The only reason why this game became not profitable were these factors , and correct me if I'm wrong .

⟶ Ai slop . Recroom " creators " falsely advertising maps through Ai thumbnails , some maps promote Ai such as generating images of your avatar .

⤷ this ultimately decreases the reputation of games which are fully made by users without the use of Ai . I say this as someone who has mutuals and friends who were really good builders and made high quality yet underrated maps . it feels like all talent is being wasted .

⤷ In addition , Recroom's Roomie , an Ai bot companion for players to use would need to be paid premium for additional use for a better engine or " energy " . And you heard me right , players need to pay to continue using Ai garbage .

To tell you the prices , it what 0.1 dollars for the starter pack and the 5000 energy is 7.35 dollars . Not much in my opinion , but paying for Ai ?

⟶ putting the things that were meant to be f2p behind a paywall . This was first noticed with weekly items , which were items that could be obtained if you did multiple tasks . This extended to be monthly items until Recroom decided to put all weekly items behind a paywall.

⤷ this also included items in which were given to beginner players for free were now locked behind being purchased with the requirement of tokens , and in-game currency .

⟶ overpricing Recroom cosmetics and consumables . Slowly started to happen once weekly items were out of the picture. A simple set of cake pops would cost a player 600 tokens . As well as outfits which go above and beyond with pricing .

⤷to add on, Recroom would overprice items with low effort put into them . Which brings me to my next reason .

⟶ loss of Recroom's creativity . The game became entirely dependable on it's playerbase when it came to content such as Recroom Studio outfits and maps . Recroom would initiate temporary events less frequently and outfits / cosmetics would come off as vague and overpriced .

They put a sale on these items because of the shutdown . Original price is 6, 000 tokens