[OUTDATED] Rec Room: The Best Way to Kill a Game

UPDATE 5/12/2026: If there's one video I regret making the most, it's this one. even though it helped my channel a shit ton, there are so many nitpicks that I blew out of proportion and so many points I completely disagree with now after seeing how desperately Rec Room needed money and the fact the whole game was shut down for good. some of the methods RR used to make money were somewhat necessary evils for the sake of keeping the game alive. Rec Room was flawed, but a lot of it boils down to the fact I just grew out of the game and got bored of it. the whole chapter about moderation was a mess, and I don't think I had any idea what i was talking about at 16 years old while writing this. i'm so sorry to the people who worked there if this video affected the game or the company in a negative manner :( i've trimmed out the chapters regarding moderation, UGC, and advertising from the video. I just noticed YouTube is letting me trim content from the video again after so much time -------------------------------------------------------- A bad game with an awful community is a recipe for disaster. Video starts at 1:22:40. In all seriousness, this is actually a pretty important video to me that I've been wanting to make for nearly 2 years now. Over the past several years, Rec Room has continued to make awful decisions for the game that only hurt it and its community. For those unaware, Rec Room is a free-to-play VR social game with in-game tools that let you play and create “rooms” for others to enjoy. The game is available on pretty much any platform you can think of: PC/Steam, Oculus/Meta Quest, Xbox, Mobile, Switch, and the list goes on. I love the game a lot, but there's no doubt the game has taken a turn to UGC to compete with other games trying to bank on the irrelevant “Metaverse” craze. Roblox, Fortnite, VRChat, Horizon Worlds, and probably more. Along with that, the devs have lost their entire vision for what the game originally wanted to be, the addition of creator compensation only poisoned the content seen in the game, the community is one of the worst I've seen in any game, Rec Room is incredibly unstable and unoptimized, and they even tried marketing the game to children. This game has lost so much of its soul over the years that dozens of veteran players have had it with Rec Room and have since quit playing the game. Guess this game ain't for me anymore. Partially inspired by Pheonix God's “5 Years : A Rec Room Retrospective” video (   • 5 Years : A Rec Room Retrospective  ) “Partially” because I've been wanting to make this before I first watched his video. https://rec.net/image/12004962 CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Intro 1:37 - A Brief History 5:43 - Blinded by a Vision 13:16 - Greedier and Greedier 31:36 - Rec Room Unoriginals 43:25 - It’s Not Just Rec Room 1:22:40 - Evilness or Incompetence? 1:28:34 - November 23, 2019 CREDITS: Writing/Recording/Editing/Animation TheLuchenator A lot of the models/assets used were remodeled and modified by me. Original assets are property of Rec Room Inc. Editing Assistance Pheonix God    / @pheonixgod35294   The TRUE Rec Room Experience (Google Slide) Justarandomjeff    / @jeffdocs  , https://docs.google.com/presentation/... 2021 RecCenter Model HappyVR    / @happyvr.   Music Gribbly - Rec Room OST    / gribbly - topic   Friday Pilots Club - Ms. Supernova https://fridaypilotsclub.bandcamp.com... Media Credits DecDec12 (YouTube) DanTDM (YouTube) Rec Room (YouTube) Everything Virtual (YouTube) Rec Room Wiki (Fandom) u/gendairy (Reddit) Pheonix God u/Yaboi453 (Reddit) flipflopnoob (YouTube) @joedanimation (Discord) @cheeseburgerlettuce (Discord) @pervasivehedgehog (Discord) @captainhardhat (Discord) VRChat (YouTube) Justarandomjeff xwel2005x (YouTube) u/BeansVRWasTaken (Reddit) Clasher Playz (YouTube) The element Of awkward (YouTube) PlayStation (YouTube) Resonite (YouTube) Nathie (YouTube) SoulFoxGaming (YouTube) HæähVR (YouTube) Special Thanks: @realsmexyaiden (Writing Assistance) @realemerald_egg (Writing Assistance, Wants a Chain Whip Skin) Budder Shnarf Gaming (Coining #SaveRecRoom)