Its not like vrc makes a ton of money off of vrc+
which… is why they need people to buy it. which is why they put age verification behind it? to offset the cost?
you understand that servers alone are expensive right? especially for a game thats as network complex as VRChat? Having to constantly send every bit of data from voice chat to you moving your hands and head over servers? On top of thousands of other people?
Please do not make me have to do the research for you to explain why it has to be this way. VRChat could absolutely be greedy and bar stuff like avatar uploading behind a paywall, but they’re not, and instead providing extra, NEW generally non-essential features with VRC+, which I’d say is honestly the opposite of greedy. Giving incentives to users to support the survival platform they use generally completely for free otherwise is not greed.
Genuinely, you do not need age verification to use VRChat, it’s not absolutely essential. Having it behind VRC+ also gives an extra wall a kid would have to bypass to try and fake verification on top of Persona. Instead of Chillout’s honestly irresponsible non-verification.