One suggestion that might be worth looking into: Adding some kind of integration into the purchase that the original creator of the avatar can verify. This would allow a user who purchased the avatar through VRC to perhaps work with the creator via Gumroad/Jinxxy/Booth, to provide a discount of some kind if/when the user decides they do want the files to set up in Unity.
Or perhaps this is something the community can work towards somehow?
I genuinely don’t understand what this provides in terms of actual customer value. It doesn’t solve any problems users are currently having; we already have highly visible avatar search worlds that helps users find avatars that fit them. The only reason folks purchase an avatar is to have a personally customized one. Unity isn’t a barrier with having an avatar at all, it’s a barrier to having a fully customized and personal one. That’s something this marketplace simply does not provide. Depending on how it’s implemented, it just has the potential to create a noob trap where new players pay for a premade avi and then when they want to customize it they learn they must buy it again elsewhere for the files
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, this would be a far better idea to implement with props, which I’m really surprised y’all haven’t done already since they’re a really good idea and could help optimize a ton of bloated avatars
So will i lose the avatar i have been using for months and have to buy it to get it back or does it stay as mine because i already use it because i found it a long time ago and i love my avatar
I do want to point out that on Booth and storefronts like that, they already allow everything to be included with the purchases that sellers would want to include.
VRChat’s avatar marketplace is unique in that it doesn’t allow everything that a seller would want to include, so that’s why you haven’t seen it before - There hasn’t been a need to refer people offsite until now!
I swear every time I check in on this game, it’s just another greedy, anti-user update after another. Why not monetize something worthwhile, like a gamemode or something? Maybe just make the game $5-$10? Honestly, this makes roblox look less predatory in terms of monetization, with the way the revenue split and minimum required revenue is set up.
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so will certain avis require a age verified account to purchase