I understand the added simplicity of not providing source files on the marketplace but it does feel like a big missed opportunity, especially with vrchat not having any in-game customisation tools currently (unless a creator manually adds toggles, which would make the avatar very poor).
Making it easier to get avatars for people who can’t access Unity is great, but this feature seems pretty useless for everyone else, especially since avatar search worlds already exist. The avatar testing feature seems nice for discoverability, but I know I personally won’t be buying anything through vrchat if I know I can’t edit the avatar at all or use the model on other platforms. I hope this get reconsidered, or perhaps some kind of customisation system is being looked at for the future.
There could even be a good opportunity for creators to sell a cheaper version of their avatar with no source files, and an optional add-on payment that gives you access to the files to customise.
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