Update: Rec Room staff reached out to me, and they wanted to hear my feedback! I do love this game, because they genuinely listen. Hopefully 2024 will be a MUCH better year for creators. I appreciate all of your feedback in the comments. Don't ever be afraid to speak up for what you believe in. ❤
They only wanted to hear feedback after you decided to actually speak out. Sure it's nice they may have reached out, but if they're only listening to the big creators instead of the whole entire community, who's been complaining about some of these for YEARS at this point, it isn't the best of signs
Well said Tara. I've been here since the very beginning (2016!), and I've seen a sharp decline in the concept of "The Community". It's really a bummer. But it didn't hurt me until I decided to redo my TacoCove map with RRS. I saw a swift uptick, then a sharp decline a couple weeks later, and I would argue that map is quite a high quality map. I was scratching my head why it wasn't featured better or at least a little more visible. Either way, it suffered and never really made any real visitor gains from when I had originally made it back int 2018! Definitely disappointing, and I think you hit all the right things here as what the underlying issue is. Algorithms are tough, but it doesn't take 7+ years to make a good one that properly serves the community and the creators behind it. I've stopped giving feedback these days. I was much more passionate and vocal about changes, even pulled a "i'm leaving rec room" stunt to try and get awareness of how disruptive their sudden feature additions (or removals!) were to creators, and how they used creator contests as test beds for new features which severely crippled creators while trying desperatly to make their deadlines. I don't know, I tend to use RR as a personal creative outlet these days. I'm always on, but rarely to do I show myself; like a RR Hermit. :/
Also I fully support doing a complete overhaul/refresh of the featured category. I STILL have hangout rooms listed in there, that have been up for years, and that's just not right. It's like Ducky's place and my lakehouse and then a couple others. They need to go in there and shake it up. There are so many better hangout spaces these days, my lakehouse looks quite basic these days...
This video comes out immediately after I quit creating on rec room and canceling my RR+ subscription and has been the first rec room video recommended to me. I could never agree more with these points
As a Rec room builder I can say some of or all of these ideas are great since ive been a creator for 4y now and other problems i have spent hours on and creating maps but never really got noticed. Thank you for this video
As a room creator with my friends, like a build your own room, I really hate when Rec Room replaced the community board with the watch UI. Why would they do that?
yea I used to spend a ton of time doing circuits and made a fair bit of money off it but after a while I felt like RR was supporting the big creator groups like ink overflow and I left after that Edit: RR also doesn't help independent creators when we don't get our money and as a result we feel kinda left in the dust
I stopped playing and creating rooms on RecRoom, One of many reasons are demotivating due to most rooms gets to have Studio in use, and a big margin of us without it are left behind with barely any visits, even though we put in multiple hours into our projects. It's also sad to hear about how they deny access to new creative features due to the players past behaviors (Which can go back many years). So, that's why I quit..
I've started taking a break from Rec Room for a while now to play some other games I find fun. I do go online from time to time, but not very active right now. The play tab lacking diversity is a really bad thing. Really wish it was more diverse, that would help a lot.
As someone who just started really focusing on trying to build, I hate seeing all those copy paste clicker games, I have a friend who does that and makes bank, while i spend my time making a game for it to have 400 visits rec room needs to actually fix the recommended rooms because they are all just copy and paste clicker/simulator games. :/ I also do agree on adding big creators getting reward bubblies and other things, because achieving 100k+ visits is very tough.
Im so glad someone made this video, there's always the excitement of something new but slowly but surely they lose motivation to actually put work into it and it ends up being automated or being replaced with an 'algorithm' so recroom doesn't have to pay a human to change things around. Hearing your voice break before you were going to cry made me lose hope. Hang in there!
I myself am a creator (I am not a big creator only 2k subs), and I did quit because of these problems I will admit I abused it until I realised what was happening and then I made good rooms and quit because I realised how hard it is for good quality rooms to grow. I miss old recroom and the joy I felt on the loading screen waiting to load in to my dorm. Now I just get on occasionally to say hi to friends. Anyways thank you Tara for this video!
I think most don't because they're not that involved with the build community. I've never once heard another RecTuber say they won't speak up for fear of being paid via their video partner code. I don't think Rec Room takes codes from people who voice their opinion in a legit mature way.
I'm a quest player so I REALLY want a new quest or more originals in general! That is my only real problem, and not a bug one either! I still REALLY love the game, and I'm excited for its future!
SO... I am with you on everything you said and it's all very fair, you put it very perfectly communicating feelings that are happening in the creative community..... let's hope they do listen, and not continue to take what creative has held dear away from us. Hey RR Please give us some listen time, try a survey or something. Be our voice.... be our hero!
Im so glad bigger creators are calling out Rec Room on, not only their greed, but their worsening platform. Rec room is becoming non enjoyable and im sick of making rooms now, seeing as they stopped caring about their community. Rec room is not even looking at their players and want creators to raise the platform. (It kind of reminds me of parents who make their kids raise their kids)
This is the worst. but I’m gonna try to continue working on maps until I finish all of the projects I have to make since I have so many good ideas for games that I really want to work on
I remember they did a snowman competition and I make 3 really cool snowman and not one was recognized. With really crushed my dreams but I saw some of the other that was in as well and kinda mad some of those didn't win
Im so tired of getting on rec room to play a GOOD game just to see "SkibidiToilet-RP-Sussy-HuggyWuggy-PoppyPlaytimeGrimace-Fun"...i miss the old games where you knew the creator actually had fun creating the game and put work into it, i also miss the invention tower, i remember me and my friends constantly pointing out amazing inventions we somehow didnt notice, we'd promise to check out all the floors we wanted to go to, but never did. when i noticed the invention tower was slowly forgetting to update i was starting to think that the creators just were tired or forgot to update everything. That was a year ago.. I feel like RecRoom is just slowly killing its community...
As a player turned creator, I'm really disappointed with how Rec Room has changed. When I joined in 2020, it was a great escape for me, just like many others. When I discovered the creator tools and practically spent all of 2021 learning the Maker Pen. but since then Rec Room's quality has vastly declined, and I've lost my interest, and I haven't made a new map in months. I'm not sure why I'm leaving this comment, but this video is very well made and I believe captures the disappointments in the Creator community right now. I hope Rec Room takes the time to fix the issues and bring back its former glory.
Bring back the weeklys Instead of doing three things make it 6 and make it so the community votes for which skin they want back, but also give an option for a whole new skin. Maybe if they want to make money off of it they could add a boost that removed on of the requirements, making it five things for 5,000 tokens or something. This is just an idea by the way :3
Everything you just said in this video is just like me talking to my friends we try so hard making fun maps and they just get no one at all this is really annoying me know
Basically, rec room just nerfed the whole builder system. I'm a builder and i have made some rooms, i actually put alot of effort into them. Then, nonsence games took over. I stopped playing rec room frequently since that happened.
Ngl the issue i hate is the way RecRoom actual deaign of the rec center is dumb. I just wish theh put the community board closer or when you spawn in the rec center.
i promise to never quit! this is my alt but my main is VXXI RR and i justposted a recroom video!! i really wanna be a big rectuber so im gonna give it everything i've got. and I build alot and i've been making alot of maps i really hope they can get up there
Rec Room looks like they see creators as their future but most of the changes that have happened have only suppressed actual good maps and instead promoted some park with a couple inventions
Yes, I literally went to one that was just park with a bunch of costumes and buggies and it was so heavily monetized. It was wild. That's when I knew there was a major issue haha!
A suggestion I had was what if for games like paintball and laser tag they once every month select a map made by the community and put it in the RRO tab maybe the maker of the map gets paid a amount of items bought in that little gift shop and maybe in order to have a map qualify they would need to have the map be unique OR have a new weapon using CW2 Just imagine how could that could be and maybe once a year all the maps are selected for the vote and the winning map gets to stay
I would love to hear your suggestions on ways Rec Room can improve! Let me know your thoughts in the comments! If you want to watch another video, check out this one here, next! ua-cam.com/video/uwZWrXx3cMc/v-deo.html
I liked this, it was just addressing the fact there have been way to many "Cash grabs" Aka clicker games also i have believe that there shouldnt be so many army/millitary games because theres way to many of them and there all just cash grabs taking up space in the new/hot tab
There are a lot of ways Rec room can improve in general, but I liked the point that one small rec room creator made on just how Rec room are trying their best. They have done so much for the game and they're trying to improve it so much. I just really appreciate all the Devs effort put into this game. Rec room will always be one of my favorite games.
For me, the thing that would bring me back to Rec Room would be if they just finally optimized the game and watch to run better. I don't really care about the items too much or much else, but when I can't even hang out with my friends without my game lagging a lot or crashing, it gets really annoying so I've mostly quit now.
I loved going to the invention store. All the change is rr killing itself and the community. What some players are doing to kill it is making copy and pasted type rooms on top as players being racist or being sexual towards another player.
true. my first few seconds in the rec room was someone kissing a bald guy on their head while speaking in a soft voice. i don’t wanna know what they were doing.
I teared up watching this. I was so lucky to start building when Invention Tower was all the rage. Getting my inventions both in the tower and featured was so confidence boosting to me that I grew to love building inventions each week to see which ones made it in. I met my best RecRoom friend Lady_Pearla in the tower as we shared that excitement and motivation each week. We would pop in there each time to excitedly watch everyone enjoying what we had created. After submissions stopped, we felt a bit lost. We spent the next months grasping at any event that allowed us to get featured like Contests, Rec Rocks, Rec Con, ect. and eventually just trying to motivate each other by setting our own build goals. We still have to struggle to keep up with the changes and this doesn't help out new creators either as many of them have no way to get recognized enough to justify spending time to build quality stuff. Thank you so much for making this video by the way. I really love your suggestions as I would love to see Invention Tower return or perhaps even bring featured inventions and dormskins back!
More reiterations of what other creators are feeling. It's a shame. I hope you continue building and that Rec Room makes some changes to bring back inspiration and creativity ❤
I cannot expalin how glad I am that Content Creators like you, make this kinds of videos. It breaks my heart looking back in the past and seeing how excited I used to be when creating maps and getting even just a bit of recognition, which helped me a lot. But realizing that they barely even care for us now, it makes me backup and think about leaving the community or keep going. Me as one of the main creators who founded the Spanish Community on Rec Room, i´ve been fighting for my community to be featured even more, and I barely got anything from all the ideas I´ve gave to Rec Room. I hope this video is watched by some Rec Room Staff members and they reconsider working better along creators and its community. New subscriber!
I appreciate your feedback! And I'm sorry you're feeling ignored. I'm certain Rec Room is still going through growing pains on how to best approach all of these things. It's just tough at times to persevere whilst feeling like program after program gets cut. Sé fuerte ❤
thank you for covering these topics and spreading the issues we face to your audience! it's a very stressful time to be a creator on this platform and all we can do is make sure our voices are heard.
I've been a active creator since 2019, I've participated in 9 contests, placing all the way from top 10 to top 1. Its amazing to see the high that was early 2021 for creators, discovering a amazing way to get paid for art, to the low that is now were art seems to be dead.
As a Rec Room builder and player since 2020, I feel like RR is kind of ruining itself. Ever since RR Studio, I have had so much trouble making games, and I have pretty much abandoned the game. Last I played was November of 2022. A whole year at this point. Im going to play again today, but i feel Rec Room is kinda ruined. ):
As a creator myself, I remember when I'd be able to pay rent for a time solely off of featured custom Shirts and Inventions and playing the game was not only fun but inspiring! Now playing it feels like I'm wasting time or I might be able to do this until I realize I'm wasting time
a few months ago for an honor/gifted project i decided to become one of those lazy recroom creators, and ended up making around 40,000 tokens before i shut it down. afterwards i donated it randos in the rec center, but it was still shocking because that was more than i had ever made in my 3 years of the game, and for something so lazy and stupid
Featured inventions, Invention tower, and featured rooms MUST Come back! As a recroom creator with higher quality rooms, I understand exactly what you mean. Lower end rooms get tons of traction and higher quality rooms seem to be not even noticed.
I agree with this video A TON! Especially with the room rewards and the carousels. I worked on a map “^PlanZeta-Imperfectum” for MONTHS and it is such a high quality action quest. I saw an obby get released at the same time and my quest stopped at 12.2k meanwhile this obby is over 100k. It’s absolutely insane that all of my work has gone into the back end of Rec Room when I put soooo much time into that quest. It is absolutely insane. This makes me wonder how many other games are pushed to the side like that.
Im really upset, since emily waffles started working for rec room she dosent upload anything for her own channel. And its so sad. Im so happy for her, but miss her own videos!
Don't get me wrong, I still love Rec Room, and always will be grateful for all my experiences and good times there, but god this video really just represents the current downward decline of the game. They are no longer listening to their community in any capacity, proven even moreso by the fact they've hosted a singular AMA in the past year. I miss creating videos and playing the game, but it has become next to impossible to get myself to do so when every time I log on, things don't feel the same, the "Play" tab is honestly terrifying, and issues that have existed since I began playing almost 4 YEARS ago are still present. Thank you for this very insightful, and as always great video. As well as thank you for using your platform to speak up about everyone's discontent, as it will always be beneficial in the fight to be heard. Lots of love Tara!
I've mentioned this countless times, not specifically here, but in general. Rec Room, like many other game companies, prioritizes their profits over their fans. Instead of focusing on creating updates that fans would truly appreciate, it's like they are primarily concerned with how much money they're making.
you took the words basically out of my mouth. i was working on a super high detailed dorm skin when they suddenly decided to completely kill off the featured inventions and ink inc... it just sucks to see the very game ive been playing for so long every day just treat their community like this. also im happy you recorded in my room again! :D
Thats one of the reasons that I quit, getting my Co taken away from maps with thousands of likes and visits , while working so hard in it, And the prices of items going up so much
I will Never quit rec room for my channel When i reach 5k sub i will do a more Bot for a recbots for a rec con 2024 who asking me with DQও if i was a rec con booth the creator are ganna be happy about it i will Never give up 👍
sooo i have a on and off relationship with this game, usually after i stop playing the game for a few months il return and there will be some huge upgrades to the game! but i recently returned and WHEN DID THE WEEKLY GET REMOVED??? AND THE BOARD TOO??? i do believe i wont stick to rec room sadly even tho i the art style and social aspect of some of the games, hope they make some sort of change that makes me wanna return but i suppose for now ill only use it to record my avatar standing in front of a green screen doing random stuff or hang out with some friends.
I trara I love your videos and your have inspired me to become a rec room tuber and I have a question do you have any good editing software that are good for editing videos I hope your having a great day or afternoon keep up the great work
#2 was so true, my friend thecoolcapybara/thecapy arawhisperer made a quest called revenge of the king, and it’s so underrated that to play it I have to favorite it to play it regularly because everything is skibidi toilet, clicking sims, build scenes, and Roblox copies. It just isn’t fair tbh.
I 100% agree with all of the points that you made in this, and I also respect you so much for making it in the first place. As someone who also creates content on Rec Room, the only times I've actually gotten on Rec Room these past few months was for the monthly challenge, and to get footage and pictures for videos. While I'm happy that Rec Room at least decided to take action on the Roblox thumbnails, *which honestly bothered me the most since most of the Roblox thumbnails are just straight up stolen off of Google, which says a lot about how much work they actually put in the map,* I think there needs to be a lot more changes that Rec Room needs to implement in order to make Rec Room way more enjoyable again, and I also think that Rec Room needs to communicate way more with their audience when it comes to this. Sorry for the long rant, anyway, good video lol
I do find it extremely annoying trying to find a game to play on Rec room. I got it on my Xbox back in 2021 but started playing alot more when I got my VR on Christmas 2023 and already extremely bored of it.
Hi tarapeutic, I saw this video and I feel really bad for all of the creators in the world who are just starting. I was also wondering if you could help me sponsor my Fnaf movie game when it comes out. If you can, please try to reply, and then I will reply back when it’s out.
4:03 from featured rooms, my friend got 200k visits on his contest room in 2021 11:05 im really sad invention tower got removed, i was in invention tower (and the reccenter) on april 1st 2022 and i made 100 thousand tokens and a ton of subscribers. it was really a great system
as a rec room creator that is currently growing and becoming more popular, I would love to have my games get more popular as I have made some good rooms, but they only manage to get low on the new tab, only raking in about 3k visits - 10k visits. I feel as if they are making it impossible to grow as none of the old things that used to work to promote your game work anymore, (idk why i wrote this)
I loved Invention tower as well... And when I saw that it hasn't been updated for three weeks, I ALMOST QUIT. You are in FLAMING HOT water, Rec Room. ) :
I have been a RR builder for 3+ years. This video made me realize why I have been feeling a lack of motivation in building rooms knowing that a "Skibidi Fun Land" map will get more visit and will profit more from the 50% more credit then any map I put days of work into.
I've been making maps for free for the last 2 years because I want to create places for my friends and I to hangout in and bring entertainment to the Rec Room. Maybe try building for the sake of creativity and building the community instead of money and notoriety.. You will be much happier when changes like this happen because it doesn't really affect you.
My custom shirt has been featured for a while sitting at the near bottom of the list. I even spend all of my tokens I get just to gift the less fortunate players who don’t know how to get tokens in the first place. I just wish they would bring back some of the rotations so more newer creators could get a chance in the spotlight.
hey tara! i do love how much passion you put into making this. i know you love this game and i love that you like the game so much that you cry abt it. dont be ashamed to cry over something you love.
Yea... all the maps on the hot tab are all og maps idc about anymore, clicker simulates, and random pvp maps that are boring. I also feel like recroom has gone down hill and has begun to get greedy.
Yea when i first started to see Crappy roblox clickers in the hot or new i fealt disapointed because some of my favorite games are ones of found in the new tab and that doesnt really happen anymore because its all just shi... crappy low effort games, i have to look for good games now but it used to be theres like alot of them in the new tab
I’m so excited for full body in rec room it’s going to be so fun you will finally be able to walk around as a full on avatar instead of a bean with floating arms and head but I understand her pain and it does hurt especially if you have met people in the game and friends
Thank you for putting the way we all have been feeling lately in to words. This sucks and it seems like recroom doesn't care how burned out the creative community is getting after they cancled or ruined anything designed to help creators. I have friends who have gone from being excited to show me a new map they worked hard on to being embarrassed to show me a low effort cash grab map they felt forced into. I don't know if I like what recroom is becoming.
Yes, that's happened to me too, creators are just doing what they can, but unfortunately they've had to make things they're NOT proud of just to try and gain recognition. It's not healthy for the creative spirit at that point and they just suffer burnout. I appreciate your feedback!
Hey Three headed. I couldn't agree more .. glad she made this video too. Don't think it will change things though. You yourself worked so hard in RR and put out quality maps .. and get little to no recognition. I built maps too .. and got a couple featured proud to say .. but it would have been nice to get something from Coach even as a good job present for getting featured. Now I hear they did away with featured rooms as I was thinking of submitting one. Way to go RR
I make a skibidi toilet game (your gonna say cringe and u didnt) but it actually good other than games with free models (me saying free models because other games use free models but are game doesn’t use any models
I was number 194 to watch this and I feel like rec room has been ruined Also lots of random accounts that have been reported once for being under aged have been turned into an underage account
Been on both the youtuber and game dev side of this coin. You've basically said everything that's been on my mind as of the past few months lol. Very well put. I agree with almost everything said. Especially the "my thoughts" section. I love rec room, but times have most certainly changed.
This was such a good video to watch. It literally made me sad aswell that they’ve ruined room rewards and loads of things. Rec Room really needs to do what u said because it’s just perfect. Thanks Tara.
Rec Room is great concept and platform that has so much potential to keep growing and being a leader in the industry. But, Instead of improving, innovating and listening to the users and creators, the company seems to be very stagnant and more interested in milking the current platform until they kill it rather than reinvesting in its growth and development. They continue to remove features that users like (like weekly challenges), they don't update maps of popular games (like rec royal or paintball), and they don't seem to have any interest in responding to obvious problems. I used to be able to jump on a game of RR squads or solos anytime, almost always running into my RR friends, but it takes forever to get a game started these days and MANY of my old RR friends have moved on to other platforms because they got bored. There are so many simple fixes and creative ideas that I've heard discussed but RR just keeps sliding backwards. A few suggestions: feature only good maps on the board so people don't feel like they're wasting their time trying some of them out, get creative with some of the popular maps so they are fun again - new maps, seasonal maps, new weapons, new placement of the weapons, etc. With rec room squads, and especially solos, require fewer people for the game to start - maybe every minute or two the number of players required drops so at least you know it's worth waiting in the lobby because eventually you will get to play. Is there actually somewhere within Rec Room to make suggestions?
Yes, you can give feedback via a Zendesk ticket I believe! I agree about Rec Royale. Man it's SO FRUSTRATING to wait for the lobby to fill sometimes! You need what, 18 people for squads? And someone can be loading in then crash and it just breaks the entire lobby.
Update: Rec Room staff reached out to me, and they wanted to hear my feedback! I do love this game, because they genuinely listen. Hopefully 2024 will be a MUCH better year for creators. I appreciate all of your feedback in the comments. Don't ever be afraid to speak up for what you believe in. ❤
They only wanted to hear feedback after you decided to actually speak out. Sure it's nice they may have reached out, but if they're only listening to the big creators instead of the whole entire community, who's been complaining about some of these for YEARS at this point, it isn't the best of signs
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Well said Tara. I've been here since the very beginning (2016!), and I've seen a sharp decline in the concept of "The Community". It's really a bummer. But it didn't hurt me until I decided to redo my TacoCove map with RRS. I saw a swift uptick, then a sharp decline a couple weeks later, and I would argue that map is quite a high quality map. I was scratching my head why it wasn't featured better or at least a little more visible. Either way, it suffered and never really made any real visitor gains from when I had originally made it back int 2018! Definitely disappointing, and I think you hit all the right things here as what the underlying issue is. Algorithms are tough, but it doesn't take 7+ years to make a good one that properly serves the community and the creators behind it.
I've stopped giving feedback these days. I was much more passionate and vocal about changes, even pulled a "i'm leaving rec room" stunt to try and get awareness of how disruptive their sudden feature additions (or removals!) were to creators, and how they used creator contests as test beds for new features which severely crippled creators while trying desperatly to make their deadlines.
I don't know, I tend to use RR as a personal creative outlet these days. I'm always on, but rarely to do I show myself; like a RR Hermit. :/
Also I fully support doing a complete overhaul/refresh of the featured category. I STILL have hangout rooms listed in there, that have been up for years, and that's just not right. It's like Ducky's place and my lakehouse and then a couple others. They need to go in there and shake it up. There are so many better hangout spaces these days, my lakehouse looks quite basic these days...
This video comes out immediately after I quit creating on rec room and canceling my RR+ subscription and has been the first rec room video recommended to me.
I could never agree more with these points
As a Rec room builder I can say some of or all of these ideas are great since ive been a creator for 4y now and other problems i have spent hours on and creating maps but never really got noticed. Thank you for this video
As a room creator with my friends, like a build your own room, I really hate when Rec Room replaced the community board with the watch UI. Why would they do that?
yea I used to spend a ton of time doing circuits and made a fair bit of money off it but after a while I felt like RR was supporting the big creator groups like ink overflow and I left after that
Edit: RR also doesn't help independent creators when we don't get our money and as a result we feel kinda left in the dust
I stopped playing and creating rooms on RecRoom, One of many reasons are demotivating due to most rooms gets to have Studio in use, and a big margin of us without it are left behind with barely any visits, even though we put in multiple hours into our projects.
It's also sad to hear about how they deny access to new creative features due to the players past behaviors (Which can go back many years). So, that's why I quit..
I've started taking a break from Rec Room for a while now to play some other games I find fun. I do go online from time to time, but not very active right now.
The play tab lacking diversity is a really bad thing. Really wish it was more diverse, that would help a lot.
I agree!
As someone who just started really focusing on trying to build, I hate seeing all those copy paste clicker games, I have a friend who does that and makes bank, while i spend my time making a game for it to have 400 visits rec room needs to actually fix the recommended rooms because they are all just copy and paste clicker/simulator games. :/
I also do agree on adding big creators getting reward bubblies and other things, because achieving 100k+ visits is very tough.
I know a friend who relates to this he said he temporarily quit since of the contest and other things unnoticed.
Im so glad someone made this video, there's always the excitement of something new but slowly but surely they lose motivation to actually put work into it and it ends up being automated or being replaced with an 'algorithm' so recroom doesn't have to pay a human to change things around.
Hearing your voice break before you were going to cry made me lose hope. Hang in there!
I myself am a creator (I am not a big creator only 2k subs), and I did quit because of these problems I will admit I abused it until I realised what was happening and then I made good rooms and quit because I realised how hard it is for good quality rooms to grow. I miss old recroom and the joy I felt on the loading screen waiting to load in to my dorm. Now I just get on occasionally to say hi to friends. Anyways thank you Tara for this video!
I’m glad your one of the only big RR creators bringing these issues, since most don’t because they get paid by RR.
I think most don't because they're not that involved with the build community. I've never once heard another RecTuber say they won't speak up for fear of being paid via their video partner code. I don't think Rec Room takes codes from people who voice their opinion in a legit mature way.
@@Tarapeutic good point
I'm a quest player so I REALLY want a new quest or more originals in general! That is my only real problem, and not a bug one either! I still REALLY love the game, and I'm excited for its future!
SO... I am with you on everything you said and it's all very fair, you put it very perfectly communicating feelings that are happening in the creative community..... let's hope they do listen, and not continue to take what creative has held dear away from us. Hey RR Please give us some listen time, try a survey or something. Be our voice.... be our hero!
Im so glad bigger creators are calling out Rec Room on, not only their greed, but their worsening platform. Rec room is becoming non enjoyable and im sick of making rooms now, seeing as they stopped caring about their community. Rec room is not even looking at their players and want creators to raise the platform.
(It kind of reminds me of parents who make their kids raise their kids)
This is the worst. but I’m gonna try to continue working on maps until I finish all of the projects I have to make since I have so many good ideas for games that I really want to work on
I remember they did a snowman competition and I make 3 really cool snowman and not one was recognized. With really crushed my dreams but I saw some of the other that was in as well and kinda mad some of those didn't win
Im so tired of getting on rec room to play a GOOD game just to see "SkibidiToilet-RP-Sussy-HuggyWuggy-PoppyPlaytimeGrimace-Fun"...i miss the old games where you knew the creator actually had fun creating the game and put work into it, i also miss the invention tower, i remember me and my friends constantly pointing out amazing inventions we somehow didnt notice, we'd promise to check out all the floors we wanted to go to, but never did. when i noticed the invention tower was slowly forgetting to update i was starting to think that the creators just were tired or forgot to update everything. That was a year ago.. I feel like RecRoom is just slowly killing its community...
As a player turned creator, I'm really disappointed with how Rec Room has changed. When I joined in 2020, it was a great escape for me, just like many others. When I discovered the creator tools and practically spent all of 2021 learning the Maker Pen. but since then Rec Room's quality has vastly declined, and I've lost my interest, and I haven't made a new map in months. I'm not sure why I'm leaving this comment, but this video is very well made and I believe captures the disappointments in the Creator community right now. I hope Rec Room takes the time to fix the issues and bring back its former glory.
Also there has been an increase in quality looking games but there just cash grabs
6:11 That turkey is so cute!If I built that in half an hour I’d be proud of myself🦃🥹
aww thank you so much!!
Bring back the weeklys
Instead of doing three things make it 6 and make it so the community votes for which skin they want back, but also give an option for a whole new skin. Maybe if they want to make money off of it they could add a boost that removed on of the requirements, making it five things for 5,000 tokens or something.
This is just an idea by the way :3
Man, I wanna go back to RecRoom it’s been years. Also nice turkey!
I've been making skits for a short while. then rec room just got boring, school got more complex, So i just quit RR.
Everything you just said in this video is just like me talking to my friends we try so hard making fun maps and they just get no one at all this is really annoying me know
Basically, rec room just nerfed the whole builder system. I'm a builder and i have made some rooms, i actually put alot of effort into them. Then, nonsence games took over. I stopped playing rec room frequently since that happened.
Tara: No time making qualit-
Me: *pause* ive been working on a pvp game for 6 months, i can see why people wanna rush things tbh
Just got a question in 3:42 what is room name I want to check it out for my self
Ngl the issue i hate is the way RecRoom actual deaign of the rec center is dumb. I just wish theh put the community board closer or when you spawn in the rec center.
i promise to never quit! this is my alt but my main is VXXI RR and i justposted a recroom video!! i really wanna be a big rectuber so im gonna give it everything i've got. and I build alot and i've been making alot of maps i really hope they can get up there
Also they removed the weekly rewards
I almost quit making my game but i made the game with my friends it has 2000 likes very happy btw
Kinda reminds me of the robust balance roblox recently did 😂
its been a hot minute since i played rec room
Rec Room looks like they see creators as their future but most of the changes that have happened have only suppressed actual good maps and instead promoted some park with a couple inventions
My man
Yes, I literally went to one that was just park with a bunch of costumes and buggies and it was so heavily monetized. It was wild. That's when I knew there was a major issue haha!
Guys, we need to make a change on that, what can we do to fix it?
A suggestion I had was what if for games like paintball and laser tag they once every month select a map made by the community and put it in the RRO tab maybe the maker of the map gets paid a amount of items bought in that little gift shop and maybe in order to have a map qualify they would need to have the map be unique OR have a new weapon using CW2 Just imagine how could that could be and maybe once a year all the maps are selected for the vote and the winning map gets to stay
That's so true it makes me mad.
As a Rec Room builder who has been building for the better part of 4 years now, this brings it to the point really well. I commend you for making this
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I would love to hear your suggestions on ways Rec Room can improve! Let me know your thoughts in the comments!
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I love your vids if u have the time can I be In one of your vids
I liked this, it was just addressing the fact there have been way to many "Cash grabs" Aka clicker games also i have believe that there shouldnt be so many army/millitary games because theres way to many of them and there all just cash grabs taking up space in the new/hot tab
There are a lot of ways Rec room can improve in general, but I liked the point that one small rec room creator made on just how Rec room are trying their best. They have done so much for the game and they're trying to improve it so much. I just really appreciate all the Devs effort put into this game. Rec room will always be one of my favorite games.
More support for the the good rec room originals, such as a new map for make it to midnight and lasertag. IT NEEDS MORE MAPS.
For me, the thing that would bring me back to Rec Room would be if they just finally optimized the game and watch to run better. I don't really care about the items too much or much else, but when I can't even hang out with my friends without my game lagging a lot or crashing, it gets really annoying so I've mostly quit now.
I loved going to the invention store. All the change is rr killing itself and the community. What some players are doing to kill it is making copy and pasted type rooms on top as players being racist or being sexual towards another player.
true. my first few seconds in the rec room was someone kissing a bald guy on their head while speaking in a soft voice. i don’t wanna know what they were doing.
@@truckman3 quick, let’s make some more high effort rooms before it’s too late!
I made BloodyArenaPVP, we took under 3 hours to do
I teared up watching this. I was so lucky to start building when Invention Tower was all the rage. Getting my inventions both in the tower and featured was so confidence boosting to me that I grew to love building inventions each week to see which ones made it in. I met my best RecRoom friend Lady_Pearla in the tower as we shared that excitement and motivation each week. We would pop in there each time to excitedly watch everyone enjoying what we had created. After submissions stopped, we felt a bit lost. We spent the next months grasping at any event that allowed us to get featured like Contests, Rec Rocks, Rec Con, ect. and eventually just trying to motivate each other by setting our own build goals. We still have to struggle to keep up with the changes and this doesn't help out new creators either as many of them have no way to get recognized enough to justify spending time to build quality stuff. Thank you so much for making this video by the way. I really love your suggestions as I would love to see Invention Tower return or perhaps even bring featured inventions and dormskins back!
More reiterations of what other creators are feeling. It's a shame. I hope you continue building and that Rec Room makes some changes to bring back inspiration and creativity ❤
I cannot expalin how glad I am that Content Creators like you, make this kinds of videos. It breaks my heart looking back in the past and seeing how excited I used to be when creating maps and getting even just a bit of recognition, which helped me a lot. But realizing that they barely even care for us now, it makes me backup and think about leaving the community or keep going.
Me as one of the main creators who founded the Spanish Community on Rec Room, i´ve been fighting for my community to be featured even more, and I barely got anything from all the ideas I´ve gave to Rec Room. I hope this video is watched by some Rec Room Staff members and they reconsider working better along creators and its community. New subscriber!
My a new creator, do you have any tips?
I appreciate your feedback! And I'm sorry you're feeling ignored. I'm certain Rec Room is still going through growing pains on how to best approach all of these things. It's just tough at times to persevere whilst feeling like program after program gets cut. Sé fuerte ❤
this clickbaity thumbnail made me click even harder
hah! thank you. I fussed over it too much yesterday so I'm glad it turned out.
thank you for covering these topics and spreading the issues we face to your audience! it's a very stressful time to be a creator on this platform and all we can do is make sure our voices are heard.
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They should start off with bringing back weeklys
For sure!
I've been a active creator since 2019, I've participated in 9 contests, placing all the way from top 10 to top 1. Its amazing to see the high that was early 2021 for creators, discovering a amazing way to get paid for art, to the low that is now were art seems to be dead.
As a Rec Room builder and player since 2020, I feel like RR is kind of ruining itself. Ever since RR Studio, I have had so much trouble making games, and I have pretty much abandoned the game. Last I played was November of 2022. A whole year at this point. Im going to play again today, but i feel Rec Room is kinda ruined. ):
As a creator myself, I remember when I'd be able to pay rent for a time solely off of featured custom Shirts and Inventions and playing the game was not only fun but inspiring! Now playing it feels like I'm wasting time or I might be able to do this until I realize I'm wasting time
a few months ago for an honor/gifted project i decided to become one of those lazy recroom creators, and ended up making around 40,000 tokens before i shut it down. afterwards i donated it randos in the rec center, but it was still shocking because that was more than i had ever made in my 3 years of the game, and for something so lazy and stupid
6:09 that turkey is truly stunning
awww thanks!!
Featured inventions, Invention tower, and featured rooms MUST Come back! As a recroom creator with higher quality rooms, I understand exactly what you mean. Lower end rooms get tons of traction and higher quality rooms seem to be not even noticed.
Hopefully Tara will never quit… 😅
We never know..
Nah, I won't quit, don't worry!
I agree with this video A TON! Especially with the room rewards and the carousels.
I worked on a map “^PlanZeta-Imperfectum” for MONTHS and it is such a high quality action quest. I saw an obby get released at the same time and my quest stopped at 12.2k meanwhile this obby is over 100k.
It’s absolutely insane that all of my work has gone into the back end of Rec Room when I put soooo much time into that quest. It is absolutely insane.
This makes me wonder how many other games are pushed to the side like that.
I agree! I'm so sorry this happened to you! Your map was incredible and clearly a TON of effort and hard work went into it! ❤
Gosh this is just sad...
Im really upset, since emily waffles started working for rec room she dosent upload anything for her own channel. And its so sad. Im so happy for her, but miss her own videos!
Don't get me wrong, I still love Rec Room, and always will be grateful for all my experiences and good times there, but god this video really just represents the current downward decline of the game. They are no longer listening to their community in any capacity, proven even moreso by the fact they've hosted a singular AMA in the past year. I miss creating videos and playing the game, but it has become next to impossible to get myself to do so when every time I log on, things don't feel the same, the "Play" tab is honestly terrifying, and issues that have existed since I began playing almost 4 YEARS ago are still present. Thank you for this very insightful, and as always great video. As well as thank you for using your platform to speak up about everyone's discontent, as it will always be beneficial in the fight to be heard. Lots of love Tara!
I've mentioned this countless times, not specifically here, but in general. Rec Room, like many other game companies, prioritizes their profits over their fans. Instead of focusing on creating updates that fans would truly appreciate, it's like they are primarily concerned with how much money they're making.
you took the words basically out of my mouth. i was working on a super high detailed dorm skin when they suddenly decided to completely kill off the featured inventions and ink inc... it just sucks to see the very game ive been playing for so long every day just treat their community like this. also im happy you recorded in my room again! :D
Thats one of the reasons that I quit, getting my Co taken away from maps with thousands of likes and visits , while working so hard in it, And the prices of items going up so much
what map?
I will Never quit rec room for my channel When i reach 5k sub i will do a more Bot for a recbots for a rec con 2024 who asking me with DQও if i was a rec con booth the creator are ganna be happy about it i will Never give up 👍
sooo i have a on and off relationship with this game, usually after i stop playing the game for a few months il return and there will be some huge upgrades to the game! but i recently returned and WHEN DID THE WEEKLY GET REMOVED??? AND THE BOARD TOO??? i do believe i wont stick to rec room sadly even tho i the art style and social aspect of some of the games, hope they make some sort of change that makes me wanna return but i suppose for now ill only use it to record my avatar standing in front of a green screen doing random stuff or hang out with some friends.
I trara I love your videos and your have inspired me to become a rec room tuber and I have a question do you have any good editing software that are good for editing videos I hope your having a great day or afternoon keep up the great work
CAPCUT is a good free one! Any software is pretty much fine you just have to learn how to use it!
#2 was so true, my friend thecoolcapybara/thecapy arawhisperer made a quest called revenge of the king, and it’s so underrated that to play it I have to favorite it to play it regularly because everything is skibidi toilet, clicking sims, build scenes, and Roblox copies. It just isn’t fair tbh.
I 100% agree with all of the points that you made in this, and I also respect you so much for making it in the first place. As someone who also creates content on Rec Room, the only times I've actually gotten on Rec Room these past few months was for the monthly challenge, and to get footage and pictures for videos. While I'm happy that Rec Room at least decided to take action on the Roblox thumbnails, *which honestly bothered me the most since most of the Roblox thumbnails are just straight up stolen off of Google, which says a lot about how much work they actually put in the map,* I think there needs to be a lot more changes that Rec Room needs to implement in order to make Rec Room way more enjoyable again, and I also think that Rec Room needs to communicate way more with their audience when it comes to this.
Sorry for the long rant, anyway, good video lol
PREACH IT TARA!
I feel like genuine creators are being silenced!!
I do find it extremely annoying trying to find a game to play on Rec room. I got it on my Xbox back in 2021 but started playing alot more when I got my VR on Christmas 2023 and already extremely bored of it.
Hi tarapeutic, I saw this video and I feel really bad for all of the creators in the world who are just starting. I was also wondering if you could help me sponsor my Fnaf movie game when it comes out. If you can, please try to reply, and then I will reply back when it’s out.
4:03 from featured rooms, my friend got 200k visits on his contest room in 2021
11:05 im really sad invention tower got removed, i was in invention tower (and the reccenter) on april 1st 2022 and i made 100 thousand tokens and a ton of subscribers. it was really a great system
as a rec room creator that is currently growing and becoming more popular, I would love to have my games get more popular as I have made some good rooms, but they only manage to get low on the new tab, only raking in about 3k visits - 10k visits. I feel as if they are making it impossible to grow as none of the old things that used to work to promote your game work anymore, (idk why i wrote this)
I loved Invention tower as well... And when I saw that it hasn't been updated for three weeks, I ALMOST QUIT. You are in FLAMING HOT water, Rec Room. ) :
Tara: and the hood
Me: …I’ve never played that once in my life
I went there one time I think. It seemed kind of toxic and I left.
@@Tarapeutic ya it gets like that you just gotta find the chill people or bring your own friends ( if they play )
I have been a RR builder for 3+ years. This video made me realize why I have been feeling a lack of motivation in building rooms knowing that a "Skibidi Fun Land" map will get more visit and will profit more from the 50% more credit then any map I put days of work into.
Thanks for speaking up about this, hopefully this will be beneficial for Rec Room
thank you so much!! 😍
Great Video! Thanks for your heart to help us creators!
I've been making maps for free for the last 2 years because I want to create places for my friends and I to hangout in and bring entertainment to the Rec Room.
Maybe try building for the sake of creativity and building the community instead of money and notoriety.. You will be much happier when changes like this happen because it doesn't really affect you.
in your strawberry analogy, the strawberries would still be a discount from their original price
(S x 1.5) x 0.5 = 0.75 x S
a project i worked on for nearly half a year just gone down the drain because of the room algorithm :/
My custom shirt has been featured for a while sitting at the near bottom of the list. I even spend all of my tokens I get just to gift the less fortunate players who don’t know how to get tokens in the first place. I just wish they would bring back some of the rotations so more newer creators could get a chance in the spotlight.
hey tara! i do love how much passion you put into making this. i know you love this game and i love that you like the game so much that you cry abt it. dont be ashamed to cry over something you love.
thank you so much for the kind words ❤
No problem :)
i have a game called build-your-own-gorilla-tag-moments-in-forest thanksgiving update is out NOW!
Yea... all the maps on the hot tab are all og maps idc about anymore, clicker simulates, and random pvp maps that are boring. I also feel like recroom has gone down hill and has begun to get greedy.
Yea when i first started to see Crappy roblox clickers in the hot or new i fealt disapointed because some of my favorite games are ones of found in the new tab and that doesnt really happen anymore because its all just shi... crappy low effort games, i have to look for good games now but it used to be theres like alot of them in the new tab
I stopped playing and making videos because Rec Room is taking a huuuuuugggeee dump in quality and I'd prefer to not be there when it dies.
I miss when my life was good... Wait no, I had Covid all of 2020. (Lets just say 2021 instead.)
I’m so excited for full body in rec room it’s going to be so fun you will finally be able to walk around as a full on avatar instead of a bean with floating arms and head but I understand her pain and it does hurt especially if you have met people in the game and friends
Still going to like this game I’m addictive to it
Me too! I will always love Rec Room.
Thank you for putting the way we all have been feeling lately in to words. This sucks and it seems like recroom doesn't care how burned out the creative community is getting after they cancled or ruined anything designed to help creators. I have friends who have gone from being excited to show me a new map they worked hard on to being embarrassed to show me a low effort cash grab map they felt forced into.
I don't know if I like what recroom is becoming.
Yes, that's happened to me too, creators are just doing what they can, but unfortunately they've had to make things they're NOT proud of just to try and gain recognition. It's not healthy for the creative spirit at that point and they just suffer burnout. I appreciate your feedback!
Hey Three headed. I couldn't agree more .. glad she made this video too. Don't think it will change things though. You yourself worked so hard in RR and put out quality maps .. and get little to no recognition. I built maps too .. and got a couple featured proud to say .. but it would have been nice to get something from Coach even as a good job present for getting featured. Now I hear they did away with featured rooms as I was thinking of submitting one. Way to go RR
@@user-kaulua64 I know it’s really bad isn’t it
I make a skibidi toilet game (your gonna say cringe and u didnt) but it actually good other than games with free models (me saying free models because other games use free models but are game doesn’t use any models
I was number 194 to watch this and I feel like rec room has been ruined Also lots of random accounts that have been reported once for being under aged have been turned into an underage account
I haven’t played Rec room in a year and I’m surprised how much has Happened, I’m disappointed in rec room 😔
Been on both the youtuber and game dev side of this coin. You've basically said everything that's been on my mind as of the past few months lol.
Very well put. I agree with almost everything said. Especially the "my thoughts" section. I love rec room, but times have most certainly changed.
Thanks Magma! I appreciate it!
Rec Room is actually hiring ML engineers at this point in time which could mean them working on a new method for showing rooms to people
This was such a good video to watch. It literally made me sad aswell that they’ve ruined room rewards and loads of things. Rec Room really needs to do what u said because it’s just perfect. Thanks Tara.
Thank you for the positive feedback, Eevee!
Tara why does my rec room not work?
I NEED MY GOLDEN TROPHY 🏆
me as a creator. this stuff really sucks. i hope recroom fixes it or makes it better. also recroom needs to get rid of all of those cash grab games.
I recently started becoming a creator, not sure if I want to keep going now that I hear this
You should keep going! I have faith that things will improve for creators. It just takes people speaking up!
Ok 👌😶👍
I remeber playing amazing horror games there are still good ones but I see so little (mostly ignited games)
wow thanks for opening my eyes :) (being serious if it sounded sarcastic)
Wow, agreed on all counts, very wonderfully said.
-Zaxis
I haven’t played rec room in 10 months why am I watching this
I quit atleast 5-6 months ago I play from time to time but it’s not the same.
that turkey is very good especially you being new that's amazing!
awww thank you! I like googling '3d model' of whatever animal and that helps me a lot to figure it out.
makes sense@@Tarapeutic
Rec Room is great concept and platform that has so much potential to keep growing and being a leader in the industry. But, Instead of improving, innovating and listening to the users and creators, the company seems to be very stagnant and more interested in milking the current platform until they kill it rather than reinvesting in its growth and development. They continue to remove features that users like (like weekly challenges), they don't update maps of popular games (like rec royal or paintball), and they don't seem to have any interest in responding to obvious problems. I used to be able to jump on a game of RR squads or solos anytime, almost always running into my RR friends, but it takes forever to get a game started these days and MANY of my old RR friends have moved on to other platforms because they got bored. There are so many simple fixes and creative ideas that I've heard discussed but RR just keeps sliding backwards. A few suggestions: feature only good maps on the board so people don't feel like they're wasting their time trying some of them out, get creative with some of the popular maps so they are fun again - new maps, seasonal maps, new weapons, new placement of the weapons, etc. With rec room squads, and especially solos, require fewer people for the game to start - maybe every minute or two the number of players required drops so at least you know it's worth waiting in the lobby because eventually you will get to play. Is there actually somewhere within Rec Room to make suggestions?
Yes, you can give feedback via a Zendesk ticket I believe!
I agree about Rec Royale. Man it's SO FRUSTRATING to wait for the lobby to fill sometimes! You need what, 18 people for squads? And someone can be loading in then crash and it just breaks the entire lobby.