>>267221615
No, I think they, and by they I mean the actual people working there, not the higher ups, understand it fully, but they (the higher ups now) are willing to go for a more closed and centralized approach even if less successful, and then at some point open up if they need to, which they almost certainly will need to, but not anytime soon of course, as this isn't that immediately important yet and everything's still kind of this giant beta/experiment phase. 

For a VR only game Rec Room was doing pretty well. VRChat's kind of an exception, and also do we know how many are VR instead of pancake, and actively playing instead of, say sleeping or AFK in it? Anyway, I'd argue that the normalfags playing VRChat are not the normalfags you're thinking of. It's like the difference between normalfag weebs and non-weeb normalfags. There are a lot of the former and sure they're kind of normalfags, but they're also not really. Most actual normalfags aren't quite yet going to want to get VR and do the whole thing with the setup just to play as anime thots and party in VR, like that other anon said. They'd still rather do it IRL at this point, because they can and to them there's not really that big of a risk and expense of doing it IRL that VR would somehow provide that much more benefit. But more and more normalfags are slowly getting a VR headset for just general gaming and media, and a lot of them don't bother touching VRChat. Shit I never touched VRChat until some time into owning my headset and seeing there might be fun game stuff in it. And there are a lot of them who simply don't care about social VR but do care about multiplayer gaming, which VRChat doesn't primarily provide.