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It is beyond regular chat rooms and voice calls, because you can look the people you're talking to in the eyes and that really sells it. The games and other things aren't what the "game" is built around, but they're good enough to be fun for a little while. It is also possibly the largest tavern known to man, with more drunk people inside it than any bar on the planet right now, and the drinks are as expensive or as cheap as your poison of choice at the liquor store. It's done a great job training my autist self to be at least sociable, and good thing too, because I've no other real outlets for social interaction. In the end, the time you spend on VRChat will be as good as the people you spend it with, plus or minus how you enjoy the worlds people create. There's some good people in public worlds. Takes hours to find them, but they exist. If you don't want to bother with that search, the /vrg/ meetup is friendlier in the VRflesh than the thread would have you believe. If nothing else, it's free and little good reason to not give it a shot.
t. over 1000 hours