I understand that this announcement will come hard for a lot of people, but I believe that this change is important for the growth of both VRChat and emmVRC. They are doing some very neat things, such as the major Udon networking update, but these features take a lot of time and resources to implement, and without the support of their users, they wouldn’t be able to sustain the platform like this. They need your support as much as we do, and we don’t want to impede on their ability to expand and improve the platform. For new favorites though, we want you to support VRChat. Your existing favorites will be untouched, and search will be completely unaffected.
In emmVRC v2.9.0 and onward, to add more avatars to your emmVRC Favorites, you will be required to have an active VRChat Plus subscription. What this means, is that we are making a major change. This has been a long and hard decision to make, but we are not going to step on VRChat any longer, especially when we want the platform to improve as much as they do. They’re trying to expand and improve on the platform, and they need the support of their users in order to do so. But VRChat needs that support as much as we do. A lot of people use emmVRC for that last feature, making the first two less appealing, and so many people don’t want to pay for VRChat Plus. VRChat asks for $10 a month for three main features (at the time of writing): Profile Pictures, Invite Photos, and 75 extra avatar slots. They may have received investment money, but that doesn’t last forever, especially with such a fast-growing platform as VRChat. emmVRC costs money to run, but VRChat costs even more. This message comes from our Discord server: