Ranking and Discovery.
It’s too much of a blanket suggestion for everyone who plays RecRoom instead of the suggestions being ‘for YOU’ suggestion. Imagine you go to Youtube on a new account or not signed in. Is the suggestions everywhere on the website after watching one video suddenly tailored to try to keep you playing more Youtube videos based on your watch history and the last video you watched? Yep… Where’s that on RecRoom?
I know a substantial amount of players are kids on RecRoom, teenagers have to see what’s popular for kids, and the smaller group of the creators on RecRoom have to see what IS popular for the majority of players on RecRoom. There’s no suggestions of what your friends have been playing a lot on, there’s no way to just ‘hide this room from the list for awhile’ so that it’s possible to see something new and fresh.
RecRoom is spending way too much time knowing what the majority of their players on RecRoom play. These players that see the so called ‘slop’ actually do intend to play rooms like that. Why not just keep giving what the kids want to the kids, the teens want to the teens, and the mature userbase, fresh good content. If a kid was to start playing some high quality room, start showing random suggestions about other high quality rooms. Don’t just show everyone the same results because a/b/c said it’s the highest engagement for kids.
RecRoom is too busy forcing us to look at lists they curate, instead of letting us curate the lists, hide rooms I don’t have favor in looking at, let some algorithm learn on ME not on everyone.