Note: the beginning of this is a HUGE rant! This was originally a message in the creator hub discord, so bare with me!
time for me to go on a rant rq!! recently ive been realizing that rec room really needs to step up their game. recently, another creator here at rec room, chomperling, and his friend nebulous, released Station-X! which, in my unbiased opinion, is one of the most fun rooms recently released! there is a huge issue, after a few weeks the room has only made around 60k tokens, with literal months of work i witnessed, and yet the cash grabs are still being put at the front of the play menu, in recommended, and even more places. it absolutely sucks. and some people may say “rec room has no control over it!” yes they do, and here is how i know. a while back, a room known as “MonkeyTag” or smth like that was featured by rec room themselves. and whats even better is that people still defended them, not many, as in this discord i saw lots of backlash, but still a decent few. and i’m honestly getting scared. recently, around a few months ago, i started work on a project known as AnUntitledShooterGame, and it has taken months of work, and i put out an open beta test a while ago and it was quite successful, the issue was it was being covered by horrible poppy playtime and skibidi toilet games on the new tab! so while those rooms gained thousands of visits in its first few days, i only gained 1.5k across a month and a half. it really makes me scared, as now im working on a Rooms 2.0 remaster with so many features planned (weapon progression, level progression, a campaign, different maps and gamemodes, a singleplayer gamemode, and a paid expansion to the campaign) and i feel like all those months of work will result in not even a cent earned, and this is a project very near and dear to my heart, and it hurts. in conclusion, rec room needs to step up their moderation on these horrible cash grab rooms and spread more light on the high quality ones. and i have a good way to do it! bring back the community board with a remaster called, creation center! this “creation center” would feature the main community board things such as photos, videos, and featured creations, along with up and coming quality rooms picked by a team of rec room moderators, along with the community itself! this will bring many new quality rooms to the table so rec room feels like a better social ugc platform, like they dream of! this is just a concept, i will come back to this with even more ideas, hoping to get a dev’s attention, and make rec room a better place for everyone!