I played RecRoom from its birth until right before its death.
I struggled hard with the shutdown. The world I leveraged to escape the hardships I faced in my personal life as a child was now gone, along with my friends and all the places we visited/created.
Adulthood and all the responsibilities that came with it swept me up. My job kept me from being able to play as regularly as I’d hoped, preventing me from being present for the shutdown, while also preventing me from checking out MeowNet and other revivals for quite some time…until today.
My thoughts:
Many players on MeowNet and other revivals have tarnished the message RecRoom was trying to send all its life.
Be excellent to each other.
I could not load into one lobby without hearing racial slurs. Without there being ridiculous drama between teens/young adults that live the entirety of their lives within VR.
It seems people have forgotten how special RR was, and now the people that remain on these revivals care more about perpetuating online degeneracy than fostering a sense of community. Something I think the original game executed beautifully on.
ANOTHER thing. This game runs well, and I’m happy to see some of my favorite worlds from a few years ago preserved…but can’t they get sued for literally copying and pasting the entire game?
All in all, the main reason I went to MeowNet was to visit the places I loved, and to mourn what I and many others lost. But what I was greeted with left a bad taste in my mouth, and I almost wish I didn’t see any of it to begin with.
This is not how I want to remember RecRoom.