VRChat Has Banned Mods

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VRChat has banned mods and implemented Easy Anti-Cheat in a move that has sent the game's community into a frenzy. The popular virtual reality social environment has been facing a huge amount of criticism along with being review-bombed on Steam as players protest the recent decision.

VRChat was first released in 2017 as a spiritual successor to virtual 3D social spaces such as IMVU andSecond Life. The game allows players to take the form of heavily customized avatars in virtual reality and participate in various activities in a social setting. Movie nights, comedy clubs, virtual raves, and all sorts of social activities are possible within the game's various player-made environments. The game saw a major increase in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic as more and more people turned to virtual reality for some semblance of a social life during the initial lockdowns that saw concert venues, nightclubs, and other social spaces closing their doors for months.

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Unfortunately, the developers recently made the disastrous decision to implement Easy Anti-Cheat, an anti-cheat service featured in many online games such as Elden Ring, Fortnite, and Halo: TheMaster Chief Collection. While Easy Anti-Cheat is ubiquitous in the gaming industry and utilized by hundreds of titles, online games with strong modding communities such as VRChat can suffer greatly from its presence. VRChat's reason for the change is reportedly due to the fact that «malicious modified clients allow users to attack and harass others, causing a huge amount of moderation issues.»

VRChat is well-known for amazing custom content from entire worlds to highly specific mods. Many now-banned VRChat mods