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by freemanon 734 days ago
Had they gone the route of open development, modder would have, and had been, developing a lot of functionality for the platform for free. Instead, they slapped Easy Anti-Cheat and killed the modding community.

Close walled platforms will always wither sooner or later. They had massive potential back in 2021, when VRChat felt like the start of a new internet. Instead of letting the communities flourish, they were tempted by VCs and their unsustainable business model.

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>Close walled platforms will always wither sooner or later.

There are just so, so many cases where this hasn't happened, and where walled gardens have thrived. And also many examples to the contrary, in which open platforms have failed.