Kira B.

I have been on this platform for sixteen trying years. The program was good (at first) when it was new. Hence - new. Now that there are several different platforms like it you can see how dated it is. Lots of people dont know that this was not a mobile app before, it was for PC. In its infancy it was fun, but the owners of the program are lazy, greedy, and absolutely shameless. I have seen moderators grief users, appear in their rooms and entice people, and ban people for completely arbitrary reasons. On top of that the program software hasnt seen so much as even an attempt (as weak as they were when they tried) to actually improve the software. Some people say its better then secondlife, only as far as how far your credits (compared to linden) will take you; or with how easy the interface is to understand. But its only easier to understand due to how excruciatingly primitive it is. Secondlife absolutely -HUMILIATES- this program. I have been a user since its beta, and from what must have been 2007-2008, we are still stiff, lifeless avatars, clicking dots to poof around on poorly rendered furniture. Meanwhile secondlife is flying, walking, riding bikes, etc. I recently checked in and was in financial hardship so I asked about selling my account. No clue that doing such was considered against terms. I was banned (no overexaggeration) in less than 5 minutes. No warning, no message, no correspondence. Just perma banned on the spot. 16 years. COUNTLESS dollars put on the account and time spent. Over 100,000 credits still on the account, no other problems violating terms even once in the entire 16 years and I get perma-banned just for stating I had intentions to sale my account, as if every time you log in there are terms of service to remind you of this over the course of 16 year tenure. Now I've put in a help ticket on a new account to request the decision be overturned and you guessed it; I have to deal with that absolute garbage customer service that they call themselves "providing". If you dont spend even more money buying the absolutely useless VIP sub - you will get non-existent support, bots if you do have it. But let me make you aware of whats worse. Crazy thing is, they insta-banned me for just this. But there are TONS of pedofiles, child groomers, and other sick people on the site walking free all the time. Priorities - are definitely not in order.

Features have been cut since prior releases and updates. Standard membership you only get one room slot, have to buy the creator program, certain features to keep track of friends are pay-walled, things as simple as seeing who in the room is a moderator, being in multiple rooms at once, having multiple rooms, and even changing outfits or parts of an outfit on the fly - are either paywalled, stripped from more recent updates, or entirely missing for mobile users. And it doesnt help that they falsely advertise on several different websites. Whether as a romantic connections website, dating network, or a video game, imvu is none of these things. Its simply virtual chat software with a dress-up avatar to match. But the company is so absolutely greedy and lazy that I have watched over the years as a website that I know and love loses all of its passion, effort, and novelty to cheap, shameless materialistic greed to the point that I see the community becoming less and less quality due to the app being advertised as a glorified pseudo-instagram mobile app...ridiculous and embarrassing. I used to reccommend this website to so many people, hell - Im probably responsible for alot of high numbers of long time members due to the Roleplay/writing scene it used to have. But now days? Its one of the laziest, lowest quality, most toxic programs you could ever waste your time and money on. Trust me. Bear through the learning curve and be patient enough to just go to secondlife or migrate over if you are still on imvu.