Count Down To Shut Down OF Classic Or Is IMVU Completely Finished?

My thoughts are running along the lines of IMVU Classic is suffering the same fate as the 20 year old RedlightCenter AKA Utheverse. The program is so old it is limited in what the Devs can do to update. I can assure you that the newer versions of this game all fall flat. When I initially joined I signed on the newer version of game figuring come in with a clean slate. I hated it. Told support this mess is not ready for release to the public and quit the game. It was my friends that dragged me back to classic. I really liked it. Everything looked 3D  and I could find the dots without a version of me sitting or standing before I got there. I won't even address the spooky mannequins in the rooms. So maybe it's time for the PTB to say to us  This is all we can do with classic the program is to old to update further. Then we can be satisfied with them just keeping Classic running in good condition. I don't buy that 2D looking clothing furniture or rooms. When I see that colorless junk with no depth to it I pass it by at high speed. Sell that mess in a cartoon world because a cartoon is all it is. The selling point of all these game is being 3D. Lose the 3D effect and you lose the concept of making things appear real and that is your money maker.

The fact that IMVU Classic has not been shut down yet and still gets updates every couple months is proof that some folk working with IMVU have been smart enough to keep the doors open. 

I just wish they would focus more time and energy on Classic because the users of Classic are a major source of income and the backbone of IMVU. 

I am unsure how much IMVU can earn from the advertisers that spam the users who don't use Classic but it is probably enough to keep the site afloat if the Classic users left. Still they want both sources of income and this is why IMVU Classic won't be scrapped anytime soon.

I hope this simple logic offers some comfort to those whom are worried. 

Agreed...If IMVU gets rid of the Classic client, that will be the final deathblow for this website.it will be over.Its dying badly right now and that would be the final nail in the coffin for the website, and its a damn shame.Mobile is absolutely horrible, and no matter how much they try to con us and try to get us to that horrible desktop version they have now, we are not stupid...Desktop is  absolutely horrible as well.NEWSFLASH FOR YOU IMVU....WE HATE THE DESKTOP SO STOP FOCUSING ON THAT MESS BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GOING THERE AND NEVER WILL....WE WILL ALL LEAVE !!!! EVEN THOUGH YOU WILL NEVER LISTEN TO US, IF YOU WERE SMART AND ACTUALLY UPGRADED THE CLASSIC CLIENT AND PUT YOUR RESOURCES AND EFFORTS INTO FIXING THAT AND MAKING THAT YOUR MAIN FOCUS INSTEAD OF THE CRAP DESKTOP AND MOBILE VERSIONS,YOU WOULD ACTUALLY KEEP THE MEMBERS YOU HAVE NOW (THE LOYAL MEMBERS WHO ACTUALLY CARE AND SPEND MONEY ON YOUR WEBSITE) AND ALSO START PICKING UP NEW CUSTOMERS AND MEMBERS WHO WOULD BE EXCITED TO SEE AN IMPROVED CLASSIC CLIENT.YOU WOULD EVEN GET BACK OLD MEMBERS THAT YOU RAN OFF THE SITE AS WELL IF THEY SAW THAT..WE WOULD RATHER PAY FOR SOMETHING WE ENJOY INSTEAD OF THAT MESS YOU HAVE ON DESKTOP AND MOBILE.YOUR NUMBERS ARE STEADILY DROPPING EVERY SINGLE MONTH..CANT YOU SEE THAT??? WE ALL HAVE BEEN WARNING YOU WHAT YOU NEEDED TO DO AND YOU HAVE COMPLETELY IGNORED ALL OF US...THE CLASSIC CLIENT IS YOUR ONLY SAVIOR IF YOU DONT WANT TO END UP GOING OUT OF BUSINESS..YOU BETTER LISTEN TO US BEFORE ITS TOO LATE !!!!

This is the most valid thread I’ve come across in a while. I empathize with most, if not all of these points.

@MrNathanLadds   good point and IMVU must have listened because now when you try to buy credits they make you sign a license agreement that covers their butts from any possible liability  and protects them from class action lawsuits LOL

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I agree with what everyone said, IMVU only full of bugs and glitches now and nothing else I would advice and suggest all people to stop spending money and feeding IMVU money, that is the only way you can get things fixed, if they face loss in money only then they will listen to the users maybe, otherwise there is no chance.

I have stopped spending money on IMVU since long time and now i do peer review and spins to get promo credits, but even that is all glitchy and bugged, I have been on 100% accuracy in doing peer review ever since i am doing it and IMVU have took away my peer review option 3 times now then when they find out it's a mistake they gave it back and now yesterday there is an incorrect vote showing in my peer review history which i didn't even pass or vote for, it is an icon with a red nazi symbol I am sure many of you who do peer review have came across that icon and seen it, and i have always skipped any product which had that icon as soon as i see it, so there is no way i can get a product with that nazi symbol in my incorrect votes , but IMVU and whole peer review is so full of bugs and glitches that even now they got my peer review history showing all wrong and that nazi symbol icon is appearing in my incorrect votes which i never voted for , and IMVU now took away my peer review option once again for a mistake which their system made, they disable accounts falsely and even take away privileges falsely but never think to look at their faulty and buggy system and fix it.

this the nazi symbol the hate symbol yes same one that had got me banned from peer when i voted against the hate AI now and we all get punished for it have good day good luck I tried to report the issue and all i got was bunch of AI generated responses sad they took away phone support

I agree with what everyone said, IMVU only full of bugs and glitches now and nothing else I would advice and suggest all people to stop spending money and feeding IMVU money, that is the only way you can get things fixed, if they face loss in money only then they will listen to the users maybe, otherwise there is no chance.

I have stopped spending money on IMVU since long time and now i do peer review and spins to get promo credits, but even that is all glitchy and bugged, I have been on 100% accuracy in doing peer review ever since i am doing it and IMVU have took away my peer review option 3 times now then when they find out it's a mistake they gave it back and now yesterday there is an incorrect vote showing in my peer review history which i didn't even pass or vote for, it is an icon with a red nazi symbol I am sure many of you who do peer review have came across that icon and seen it, and i have always skipped any product which had that icon as soon as i see it, so there is no way i can get a product with that nazi symbol in my incorrect votes , but IMVU and whole peer review is so full of bugs and glitches that even now they got my peer review history showing all wrong and that nazi symbol icon is appearing in my incorrect votes which i never voted for , and IMVU now took away my peer review option once again for a mistake which their system made, they disable accounts falsely and even take away privileges falsely but never think to look at their faulty and buggy system and fix it.

I have been on imvu now for almost 19 years, almost 18 on my second attempt. I'm really upset about the idea of Classic being taken away from us in favor of Next. I have contributed a significant amount of money to this business and have done so for 19 years. Age verification was required when I first started signing up. Now there are kids running around, copying everything in shop, and it still passing in peer. We adults all paid for AP and we should have the right to things that are adult. I mean, why do we have ap? For clothes?  Images of rooms, furniture, or clothes with AP cannot be posted on the feed. We are given crumbs and are constrained. We now have to pay a subscription fee for AP+ in order to spend a ton of credits on a single, basic pose. Whoa, talk about being money-hungry, not giving a damn about your customers' inquiries, or figuring out how to fix classic instead of devoting all the time and energy to the AP. We complain all the time about things being fixed here, they dont because as earlier stated..... The app is getting all the attention.. So many ppl are asking for classic to remain, and if ppl want to go onto the app they can go. Dont take classic away, make it better.. Maybe the numbers will go back up, as of now everyone is leaving and going to Second Life. 

My radio by sony says restricted on the play console when i click on it,. I have bought other radio for people and they work but what happened to mine. Also i had just a reg voice in classic by the way and it disappeared the other day. I got one voice left that is too low in volume you cant hear it. The sex they treat us like kids and why because google has boundaries that cant be passed if they want to have the site on their search engines. They allow minor but i havent seen any of them, yet we are restricted as adults from saying certain words in our private chats if its not an ap room, which i think has to be public im not sure. I wont even go there with the inability to have bodily functions work correctly and show visuals to that effect in private settings between consenting adults.

If children are coming into adult scenes then its up to the parents to make sure their child stays within its boundaries for kids. The poses are so far off you dont even touch the other person when you kiss sometimes.

Or your face is smashed into theirs. I dont like the next version of this site and if classic goes so do I:)

@Susansdestiny I just tried to enter new bank information. There is no place to do it. After reading your post  I assume they will not renew or update members that are on Classic. If that is how they want to roll so be it. They need our money more then we need to spend it here.

more worse a few of us cant use their payment methods no more i cant buy vip no more no creditcard nothing just vip coins , if i try an message shows up this service isnt avalable at your region , i think as well they let the imvu classic fade out , i even understand this , but it would be nice but  it would be fair to inform the croud. on the other hand we computer users aware anyways the minority now no one cares if the rest of us disappears as well.   an friend of mine is at 3DXchat he told there is even more drama than here so ill see and wait more i cant do anyways...........................        

We do NOT want streaming or radios...we want to keep our mixes and the songs we chose and bought...Thats what makes each of us unique and individual..the different music tastes.....and how we put them in order and choose, etc.....and the ownership of them.Take that away and 90% of us will be gone...

I'm pretty sure I remember them declaring they'll only finally shut down Classic when the future Windows updates can no longer run it. Until then, they're trying to collect as much data from us as possible to see which features from classic are the most important to us, because not all of it is going to fit on these new programs.

I wonder if they make a new version that just aesthetically looks like classic's appearance, if that'll be enough for us, so the older veteran users don't have to figure out where things are and feel like a new user in a place they've always known. Took me time to get use to the new app, I like parts of it, but it doesn't run as well as Classic when I want to dress up my avatar in details, it's basically good for just new users who don't have a lot of time or patience to spend. Maybe this will influence them to keep things more simple as they grow here, who knows?

By the way, eventhough I have a lot of music, I'm happy about the radio streaming. Sorry to say, but I feel betrayed by the Sony company for the way they set their music program up on our Classic. Everytime a song I bought expires, I have to contact imvu customer support, they can't fix it, only give me a cr refund because Sony doesn't want to update. It's not right they don't post expiry dates and give customers the impression that buying a song from them is forever, like the rest of our products in a way. At least with radios we have a chance to control things better, just have to learn how to do it, i haven't bothered yet, but have been enjoying it when going to rooms or uploading to my own I found online.

@o0Anni0o..Agreed...If IMVU gets rid of the Classic client, that will be the final deathblow for this website.it will be over.Its dying badly right now and that would be the final nail in the coffin for the website, and its a damn shame.Mobile is absolutely horrible, and no matter how much they try to con us and try to get us to that horrible desktop version they have now, we are not stupid...Desktop is  absolutely horrible as well.NEWSFLASH FOR YOU IMVU....WE HATE THE DESKTOP SO STOP FOCUSING ON THAT MESS BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GOING THERE AND NEVER WILL....WE WILL ALL LEAVE !!!! EVEN THOUGH YOU WILL NEVER LISTEN TO US, IF YOU WERE SMART AND ACTUALLY UPGRADED THE CLASSIC CLIENT AND PUT YOUR RESOURCES AND EFFORTS INTO FIXING THAT AND MAKING THAT YOUR MAIN FOCUS INSTEAD OF THE CRAP DESKTOP AND MOBILE VERSIONS,YOU WOULD ACTUALLY KEEP THE MEMBERS YOU HAVE NOW (THE LOYAL MEMBERS WHO ACTUALLY CARE AND SPEND MONEY ON YOUR WEBSITE) AND ALSO START PICKING UP NEW CUSTOMERS AND MEMBERS WHO WOULD BE EXCITED TO SEE AN IMPROVED CLASSIC CLIENT.YOU WOULD EVEN GET BACK OLD MEMBERS THAT YOU RAN OFF THE SITE AS WELL IF THEY SAW THAT..WE WOULD RATHER PAY FOR SOMETHING WE ENJOY INSTEAD OF THAT MESS YOU HAVE ON DESKTOP AND MOBILE.YOUR NUMBERS ARE STEADILY DROPPING EVERY SINGLE MONTH..CANT YOU SEE THAT??? WE ALL HAVE BEEN WARNING YOU WHAT YOU NEEDED TO DO AND YOU HAVE COMPLETELY IGNORED ALL OF US...THE CLASSIC CLIENT IS YOUR ONLY SAVIOR IF YOU DONT WANT TO END UP GOING OUT OF BUSINESS..YOU BETTER LISTEN TO US BEFORE ITS TOO LATE !!!!

In 18 years I'am at IMVU now, they NEVER told the community about important changes they had in the head, why should they suddenly do it? I remember sooo many historys where things disapeared without being explained (very talented creators as well ^^) ....but finally, if IMVU really will shut down the classic client, I will definetely forget about IMVU, no way that I'll begin to use the desktop thing, it's just horrible and an insult to every smart people.