I am posting this feedback in the hops that that IMVU always, always, keeps the Classic Client available to us older users and creators who actually use IMCU as a creative outlet rather than some dating site.
Next and Mobile do not have the quality or capability that the Classic Client has, and you cannot even use half of the products properly and on Next/Mobile, most of the products creators have poured their hearts into making do not even animate properly.
Everything works ~perfectly~ on the classic client, and I really think if the classic client were ever disabled, that it would drive away a huge portion of the users as many (if not most) old timers like myself still use it. Not only is the creator tools superior upon the Classic Client, everything from assembling rooms, to browser, to chatting, to exploring rooms is all completely superior on the Classic Client in comparison.
I hope, if they value onsider making a 64 bit version of the Classic Client to keep it working exactly as it is, or at least keep support for the original 32 bit Classic Client so it may be available to us users who value it. It would actually be completely detrimental to my mental health (And that of others) if it were ever to disappear.
I hope IMVU will consider this feedback deeply, and I'm sure they must have ways to see the traffic the classic client still gets from us nerdy 30 year old people who use IMVU as a world-building tool for stories and roleplays rather than a dating chat website for your everyday normie.
I've provided a side-by-side of the crispness of the Classic animation standards, and how Next is blurry, and nowhere near the same quality especially for the money it costs to build lovely avatars.
Example from Classic: Example from Next:
Reddit poll showing Classic is preferred and favored:
Please note the following:
On Classic, you can make out every lovely detail of the products, even though it is all black. It is able to be easily seen and rendered.
On Next desktop, it is so dark and undefined you cannot make out any details at all and it is so unbearably blurry.
I hope you will take this feedback and escalate it to the proper teams and consider keeping the classic client, for the day it is ever taken away would be an extremely dark one for all who would suddenly be missing an essential tool for their mental health to live in a world that brings us comfort rather than the chaos we all have to deal with on the outside.
I hope this feedback is valued, and thank you so kindly for your time and for IMVU in general for saving my life when I was a teenager by giving me somewhere to call home where people accepted me.
-Rayiven
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JanXuanposted
21 days ago
It would be a good idea to make the desktop/Next work like the classic client. Unfortunately IMVU won't be able to keep the classic client running when Microsoft ends support for 32 bits applications, because that is what the Classic client is. 32 bits. Is Windows ceases to support 32 bits, there is unfortunately nothing that IMVU can do but improve the dektop, but as they are doing now, I feel like that is never going to happen. The Classic client will eventually die, and with it my avatar will die.
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BlaqueJaqueShellaqposted
about 1 month ago
Editing is easier in the client and I've noticed on mobile that "Shared Rooms & Our Room" not displayed and a lack of mobility in large rooms, like being able to click to a distant area in the client but unable to do the same in mobile
So, hoping that corporate greed won't make them ditch the client cause I believe that's what's in play in not making Platinum VIP (Going by room count) the same level as Legacy VIP instead of having to purchase 2 VIP subscriptions
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Kuviposted
about 2 months ago
I totally agree with this. For me I can't for the life of me get use to this imvu next on mobile/desktop and I don't think I ever will. I really don't care about how many upgrades it gets etc I still don't like it. Nothing compares to the imvu classic client and I would want it to last forever. It sucks we can't get a 64 bit classic client but it is what it is I guess. At least the classic client is still around for us client users to enjoy for the time being.
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Mowjiposted
2 months ago
I agree. There is a feature of Next I like: seeing the pose itself before you decide to land on it. I am a decorator at heart and the feature how to handle furniture in Next is something to get used to. That feature sucked in the beginning, but last time I checked Next, I noticed the changes.
The mobile system.. I only use it to chat with my IMVU spouse when I'm not near a computer, send messages and the rewards feature when I log in. It's nice that I can do that BUT for shopping, decorating and dressing up it's an abomination.
I still use Classic as my main. Mostly because dressing up is so much easier in the Classic version. I have several female items that I can use with a male avatar. How ever, in Next I'm unable to select it.
In Next and in the mobile system I don't even recognize my own products, let alone those products I bought.
I am not able to go back to the deriveble product a product is derrived from in the none Classic systems.
The list goes on and on.
Why can't IMVU listen to the features we like in each system and starts building one from scratch, matching our preferences? I have the feeling that Next and Mobile are rushed systems. Rushed to get it out in the open as soon as possible. And us, the users are the unpaid field testers.
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Rayivenposted
2 months ago
We need an edit feature, as more feedback. Lol.
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Rayivenposted
2 months ago
Goodness, IMVU* in the beginning as well. I need more coffee.
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Rayivenposted
2 months ago
Hopes* not hops in the beginning. Apologies for any typos.
Next and Mobile do not have the quality or capability that the Classic Client has, and you cannot even use half of the products properly and on Next/Mobile, most of the products creators have poured their hearts into making do not even animate properly.
Everything works ~perfectly~ on the classic client, and I really think if the classic client were ever disabled, that it would drive away a huge portion of the users as many (if not most) old timers like myself still use it. Not only is the creator tools superior upon the Classic Client, everything from assembling rooms, to browser, to chatting, to exploring rooms is all completely superior on the Classic Client in comparison.
I've provided a side-by-side of the crispness of the Classic animation standards, and how Next is blurry, and nowhere near the same quality especially for the money it costs to build lovely avatars.
Example from Classic:
Example from Next:
Reddit poll showing Classic is preferred and favored:On Classic, you can make out every lovely detail of the products, even though it is all black. It is able to be easily seen and rendered.
On Next desktop, it is so dark and undefined you cannot make out any details at all and it is so unbearably blurry.
I hope you will take this feedback and escalate it to the proper teams and consider keeping the classic client, for the day it is ever taken away would be an extremely dark one for all who would suddenly be missing an essential tool for their mental health to live in a world that brings us comfort rather than the chaos we all have to deal with on the outside.
-Rayiven
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7 Comments
JanXuan posted 21 days ago
It would be a good idea to make the desktop/Next work like the classic client. Unfortunately IMVU won't be able to keep the classic client running when Microsoft ends support for 32 bits applications, because that is what the Classic client is. 32 bits. Is Windows ceases to support 32 bits, there is unfortunately nothing that IMVU can do but improve the dektop, but as they are doing now, I feel like that is never going to happen. The Classic client will eventually die, and with it my avatar will die.
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BlaqueJaqueShellaq posted about 1 month ago
Editing is easier in the client and I've noticed on mobile that "Shared Rooms & Our Room" not displayed and a lack of mobility in large rooms, like being able to click to a distant area in the client but unable to do the same in mobile
So, hoping that corporate greed won't make them ditch the client cause I believe that's what's in play in not making Platinum VIP (Going by room count) the same level as Legacy VIP instead of having to purchase 2 VIP subscriptions
2 Votes
Kuvi posted about 2 months ago
I totally agree with this. For me I can't for the life of me get use to this imvu next on mobile/desktop and I don't think I ever will. I really don't care about how many upgrades it gets etc I still don't like it. Nothing compares to the imvu classic client and I would want it to last forever. It sucks we can't get a 64 bit classic client but it is what it is I guess. At least the classic client is still around for us client users to enjoy for the time being.
2 Votes
Mowji posted 2 months ago
I agree. There is a feature of Next I like: seeing the pose itself before you decide to land on it. I am a decorator at heart and the feature how to handle furniture in Next is something to get used to. That feature sucked in the beginning, but last time I checked Next, I noticed the changes.
The mobile system.. I only use it to chat with my IMVU spouse when I'm not near a computer, send messages and the rewards feature when I log in. It's nice that I can do that BUT for shopping, decorating and dressing up it's an abomination.
I still use Classic as my main. Mostly because dressing up is so much easier in the Classic version. I have several female items that I can use with a male avatar. How ever, in Next I'm unable to select it.
In Next and in the mobile system I don't even recognize my own products, let alone those products I bought.
I am not able to go back to the deriveble product a product is derrived from in the none Classic systems.
The list goes on and on.
Why can't IMVU listen to the features we like in each system and starts building one from scratch, matching our preferences? I have the feeling that Next and Mobile are rushed systems. Rushed to get it out in the open as soon as possible. And us, the users are the unpaid field testers.
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Rayiven posted 2 months ago
We need an edit feature, as more feedback. Lol.
2 Votes
Rayiven posted 2 months ago
Goodness, IMVU* in the beginning as well. I need more coffee.
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Rayiven posted 2 months ago
Hopes* not hops in the beginning. Apologies for any typos.
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