Stronger Separation Between GA and AP in Private Rooms

This update is an absolute disaster. As a long-time AP user, I feel like I’m being punished for supporting the platform financially. We are the backbone of IMVU, yet we are the ones being restricted and 'caged' in our own private spaces. This isn't protection; it’s a systematic destruction of the social experience.

The logic behind this 'hard-block' is fundamentally broken. By removing the 'shimmer' effect, you are killing the social dynamic that defines this platform. We are now forced to choose between our identity (our purchased inventory) and our social circles. Beyond the social isolation, this update effectively destroys years of creative investment.

Many of us have spent countless hours and thousands of credits meticulously decorating GA-labeled private rooms. We now face an impossible choice: abandon our hard work or strip our avatars of the items we legally purchased just to enter our own homes. To make matters worse, there is no functional way to upgrade an existing private room from GA to AP without jumping through broken hoops that risk destroying the entire layout.

You are locking us out of our own designs. Private rooms are our personal domains. Dictating what we wear in our homes and refusing a viable migration path for room ratings is a failure in both technical design and customer respect. We need a revert or a real solution that doesn't treat paying adults like a problem to be hidden away. Stop treating your most loyal supporters as a liability.

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I'm on classic client and don't see any of that mess you are talking about with shimmer or whatever. If the new platforms have that then fix the new platforms. Don't punish EVERYONE for the mistakes of your devs. The update is ridiculous and an exaggeration of the issue. I should not be told how to dress in my own rooms whether private or personal. Why not use the same filtering technique used previously on client? It showed a green midsection and forest green shorts to every Ap outfit viewed by a GA user. Worked just fine for years. Just because someone messed up with that "shimmer" mess does not mean you rework the whole system. Just rework the stupid shimmer. I have lots of friends who have left IMVU for other apps. While IMVU has the bulk of my investment, it's hard to support the growth of a service that tends to cripple its main money machine - adults. This update should be rolled back to old and that shimmer should instead be fixed or changed. Although you have kids on this app your profit is from adults. Separate the kids PLEASE but don't cripple the adults by adding us into that "shimmer" crap. Fix the damn "shimmer" smh that seems like an easier thing to do. Ok I am repeating myself lol. I'm f'n frustrated asf. DO BETTER IMVU

I must agree with those that have commented before me. The censorship is getting absolutely ridiculous. We understand that children exist on the platform, and the importance of protecting them. However, its unreasonable and illogical to censor AP users in this manner. The adult users are literally the reason IMVU exists in the first place, because ADULT USERS ARE THE ONES PAYING THE MONEY! We continuously get smacked in the face each update by something new and foolish to censor! WHY have we VERIFIED OUR IDENTITIES + AGES, purchased VIP, AP, and AP+ to STILL NOT GET TO BE ADULTS??????!!!! On the internet and in the real world there will, unfortunately, ALWAYS be weird, predatory behavior! I will never ever condone that behavior, but IMVU is going to have to grow up and be realistic OR lose most of your loyal users/customers! I have been here for almost 18 years, and this is by far one of the most unthought-out updates to date!!! PLEASE ROLL THIS BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS!!!

This update has gone beyond reasonable. Even messages are censored for content. We cannot hold adult conversations and now in my own rooms I cannot enter or entertain however I want due to room classification or outfit? These are MY rooms I have open for my friends. Our outfits used to be cloaked from GA users. Why not just fix that rather than to tell me how I should present myself in my own room. Also, you have age verifications etc, if I am speaking with another AP person through messages my words should not be censored. It's away from public view and its a private and personal convo. Also, if someone is so offended by the few people who linger in their own rooms in AP, they could easily exit not dictate how i use MY room that I spend money to keep ajar for my friends to enter. This update is f'n up the chat dynamics and going overboard with the agendas of a few. IMVU is really encouraging me to cancel my VIP and look elsewhere . It's bad enough we are getting censored in the real world , but now in virtual? There are so many other ways of dealing with an issue rather than punishing an entire community. The ADULTS are the ones who spend money. Not kids. Adults. If we cannot be treated as adults the why even stay?I really hope you swap things back to normal and fix that glimmer crap instead. You gonna censor me for using the word "crap" instead of the alternative? Grow up!

I'm writing again since you changed everything. It's been days. I don't feel like wearing AP. It's unnerving to change the settings of my rooms based on how I dress and, above all, to constantly change and save my clothes. I'm no longer buying products. I've lost the desire. In September, my VIP membership will expire. I won't do it anymore since you decide what to do in my rooms.

Now I have to comment again on what I’ve observed since the “CHANGE.” We have friends (even if there are only two of them) who don’t have an AP. They’re now being excluded because hardly anyone is walking around without an AP anymore. Some even wear AP on their skin… or in their hair… which makes me wonder why this is the case, and why some APs are lit up?? We were on a server that was associated with the biggest chaos I’ve experienced in 14 years. Everything was fine before, and I never experienced, saw, or heard any complaints. Why is everything getting worse instead of better? See also the review!!! 

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You really went way toooo far with this... I'm so annoyed.

-- I seldom wear AP stuff but it's still irritating that I can't swim nude in the pool of my room which was marked GA by the developer. 

-- MVU should roll back this new restriction; especially since GA users weren't ever able to see AP products. 

-- This new restriction serves no practical function unless provoking and annoying AP users is now considered a necessity.

Major bug since the update. I've had AP access for a long time, and since the update, I can't put my AP outfits in an AP room on classic IMVU. But when I log into IMVU Next, everything works.

Szkoda gadac poprostu porazka i  kazdy zastanawia sie czy nie usunac tui konta, przeniesc sie na inny portal który technicznie  o cała galaktyke Was  wyprzedza.No i jest tam wolnosc kazdy moze  decydowac jak chce sie bawic tu niestety juz nie

Wielkie nieporozumienie chyba, poprostu zniechecacie ludzi ktorzy tu zainwestowali nie  maŁ  realne PIENIAdze . Sa platwormy o wiele bardziej technicznie rozwiniete ale  gracze invu widacc sa lojalni co im nie wyszło na zdrowie. Totalny brak logiki, poprostu jestescie na ta chwile nie atrakcyjni i to juz jest zabawa dla dzieic nie dla doroslych. Jka widac kjreatorów tez daliscie rade zniechecic. Ogólnie wielka klapa.;(((

This update seems extremely frustrating; it is obvious that these rules were designed to force users to purchase AP+. If they aren't removed, many people will leave IMVU and find another game.

E una assurdita' portate la gente ad andarsene da imvu va sempre peggio costringendo la gente che paga per vip e obbligando  a fare tutte stanza ap ..no non piace questo . gia molta gente se ne e andata e sono rimasti 4 gatti ora rimarranno in due 

With all due respect to the platform—which it certainly deserves—you aren't taking into account those of us who invested credits in AP items. Now, we simply can't sit in our own GA rooms while wearing AP clothing. We would really appreciate it if IMVU went back to the way it was before this update. Thank you.