Well, I've told some people that I've been on IMVU for years and as time went on I've been getting more and more disappointed with them. And now it's hit an all time low for them, which makes it disappointing since IMVU now owns FurAffinity techincally.

When I first joined IMVU, while we did not have rooms you could customize as in put furniture or whatever into and no furniture for the rooms period. But we had unrestricted items for our avatars, including adult items, such as having an item that allows you to have an erect penis should you need it for a roleplay you're doing on IMVU, because that's part of the fun.

Well, eventually they banned such adult items without giving a reason as to why. I suspect that it since there were a few kids under the age of 18 using their parents' credit cards to buy the Access Pass from IMVU, which was the only thing keeping people from seeing adult content on there, that the parents, once they found out about what their kids was seeing, complained to IMVU. And IMVU, instead of doing the smart thing and disabling the kid's AP rights until they were of age or even taking the AP away and refunding the parents, they removed the content the parents were complaining about, reducing the items for honest AP users, making the AP catalog go from X to more of a R rating... Later on like a year after customizeable rooms were given to us, they remove the ability for us to have any wall pictures in our rooms that displayed any type of sexual activity, so now the AP catalog went from R to more like PG-13... We keep going like this and there won't be an AP catalog at all!

That's not the issue right now, but that's just the start of the overall disappointment with IMVU...

There's also been cases of hackers and spammers advertising fake sites meant to steal your account plaguing IMVU as well, and it seems that they haven't really taken any action towards these. I even had to kick an admitted hacker out of a public room because he started talking disrespectfully of people and threatening to steal accounts of those in the room that didn't side with him. Then he had to bitch at me on two accounts that he stole, both of which I flagged, because while it sucks that the original owners lost them, they no longer had control over them, and if they were like me, they'd prefer the accounts be closed than in the hands of some arrogant asshole.

But the recent thing, which is the last straw, is that an IMVU friend of one of my friends had an account stolen from her by a hacker. The hacker started using the account as a credit mule, using a credit card he apparently stole from someone else, to buy and store credits on this IMVU account he just stole. The friend contacts IMVU about it and IMVU locks the hacker out of the account, which is all well and good, but here comes the kicker... They offer to help the friend regain her account... if they pay them for it... $150 for what the hacker put on the account and $100 for an "account recovery fee", meaning they expect the friend to pay them $250 to return their own account back to them... What... the... fuck, IMVU! Have you become so greedy that you had to do such a shitty business practice as this?

And not only that, new users in the past used to get free public room slots, some customizeable rooms, and scene rooms to chat in. Apparently that's no longer the case. IMVU is providing less to the users and expecting more from them... At this point I'm about ready to just tell all my friends what's going on, recommending they abandon IMVU, and leaving IMVU for good myself! Ugh!