So as we all know people love talking bout how good SL is and all the perks about it bragging about how IMVU is lame or even saying SL is better yet they always seem to come crawling back to IMVU from time to time! Anyone else notice that any thoughts on that?????

im not sure what SL is honestly but i know i have left imvu and always came back now i leave for a week and im back the following week. i feel like it just short breaks

SL aka Second Life another platform with much better graphics and everything that people amongst the IMVU world always talks about. Yea I feel you I am just getting back to ImVU myself from a long break two months exactly and a lot has changed no doubt

what was lacking in SL that brought you back to vu?

i've never tried SL, ergo curious.

I only tried SL do to a chick i was dating at the time, I never was fully SL. I'm team Vu all the way all day. I would only get on SL for her, but I dont like the perks of it and its so hard to move around and difficult to do stuff as for as Vu is just more simpler.

SL is superior in nearly every way on a technical level, the day-to-day people also seem a little more measured and mature compared to VU; feels like the regulars VU used to have.

SL strength is also it's weakness though. There's a LOT going on and sometimes it's just a hassle. Shopping especially and inventory management is just a drag. I organize everything, but it's still a metric ton of lists and trying to actively find basic things, or specific things you're after when shopping is a nightmare.

At least with IMVU there's not only the instant-try ability of the shop with a free cam, but the fact it's very ease to shop via derivations. The search function isn't as good as it used to be, but I think it's no worse than SL's. SL pretty much boils down to finding a specific store/dev that does stuff you like. You have to physically shop to find the best stuff and it just takes a lot more time, as does the actual process of dressing up and making a look.

I had troubled finding a centralized easy to search shop.

SL is more expensive than vu tho...i've been told that u gotta spend real money if u wanna make a decent avi x.x soo uhh yeah....

It's true, but not that much different to VU. At least, not that different these days when the minimum spend for a lot of VU products is 750cr+ and there's quite a few devs pushing 950cr for the majority of their products. I guess the flip side is it's easier and cheaper overall to make a nice avi from the get-go on VU now than it was in 2010-15.

You get a lot more for your money on SL though, even if individual items cost more than a VU equivilent. Buying a single, normal price top can potentially have multiple colour/trim options and comes in multiple sizes. If you want the same top or bottoms in VU for different sizes or colours, you have to re-buy it for every single one. Overall SL works out much, much better value for what you buy and Lindens aren't a dead-end currency; you can genuinely make good real money with them or use stock market stuff to make it go further.

Also worth noting that you automatically save a metric ton of money, depending on how much variety you enjoy, when it comes to sizing, scale and utility on SL. Everything that you need scalers for on VU is completely free and integral on SL. Pose/position adjustments? Also free and integral. Even the number of poses, features and options you get with furniture. To a lesser extent rooms and visuals follow a similar effect. Want a night-time scenery with specific lighting? Completely free and customizable on SL; you don't need to buy or find specific rooms or things for it. Just more bang for your buck vs VU's current product pricing.

SL is second life? If so, then I choose IMVU.