I agree with you. The experience of creating the avatar was fun and the spaces are very interesting but the conversations, from what I have seen are very superficial. Most of the characters I was paired with seemed very young. They were nice... kids. I kept asking questions and got monosyllabic answers or IM "words" that I were unfamiliar. Lol, wow did I ever feel my age. In any case the graphics are fun and perhaps if I spent more time trying to figure out the ins and outs of the program I might enjoy it more, I have no intention of spending money on a virtual world, regardless of how cool it looks, especially when the real one has so much to offer. By the way, I think there is a way to "filter" by age group, although I am not sure how many people in this virtual world are acutally the age they say they are... still worth checking out even if only as a novelty.

this is bad i dont know what to do

IMVU has been in "public BETA" for nearly a half decade. I joined two years ago and ran into some of my friends who were professional developers. They wanted to know why I refused to develop for IMVU. My reply was simple: I know a two-bit con when I see one. IMVU's greatly improved over the past two years, aside from the fact that all of the great developers they had have left. At least they know how to hire a CEO who's running through the their capital like it was water. Heck, the three investors can use the write-off. A recent update now locks directly into the Windows Vista kernel which takes some doing on their programmers' parts; not much doing, mind you ~ it's a lame hack ~ but still, it's just like everything else we've seen them do over the past two years: just this a smidgen on the right side of CA statute. I cannot recommend any of our readers downloading a program which in almost five years of BETA best improvement is a hook directly into your Vista kernel. Don't believe me ~ run a great software firewall like the paid version of Zone Alarm or the free version of Comodo Firewall Pro and it'll tell *most* of what you need to know. You might as well phone IMVU, give them your SS# and bank account number etc and beg them to steal everything confidential in your life, let alone just your computer system. I give them another six months (post-tax season) maximum before their investors shut them down once and for good.

i love imvu its very fun and i get to met new frends

it seems like a pretty bad game. (comment #2 says it locks directly into vista kernal :O (VERY bad)

This is a great Chat system and for those who love to work with any Photo editing program to be able to show off they're creativity.

been on imvu for over a year the latest version 415 is not worth installing as lack of info how to use down draded back to 414 if music stor not work im takin products ot of cattalog an deleating account

IMVU was fun at the start, but once you see how the corporation rips off developers and paying customers, the fun drains away pretty quickly. Most everyone I know who got into IMVU were unpleasantly surprised by various switcheroos once they began paying for various IMVU "passes" -- If you are going to use IMVU, don't spend money on it. IMVU is more of a poor imitation of Second Life. It's only good point is that it's playable on low end computers, and the home pages are cute. For people interested in content, if you have a computer that can handle it, try Second Life instead. SL has it's problems too, but on the not getting ripped off side it's a bit better than IMVU.

This review is based on over 4 years experience with IMVU Inc. My standing with IMVU is as a developer, customer, and parent. The most recent activity I have viewed that impacts all levels of my experience as a user is what I will review here.

The sheer amount of neglect and direct disregard for their users needs is only surpassed by the incredibly disconcerting customer service. I have logged customer support requests for several reasons and some have yet to be responded to. There are three still pending from two years ago. One more recent customer service request I made was in regards to their Daily Outfit Challenge in which a naked avatar was on the second page. It took 6 weeks for them to respond and the only comment made to me regarding the matter was that it was being looked into. Six weeks is a great deal of time for small children to view such nudity.

IMVU claims to be in Beta yet has been open to the public for more than 5 years. This is a clear misrepresentation to avoid potential charges by users in regard to their false claims pertaining to their services.

Recently, November 2009, IMVU imposed a fraudulent program without notifying any of their user base as to the intentions they had. They added products, which they chose from their business partners, and propagated them to wishlists of those users that had no products on their lists. They hid this fact from the users to prevent them from removing the said business partners products. Many users purchased these items with IMVU Credits, the IMVU virtual currency which is purchased with real world money, for friends and relatives not realizing that the user did not wish to own those products as the wishlist indicated that the user had chosen the items.

This was a deliberate action as they indicated 4 days after the fact that it was an intentional move to 'avoid anyone not having a wishlist'. The products are poorly made and several of the products on the list are NOT general audience as they go against the very Virtual Goods Policy that IMVU claims to enforce. There was no way to contact anyone at IMVU Inc. as they implemented this program on a weekend, which most of these types of things they do, so that nothing could be dealt with until the following week. This is a consistent method that IMVU Inc. uses to ensure that they receive at least a few days of monetary income from programs they know will upset their users.

These products have now been forced to a new location with a tag that states they are recommended by IMVU, however, they have not removed the products that violate their own Virtual Goods Policy.

To add to this issue, only specific products are on this list and not rotated between the hundreds of other developers on the IMVU website which create content for them. This is a corporate monopoly which misrepresents the goods available in the product catalogue. These products can also be purchased repeatedly as, although the product may already be in the inventory of the user it was purchased for it is replaced repeatedly until the recipient added other products to their list. Many of the complaints made in the IMVU forums regarding this matter were that not only were users receiving items they did not wish to own but also receiving it multiple times. Clothing items cannot be used more than once at a time so this means that any additional purchases of said products only manage to waste the givers money.

Approximately a year ago another such program was implemented where IMVU Inc. changed the retail pricing for new users without informing them or anyone else that they would be doing so. The fluctuation they used could charge someone anywhere from 300% above or below the actual retail price of the product the new user was viewing in the catalogue. They did this without any warning to anyone and claimed later it was a test to see how new users would react to varying prices. They did not warn the new users of this fact, allowing them to choose for themselves if they wished to participate in such a 'test'. They did this as a blind test which caused many new users to not return to the site due to the sheer cost of purchasing the IMVU credits with real world money to afford the products they wished to own. This hurt the user based development community financially as well as implied that many of the user developers were grossly over charging for their products which prevented many of them from getting future sales from the new users signing up.

Over the past year the sheer amount of users that have had their accounts disabled without explanation as to why has been beyond comprehension. When asked for information as to what caused their account to be disabled it can take weeks, even months, to get a response from customer service, when a reply is actually given. There were many that were improperly disabled due to a 'bug' in their programming which falsely indicated that the user in question either posted or approved an 'Unfit for IMVU' (otherwise known as a UFI) product to the catalogue. There were no apologies or restitution made to those that lost business and products due to this incident. Unfortunately, this activity is still going on to this day.

I do not recommend IMVU to anyone, of any age. The issues I have mentioned here are only a small portion of the poor business practices shown by IMVU Inc. over the years I have been a member.

Software that is still "beta" after years and years of use.. that should tell you all you need to know. I did it for a couple of years before leaving for good a few months ago. It is still buggy. IMVU controls the marketplace whether you like it or not. Kiddies keep IMVU going these days. So if you just want a fun chat and don't mind random lockups, crashes, etc. and you like talking to kids or cyber maybe this is for you.

the feds are all over this site as it is illegal to solicit sex to minors online.

I can sign into imvu,
and get into my homepage and whatever but how do i,
actually sign into the vitrual world?

You install it. On the very top corner, after signing up, you should see a button that says Download. You install and it WALA. You got it...

IMVU is fun and entertaining, but they make credits really expensive to buy. The old IMVU was better, where you earned credits by just CHATTING with people. More sexual and "cooler" people are on there now. They make the game easy to use, but expensive. Just recently my account got banned because it said my avatar name is innappropriate. I've been having it for a few months, and they JUST NOTICED. The thing that pissed me off about them banning me, is because I spent hundreds of dollars on my account, and had over 800 buddies. Not only that, but I had my chatrooms, and TONS of clothes I used my money on to buy credits for. And the worst part is, they banned me for 3000 days. IMVU is cool, but it's screwed up in many ways that you can't even take it anymore...

I have had imvu since 2005 and i have loved the experience of it! Thought i can't seem to understand why people would make this to hack your bank account/ pay pal.. whatever, you name it.. And the longer you have it, the cleverer it gets. I have paid beyond millions of pounds on this and i have just loved it. In 2005 it was much more complex and you would be aloud to be a "noob" or whatever.. If you know anything just recently about this tell me please.

True story.
I installed imvu onto my aunts computer and the next day or so.. it broke her computer, she had her daughters collage files and everything on it and almost lost it all! I also broke my sony viao laptop for installing it just for a day.

Yeah its fun
Until you need
Customer Service
Its an absolute joke.
One response I for took over 48 days in between my response and their return response
which was a repeat of an earlier response, that was NO help at all to me. My problem is still unresolved and I am one of the paying users/ product designers. I gave up and told them to eat my shit!
-IMVU- XpiecemealX

I use IMVU and although its fun ad interactive, you will. end. up. spending your real money on this game and it isnt cheap etheir, your real money buys you what IMVU call credits, they help you get clothes,shoes,eyes,different head shapes,avatar sizes,hairstyles i could go on.. all this is great but low and behold your stuck with a problem i.e, your account has been hacked or your real money you used to get credits has been accepted but you have not gotten the credits.. well imvu DONT. want to know! they wont answer your emails, or answer what they call help tickets ( you send one off and they reply in a few days.. nope nada..) so enjoy whilst you can fellow imvu'ers but as soon as you get stuck, dont expect imvu to help you. Plus anyone and i mean anyone can get on this site..eck!

and comment on an old post

well 1 more thing to know is that you always could have changed from teenager til only caht whit 18

hmm i tried signing up but it said no

Its terrible 4 yur computer i wanted 2 uninstall it and it took 2 days!

I've had many bad experiences with IMVU since I have been using it. I've been on since about 2008 I think, but decided I wanted to be a developer and bought my name. Luckily at the time, IMVU actually had specials so you wouldn't spend a fortune to do this. Now that they are actually profiting, they are ripping people off more than ever. Prices have gone up, and they bumped up prices in the catalog which makes clothes more expensive to develop.


I had an account built up in the past couple of years, in which I had many products and income from those products. My account was hacked and the only way I could get it back was to show my credit card....screw that! I used PayPal every time so that wouldn't even have helped them. I don't trust them. I was very upset that I lost that account and all the time, money and effort I put into it.

I have started another account, but only to develop. I bought my name and that is all IMVU will see of my money. Luckily there are sites to go on now to buy credits WAY cheaper than IMVU sells them for.

So for anyone who's looking to chat, steer clear of IMVU, but if you insist, I suggest getting credits else where and also, resisting any purchases from the IMVU site. The chatting isn't all that fun anymore seeing as if you're a guest no one wants to chat with you, or you have to RP, or cyber. Hardly anyone just chats like normal people. And getting help from the staff is frustrating and will just raise your blood pressure. Like I said, the ONLY reason I'm on is to dev, if I didn't have so much fun doing that, I'd cancel my account, because, just for chatting isn't worth it anymore....

i dont know dolanw!!

this is amazing

I have joined this site recently - I'm 27, and am a seasoned internet saavy person. My experiences of the site have been so-so, in terms of the members, but the actual site itself has been marvelous. The random chat option is great fun, the chat rooms are generally friendly, everything runs smoothly (even on my old laptop with no proper graphics card). The customisation is straight-forward, if potentially expensive, there are ways to earn credits, though, but it takes time and isn't very much of a reward - still, it is there if you don't want to spend real money. If you spend real money - thats your decision as a customer.

In short, I've met some very great people to talk to there, some of which I may even meet some day. I've had lots of fun dressing my avatar up and its a great way of escaping real life.

imvu isnt bad like kenvea okay

MVU has been in "public BETA" for nearly a half decade. I joined two years ago and ran into some of my friends who were professional developers. They wanted to know why I refused to develop for IMVU. My reply was simple: I know a two-bit con when I see one. IMVU's greatly improved over the past two years, aside from the fact that all of the great developers they had have left. At least they know how to hire a CEO who's running through the their capital like it was water. Heck, the three investors can use the write-off. A recent update now locks directly into the Windows Vista kernel which takes some doing on their programmers' parts; not much doing, mind you ~ it's a lame hack ~ but still, it's just like everything else we've seen them do over the past two years: just this a smidgen on the right side of CA statute. I cannot recommend any of our readers downloading a program which in almost five years of BETA best improvement is a hook directly into your Vista kernel. Don't believe me ~ run a great software firewall like the paid version of Zone Alarm or the free version of Comodo Firewall Pro and it'll tell *most* of what you need to know. You might as well phone IMVU, give them your SS# and bank account number etc and beg them to steal everything confidential in your life, let alone just your computer system. I give them another six months (post-tax season) maximum before their investors shut them down

ok.my imvu keeps crashing...what do i do and i tried redownloading it but it still odes not work . every time i log on it says...the imvu service cannot be reached please check your internet connection and try again

i was off of imvu for 3 weeks and my entire inventory clothes furniture etc wasnt there it even said i have zero freinds

I have been a user on IMVU for almost four years now. Four years of my money and time have gone into this site and I am absolutely appalled by the blatant and constant disregard for their customers and community.

Time and time again, IMVU have ignored the wishes and concerns of their users by forcing through changes, removing popular functions and squeezing it's famed developer community for every penny they can get.

The first thing I would like to highlight is the abhorrent lack of customer services that this site provides to the users there. It a common experience for people to receive inadequate, to down right off-topic responses to complaints and help tickets that are filed. I have only ever filed a couple of tickets, which were with regards to their previewer (a developer tool used to create custom content). The responses were not only unhelpful, but also ill-explained and resolved none of the issues I had raised with them. I know of dozens of users who have had many more ill-dealings with their customer service. To put it concisely; there is no customer service on imvu. Only customer's frustrations.

The second thing is the peer review system IMVU implemented a couple of years back. Not only does this system allow for users to pass through inappropriate content at their discretion, it also takes forever for a developer to submit through to the catalogue system. This measure is entirely insufficient and it is frequent for adult rated content to leak though to the minors on the site.

The third is the 'dev tokens', promo credits system and increased profit margins that were forced onto the developer community. Promo credits cannot be used on-site in the same way as bought credits. They have no value anywhere other than in the custom created content catalogue. These credits then are converted into DEV tokens. They only account for a very small portion of the original spenditure with promo creds and are used when submitting products to the catalogue. So in other words, the content creator is loosing out on a lot of credits. IMVU also increased the percentage of profit they took from the items which drove catalogue prices and derivation costs up significantly.

The fourth is the introduction of the 5k credit transfer limit. Now this was introduced (without prior consent or consultation of the community) in order to increase security levels. Of course, this sounds all well and good, but it posed a massive problem to a forum section called the GASR (Graphic Arts Services and Requests). This forum is a place for the artists in the community to advertise their services and take requests and commissions for artwork and DP's (default pictures, which are profile pictures). Obviously, with levels of popularity and different measures of talent, there were prices varying from a couple of hundred credits, to over 10k in credits. Those who had prices for items costing over the 5k then faced the problem that people could no longer purchase their items. This affected custom home and product page layout designers and coders, custom 3D meshers, custom catalogue requests and graphic artists. This credit limit also effected user-created contest groups and pages which offered prizes for winning. IMVU clearly didn't consider anyone's opinions or the consequences of their actions when implementing this new security measure which received an uproar from it's users.

Then there was the Top Modelz game fiasco in which IMVU actually promoted art theft with a slogan that actually stated within it... 'steal the best pictures', again bringing outcry and anger from it's community. They had also submitted every user into this game without prior notification or consent. The game was rife with adult rated pictures and content which were on full view to the minors in the community (the age limit being a mere 13 years old).

The popular voice chat feature which had recently been added was then removed from public rooms without notification and again, without consulting community opinion. This leaving frequent chatters to mourn it's loss after only a few months of it's introduction.

Then the command *saveOutfit command was removed in a recent (and faulty) update to the IMVU client (the interactive, 3D chatting program imvu bleats on about so much). This command was popular amongst outfit contesters (a daily outfit challenge run each day by IMVU in which users create pictures with catalogue items to fit a specific theme) and is a requirement in user-created contest groups. It instead replaced it with the glitchy and controversial 'change outfit' feature, which actually allows users to change their picture in an 'entry is final' contest. This action was taken despite petitions to keep the function. As was done in several instances stated above.

Child safety is also VERY questionable, as with the instances aforementioned, they have also got very slack age verification measures which allow users younger than 13 to access it's site and there are ways that these underage users can purchase something called an Access Pass, which provides access to adult rated content such as nude avatars, flaccid genitalia, sexual action poses and furniture, alcohol, cigarettes and gore products.

Occasion after occasion, IMVU have proven that the value profit margins more than customer satisfaction. They have, at every turn, made life more difficult for the talented developer base that have made the company what it is today, the dedicated, the loyal and the longtime users that have poured countless hours and cash into it's depths and shirked on it's responsibility to those in it's community who require it's assistance with issues and providing sufficient security to the vunerable younger users who are at risk of being exposed to adult-rated content and predatory users.

If it weren't for the amazing community of users on this site, the extensive and high quality catalogue of developer products and some redeeming chat features that are available, this site would be a memory of my long distant past. IMVU would do well to appreciate their users, to value opinion and build relationships within the community, because without them, this site would be nothing.

Help!~ What do I do to my computer to be able to move my badges. They are stuck can't move them..I did it in the past but now i can't.Help please

This is a very good version i love it......

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