MISSING BADGES

IMVU BADGES

It was the summer of 2013 when IMVU was having severe connection issues. In response to their downtime they gifted their VIP users two badge tiles for the VIP users to design and pass out to friends and homepage visitors.

There was a very large uproar by a substantial amount of users. Partly because non-VIP users were also inconvenienced by the service outage, and partly because those very few users who had invested tons of credits on badges that were bought prior to the outage felt their badges had become less valuable. The non-VIP users felt snubbed, while the "very few" users proceeded to remove the images from their badge tiles thus leaving a grainy, pink box in place of the badge. You may have seen these pink boxes in badge trays yourself.

Now, months later, I haven't heard a thing from the non-VIP users in regards to the perceived snub by IMVU. However, I see that one or more of the "Elite" users (I will refer to them as elite simply because they put themselves in a class above those that didn't own badges) have not replaced the badge tile images that were removed. It's petty in my opinion.

Say no to the elitists. Grab the badge tiles here.