Unblock VRCHAT in Iran

The Issue

First of all this is not an Iranian problem, this is something that VRChat itself is doing. We are not blaming or harassing any VRChat employee or staff, this is a humble request that will improve the lives of Iranian VRChat players. VRChat is completely free to decide what to do themselves, we simply want to notify them about this.
VRchat has disallowed accessibility to their services in Iran for a very long time.

 

 

 

 



It is not because of any limitations like third-party hosting services prohibiting access, VRchat has been doing this itself despite the fact that if they allow Iranian players to play it would be flawlessly playable by Iranians.  As VRchat is a game and so are other games like Roblox or Minecraft or Sea of Thieves (Which do not block Iran) it should allow Iranians to play the game. Sanctions do not mean the game should be completely blocked in Iran, they mean that VRchat should not recognize Iran, this means they shouldn't sponsor Iranian players or encourage them but it does not mean the service should completely be inaccessible. Individuals living in Iran already have the burden of filtering to deal with, they do not need to bare having to deal with services blocking them too. With all this in mind, there are absolutely no logical reasons for VRchat to be blocked in Iran, it is understandable that VRchat as a company saw the iranian sanctions and didn't want to deal with any of it and just said "let's block Iran just incase" but it is causing unwanted trouble for Iranian players since most VPN providers are blocked they get extremely high amounts of ping on servers when they use VPN's

 

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The Issue

First of all this is not an Iranian problem, this is something that VRChat itself is doing. We are not blaming or harassing any VRChat employee or staff, this is a humble request that will improve the lives of Iranian VRChat players. VRChat is completely free to decide what to do themselves, we simply want to notify them about this.
VRchat has disallowed accessibility to their services in Iran for a very long time.

 

 

 

 



It is not because of any limitations like third-party hosting services prohibiting access, VRchat has been doing this itself despite the fact that if they allow Iranian players to play it would be flawlessly playable by Iranians.  As VRchat is a game and so are other games like Roblox or Minecraft or Sea of Thieves (Which do not block Iran) it should allow Iranians to play the game. Sanctions do not mean the game should be completely blocked in Iran, they mean that VRchat should not recognize Iran, this means they shouldn't sponsor Iranian players or encourage them but it does not mean the service should completely be inaccessible. Individuals living in Iran already have the burden of filtering to deal with, they do not need to bare having to deal with services blocking them too. With all this in mind, there are absolutely no logical reasons for VRchat to be blocked in Iran, it is understandable that VRchat as a company saw the iranian sanctions and didn't want to deal with any of it and just said "let's block Iran just incase" but it is causing unwanted trouble for Iranian players since most VPN providers are blocked they get extremely high amounts of ping on servers when they use VPN's

 

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Petition created on January 16, 2025