India, March 16 -- VRChat, one of the most popular social VR experiences on Steam, is currently experiencing a major outage affecting thousands of users worldwide. Players are unable to log in, join worlds, or access core features, with many reporting persistent connection errors and API failures.

The outage began around 19:19 UTC on Saturday, March 15, when VRChat's official status page first acknowledged the problem. In their initial update, the team stated: "We're currently seeing high amounts of latency and errors in our API systems."

As the situation worsened, VRChat provided further updates. At 21:03 UTC, they noted: "We are continuing to investigate the issues causing the ongoing outage. There is currently no estimate of time to ...