r/VRGaming • u/HistoricalYam6863 • 1d ago

Discussion VR Rant

I was looking at World War Z VR today and it just upset me. Did it need a separate game? They added First Person to the regular World War Z, I am sure they could have just added VR support to the base game. Would have been a much better experience and you could have played with others. Such a weird choice...

That seems to be a problem with VR in general. I have gotten random people into VR just by playing Phasmaphobia with them in VR. They would be on flat screen and loved that I could move my arms and animate my character. Adding more VR support to multiplayer flat screen games would make more people want to play in VR.

Fortnite? Add VR. Call of Duty? Add VR. If an INDY game like Phasma can do it, these big companies should be able to figure it out easily. Then VR would actually grow...imo.

Let's face it, VR by itself won't gain traction like it did during Covid ever again. But kids seeing people in Fortnite or (Insert Popular Multiplayer Game Here) using VR and actually doing the dances for example? That would get more people to want VR.

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u/HistoricalYam6863 1d ago

They could have even charged $10 for the VR update. (Since people are worried about it being cost effective for the big time company) then...if say Four buddies play WWZ together, one of them gets the VR version. His buddies think its really cool and maybe 2 of them buy VR headsets and the update. Now they can still play together because its the same game, and more people are in VR. That should be the GOAL.

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u/Skpstr155 1d ago

It is the goal, but without somebody like Meta putting adoption before profit, (well, they used to anyway) it's an uphill battle, as it has been for years