The toxicity of questing in MMORPGs today

[Renik]

Playing an MMO in VR would bring with it a whole slew of new problems far beyond simply altering the control scheme or questing structure. Can you imagine trying to dance around the AOE parties of most of FFXIV's high-end content without the spatial awareness granted by a third-person camera? Hell, just trying to accomplish jumping puzzles in first-person mode where you can't see your feet can prove to be frustrating in some games.

You can play VR in 3rd-person camera, 3rd person VR games seem to be very popular in HTC and Oculus. Most people don't realize such games exist, but the basis are the same, and we are used to experiencing situations in 3rd-person already so it's not as unnatural as you could think.

[SessionZero]

You can play VR in 3rd-person camera, 3rd person VR games seem to be very popular in HTC and Oculus. Most people don't realize such games exist, but the basis are the same, and we are used to experiencing situations in 3rd-person already so it's not as unnatural as you could think.

If you're going to be playing in third person anyway, what's the point of wearing a VR headset? At that point it's just a gimmick. I'd rather just keep playing the way I do now.

[Renik]

If you're going to be playing in third person anyway, what's the point of wearing a VR headset? At that point it's just a gimmick. I'd rather just keep playing the way I do now.

I guess it's about preferences, just saying that VR headsets are compatible with the existing systems. But when I said that the future in MMORPGs is VR I was thinking in may be 10-15 years in the future, as you said the genre will be absolutely different to what we have now, or may not even exist (I think most games will be MMO in the future, everything has online and this online gets bigger, but that's just my opinion and a different topic), but anyway, what we have now in FFXIV is just one of many systems and not a standard.

I would like to discuss more on this topic, but this is getting more theoretical with each post, and this could take days, so I'll just leave it here.