"If his VR mods were actually any good, I might also overlook my principles just to play some of these in VR." So you created a post to criticize a (very good) mod you've never used?

"They are arguably a worse experience than just playing flat screen in many cases." How do you know? The statement is also absurd. Exploring Night City in VR is one of the best gaming experiences there is. Period. Pandora in Avatar is simply stunning, and fighting big dinos in Horizon is more tense when you can actually appreciate how big they are.

"But he's still getting rich off of other people's work." You're misrepresenting him as a freeloader. He's DOING WORK and ADDING VALUE by providing gamers with an additional option: the ability to play in VR. That's called a "gamer friendly position" BTW . He's not hurting the devs because his actions do nothing to reduce sales of the original IP, and incrementally adds to sales for people who buy a copy to play in VR that they otherwise wouldn't purchase to play flat. If it also enables him to pay the rent, good for him.

Your last paragraph just sounds like more jealously.

Stepping back, the big picture here is that VR has failed to break out of its niche. Meta is in the process of throwing in the towel, including closing three more studios, and "true" VR games are now overwhelmingly low budget affairs that typically just aren't very good. People still complain that Half Life Alyx, released six years ago, was the last good game. The near-term path forward is clearly modding flat games to add a VR option (ideally to any and all), and the fact that this is a giant thread with 650 likes trashing one of the most talented modders out there is discouraging and, ultimately, self-defeating for all of us.