Maybe because games(mmorpg to be more precise) isn't your thing? In most of the Vrmmorpg stories, players can get money from it, so it become something like a job. With the attract of money and the competition in it, it's normal that the players take it seriously.
Even more if the said player have some problem in real life. Since the Vrmmorpg reproduce every sense, even a blind or deaf person can have it's sense back once inside the game. Imagine how a persone who suffer from this would feel when entering a game like that.
If you add to that a real personalities to the NPC and the possibility to have real conversation and interaction with them, it's normal people don't want to come back in the real life from that type of game. I will be the first one to never come back.
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It's a wish fulfillment type of story usually. It also depends on the story because some delve into their real life quite a bit.
Are we thinking of different vrmmorpg stories? I thought of The Kings Avatar and how it can't be solved by touching grass, since it's about e-sports. Wait, is The Kings Avatar a VRmmorpg?
@RepresentingEnvy Yes, they get adapted as anime when better stories could have been. Instead of Shangri la frontier we could have got: The legendary moonlight sculptor (Korean), Overgeared (Korean), The reincarnation of the strongest sword god (Chinese), The thief who roamed the world (Chinese)