Quote Originally Posted by HandofShadows View Post
Do people still ride in and drive cars? In the United States over 35,000 people died in motor vehicle accidents in 2015 and people still drive. VR has some really good things going for it like a car and people aren't going to throw it away easily. Also people understand that the VR sets in the first series had extra equipment in them that enables them to be able to kill a person. It wasn't bad design, but the actions of a madman without proper (any?) no oversight. Not a problem with VR itself.
The problem with that is that they were still using software based on the same crazy dude's work. The second arc was so tightly integrated with it that said madman was able to materialize himself in the game, and even beyond that the second game had people trapped in it without their will (for which we never see the actual game suffering any consequences, mind you). There's no way that any software with "black box" type stuff would have even considered being used.

Definitely an extremely silly aspect of the series. Even if we assume VR survives, it continues to baffle me why ANY of the main characters would touch VR again for the rest of their lives, no matter how safe people say it is.

Still, there were some good stories in there we wouldn't have seen if that were the case. I think the only arc that's completely without merit is Gun Gale Online.