Yeah VR is pretty much the only reason I'm interested in ED at all. If I felt like playing pancake, there are better pancake games I could be playing, including space games.
And FD could add everything I ever wanted and passionately argued for, like full Newtonian flight with no speed limits, full player to player economy, meaningful and balanced PVP, open only, no auto-aim weapons and if none of it is in VR they would have still taken away more from me than they would have added. They might have made the best darned space sim game ever, but VR is like actually flying a spaceship. And I'd rather go visit those planets myself, and not just watch some action figure do it for me on a TV screen!
Just some perspective on how important this is to me.
+1 for that, as you say, playing it on flat screen is very detached somewhat like watching an onboard camera footage from an F1 car, playing it on VR you are the driver.
This gets even more annoying when you start pulling crazee Gees, like a boost turn, and the scanner moves out of your field of vision so you don't know if the critter broke left or right. In that circumstance you are momentarily "blinded", but in VR you can chin down to see the scanner again
I know in this forum it may be considered as a blasphemy but if I have to play in pancake mode I prefer Star Citizen for various personal reasons.
That game, even if in alpha state, already got everything I expect from a space game.
The only issue is the lack of VR. If Odyssey lacks of VR too, well there's simply no reason for me to play ED anymore.
A number of years ago I bought Star Citizen to keep me ticking over for elite to be developed, I now feel it's been the inverse of that, without VR Elite will have kept me ticking over while Star Citizen was being developed.
I am just as amused at the praise NMS gets. A god awful game with simplistic graphics and the most basic gameplay loops.
And as to people allowed to have their opinion, when have I said they cannot. They can say all they want. Doesn't mean its correct. NMS has basic graphics and very basic gameplay loops. This are facts. Fine, you may like those simplistic graphics and simplistic gameplay loops, good for you, but saying that NMS has out developed FDev is laughable.
As to argument, I'm not arguing, it's a statement.
I've never played NMS, as it doesn't appeal to me as I perceive it as being "Minecraft in space" - however, "Minecraft" is one of the most popular games ever, so while it may not work for you and I, I can see the appeal to a lot of people. And I know that compared to elite the graphics are somewhat simplistic, but from what I've read of the VR in NMS, it's a lot of work that went into making it a proper full VR experience like Golgot is campaigning for, rather than the mvp "VR Headlook" that I've set my sights on. By that I mean to say, as far as I am aware, that hand controllers are very prevalent in the game and as such things like door buttons work, and many other things that require off camera / behind the scenes support. I think this level of detail is something they should be lauded for, and that aspect of NMS can be used to benchmark
Please don't make strawman arguments. "I won't give you money if you don't do what I want" is a threat. In this case, a threat of financial injury. Just because you want to narrow the definition of a word doesn't change what the word means.
Strawman? Pot kettle my man...
"a threat of financial injury" 
Just google it, and this time read the definitions and the context.
"No VR no Buy" is is not a
threat, it is by definition an
ultimatum wrapped up in a hashtag friendly soundbite:
The difference between threat and ultimatum is that a threat is an expression of intent to injure or punish another whereas an ultimatum is a final statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another.
So, were a hypothetical person to say
"If you don't add VR to Odyssey I'm gonna burn your offices down" - they are making a threat of damage to property.
Likewise if hypothetical person said
"If you don't add VR to Odyssey I'm gonna break your staff's legs" That is also a threat of physical harm and injury.
If that same person said
"If you don't add VR to Odyssey I'm not gonna buy it" - they are presenting an ultimatum as it relates purely to the transaction.
No VR No Buy is defacto stipulating terms and conditions, we are mandating that a feature of the "Odyssey" product has to be VR support if it is to be "acceptable" and therefore "worth" purchasing to us. Removing VR from the game significantly or even totally devalues it from our point of view, ergo the presence or absence of VR support will determine whether there is a transaction or not. Therefore "No VR No Buy" is stipulating terms and conditions as we are, in a round-about way, stating that our purchase of Odyssey will be
conditional on the inclusion of VR support.
Ergo, as "No VR No Buy" stipulates the terms and conditions we are applying to the pending transaction to buy the Odyssey patch, without malevolent connotations or inferred criminal outcomes, it is indisputably an ultimatum rather than a threat.
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