Sounds like a scene from Tad Williams' Otherland.
...a rather lengthy book...
Book 1 is around 800 pages.
...a bunch of people in virtual worlds...
"...widespread availability of full-immersion virtual reality installations, which allow people from all walks of life to access an online world..."*
...set in the future.
"The story is set on Earth near the end of the 21st century, probably between 2082 and 2089..."*
...character playing a fantasy virtual reality world, and getting
killed by skeletons because he sees a glitch like a bright portal. He
comments on how he wound up dead by creatures he's killed a thousand
times before, how he has to start all over again and that he has to
complain to the people who made the game.
"In North America, Orlando Gardiner and his friend Sam Fredericks, famous contestants in the Middle Country, a Medieval fantasy gameworld, go on an apparently routine quest, where Orlando finds his own image of the golden city. While he is distracted by the image, his gaming character is killed, and he becomes obsessed with finding out what the city is and why it was shown to him. "*
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