History Headscratchers / SwordArtOnline

** Let's not forget, that the World Tree Quests was kept incredibly vague about how it's handled, and in a game where players are separated via nine separate racial factions in game. So, you sprinkle a rumor around in game that only one faction can be upgraded to becoming an ALF with unlimited flight and no height restriction, so now, not only do you have to plan for a raid involving an endless horde of enemies, that seemingly scales to the number of players currently participating in the battle, but you also now have to face a world that favors PvP battles with the other factions trying to stop your own from "winning". And on top of all this, there is the political intrigue involved within your own faction. In short, Sugou/Oberron has created [[Series/GameOfThrones Game Of Thrones Online]], but [[RecycledinSpace with Nordic Fairy lore!]]. All of this ties into Sugou's AGodAmI persona, and taking sadistic pleasure in seeing others suffer.

** Eiji himself did turn himself in. However, since the victims are only Furinkazan members and they did not mentioned his name, he basically got away free because of their mercy. The rule is that a suspect cannot be convicted without the victim's approval. Its different story if someone is dead because of Eiji assault. That is under murder which you would not get away with even if the victim's family permitted you to be free.

[[spoiler: First and foremost, those fluctlights are developed in such a way that they limit their thinking plus reasoning and just obidiently obey the rules (Taboo Index, which include disobey orders, kill people and such) at all cost. Now, since they are programmed as such, whenever someone would do something against the rules that were mentioned, they had this code 871, right eye seal, which works as a last safety measure or simply, a stop command which would prevent him/her from violating the rules. Alice just happened to be a fluclight that able to overcome that stop command or break the rules according to what she trust by nature. Just so you know, Kikuoka and his development team wants an AI that can act on his/her own reasoning for army purpose, meaning killing people and win the war]]

** Agreed. For example, compare it to something like ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa''-- the villain of that game outright told them that they would have to kill in order to get out of their situation, and they did; however, it was only because they ''had'' to, they had no other alternatives or methods of escape, and they were constantly pushed to kill with threats on themselves and their loved ones. So, like here, yes people did kill themselves or others by their own hands, but since the situation is somewhat controlled, it ''is'' under the head of the GM.

** Aincrad has an AI that would be able to identify and fix bugs. The point of the beta testers was likely to get people interested in the game. And having no beta testers at all would have been a little suspicious, and Akayaba's backers might have started asking questions.
** Akayaba only needed to get ten thousand people interested. He got far more. If Akayaba's backers were suspicious, he could have answered them honestly. Having an AI find bugs in the game is in no way related to trapping people in the game, so it's not as if they could have deduced his motives from this. Also, only partially beta testing it is even more odd.

* People weren't willing to play immersive virtual reality games after two successive fiascos, but they suddenly changed their minds when offered to play games made with the engine used for the first one, which could have easily contained some code to cause the fiasco all over again, or worse, it could have contained an upload of Akayaba.
** No one knew about the upload of Akayaba; Kirito isn't the type to publicize things like that. And the second fiasco wasn't on the same level as the first; sure, the GM turned out to be evil and experimenting on people, but the actual players were fine, and in fact his experiments only worked on the older versions of nerve gear without the extra safety measures.
** I thought somebody else told Kirito about the upload. Or was it that they just told him that he fried his brains, and Kirito deduced it was a destructive upload? Also, by not publicizing it, isn't he basically letting Akayaba get away with mass murder? Also, no matter how unlikely it is for Akayaba to somehow trap people inside games made with the seed, it's still more likely than him trapping people in games not made with it. You can argue that people shouldn't be much more afraid of games made with it, but they ended up somehow being less afraid. Anything that could go wrong before can still go wrong, but now other stuff can go wrong too.
** Are we talking about the same thing? The upload of Akayaba that gave Kirito his GM powers and the Seed? Because Kirito was the only witness to that, though he presumably told Asuna about it.
** He saw that, but I don't think he understood what was going on until someone told him about the Akayaba "committing suicide".

** None of the player killers were prosecuted because everyone wanted to forget about the whole event and pretend it never happened (plus, Akayaba got blamed for all the deaths, no matter the cause). And Sugou is ''hardly'' a good measure of how people would react to Kirito and Asuna being married. But it's not clear if he even knew the full details. He just mentioned something about how he knew they had a relationship, and didn't care. Asuna's father may have known, he may not, but technically Asuna was engaged before she went into SAO, so from his perspective the marriage would likely have been invalidated. But he isn't particularly known for being aware of what's going on--remember that Asuna hated Sugou, and her father didn't even notice.

* Even if it doesn't result in actual death, it still seems like some of the ways people die in these games would cause some amount of psychological trauma. This is something that occurred to me while watching the Phantom Bullet arc what with people being shot all the time. Even if there's no pain (and why there would EVER be a pain setting like the end of Fairy Dance showed is ridiculous) there still seems to be a physical reaction. Like at the end of the Bullet of Bullet tournament when Sinon shoots the last remaining competitor so he can't interfere with Kirito and Death Gun's duel and she blows a huge gaping hole in his chest that sends him shooting backwards a good ten meters or so. Or Kirito bisecting Death Gun, or Sinon blowing her and Kirito up with a grenade to win via Double Kill. Or Dyne getting a faceful of buckshot from Pale Rider. Even ALO seems like it could get messy what with being stabbed or even losing simulated limbs; I mean, there's a difference between seeing that happen to a remotely controlled character on a screen and having that happen directly ''to'' you in a VR environment. I get why that might be useful in say, military training (and I guess also in that case a pain receptor of some sort would make a ''little'' sense, but surely not the civilian models) but not in the WoW equivalent. It seems like dying in such graphic ways as the series shows are possible would still be freaky for people to experience.

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Meta question: Why go from using numbers (SAO II) to using an arc title for the season name? I get that the Alicization Arc is going to take a lot of episodes to adapt (so the odds of them adapting another arc in the same anime are slim), but why not just call it SAO III?
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** Perhaps it's a matter of personal comfort. Kazuto may have used heavy swords in other MMOs in the past, or been a fan of such weapons in some form (TV, video games, etc), and, as such, simply feels more comfortable with that sort of heft in hand.

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* I am thinking about the current way that MMOs are played where a person can have an account along with being able to create multiple characters with limited slots for each. In SAO, the VRMMOs created by the World Seed allows one person to play one MMO with one character (that they can't even customize) along with how you need to transfer your account to play a different one which would make such an attribute to be unfair consider what is capable from MMOs in reality.

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** How are you generating the EMP to disable the circuits in the first place? Putting aside the fact that the EMP would probably trigger the emitter in the pro-sex of frying it's circuits, I'm not sure how you'd generate the pulse. We could microwave them, which has the downside of doing the [=NerveGear's=] job for it, or we could use a nuke, which... No. Obviously not an option.

** I thought that Asuna had gotten antoher character in ALO contrary to the Queen Titania one she had while held hostage with her new VR console. Another question would come in how the stats would regulate properly from on game to another if they have different stats from the others that would have different mechanics and functions? I also would like to know how it would make sense and have a proper balance in gameplay to not have the player grind and level up compared to keeping the same level from a different game? How can profit be made by different game companies if they have not bought a copy of the game from an entirely different company?

** The MMO's do allow more than one account per game at least since Asuna has two characters on her account. I think the swapping mechanic helps keep stats up so you don't have to constantly grind and so that you don't have to keep paying for a game you aren't playing.
I'm more baffled that out of the many mmo's she tried out none had customizable human like characters.

* I am thinking about the current way that MMOs are played where a person can have an account along with being able to create multiple characters with limited slots for each. In SAO, the VRMMOs created by the World Seed allows one person to play one MMO with one character (that they can't even customize) along with how you need to transfer your on account to play a different one which would make such an attribute to be unfair consider what is capable from MMOs in reality.

[[/folder: How did Yuuki and her family contract and die from HIV in the first place?