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Originally Posted by kyp275
It's called an INTERNAL TEST BUILT. Are you seriously suggesting that MMO devs pushes hotfix and patches UNTESTED onto the live server!?
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Exactly, it would be suicidal for any game company to grant GMs those level of access. However, there is also zero reason for game devs to CREATE that type of access terminal in-game, and also LEAVE it in a live-built, there is simply no reason whatsoever to do. Any new patches or fixes are worked on and tested on an internal test server before they are pushed onto the live server anyway.
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The problem with that line of thinking is that in addition to being the first VRMMO, SAO is run by Cardinal. Pushing out hotfixes and patches live is pretty much exactly what it does. In other words, SAO employs a staggering amount of automation on it's back end, and updates things more or less on the fly. They even made attempts at automating some GM functions as seen by Yui.
So given the amount of work the game is doing on itself while live, it makes sense that the admins would also need the ability to do their own updates while it's live, or access and change the server while logged into the live server. If Cardinal for example shut down NPC AI like it shut down Yui, I can see the admins verifying the problem wanting the ability to teleport to the nearest console to restart them instead of going through the hassle of logging out to do it.