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Originally Posted by LoweGear
Think about a hostage situation. In a large-scale hostage crisis, you may have something like the hostages outnumbering the terrorists 5-1, or even 10-1. And yet you hardly ever see or hear about moments where ALL of the hostages step out and bumrush the terrorists through superior numbers (the only time I can recall that this ever happened was in United Flight 93 in 9/11, and they all ended up dead).
That's because while the chances of success collectively are great with the advantage of numbers, the unfortunately fact is that there will always a high chance of people dying in that attempt, especially against heavily-armed foes. While we all like to think that we'd all be bravado and courageous when such a thing happens, our human nature is such that we'd think about how to get ourselves out alive first. Thus, people seek out their own individual solutions on how to survive first. It'd actually much easier for your proposal to occur had death not become a factor, since people can more easily "give up their lives" for the cause. With real, tangible death introduced though, people revert to their natural survival instincts. The only way to overcome said instincts is if either a person is unflappingly altruistic, heroic, or trained, which very few people in said MMO would be.
The only way people of various disparate beliefs and ideologies can be convinced to band together into such an army is if there is a leader among them capable of bringing them together, and as is clear to the novel readers and those who saw the PV's, such groups do exist in SAO (like the Knights of Blood) this being an MMORPG and all that with guild systems. But all 10,000 assaulting the towers all the way to the top in a single charge of glory is something that is highly unlikely to happen without a single charismatic leader bordering on godlike.
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You want to gather a large raid of players and just zerg through the floors?
Sure, go ahead.
Oh wait, your raid just met one of the bosses, Vaelastrasz
Its your first time fighting him, you have no idea what to do
TPK