[Deltaray]

Originally Posted by Alucard24

Well, I still don't quite understand : the whole game is running on a server somewhere, right ? Why not just reboot or destroy this server to free everyone ?

Or why isn't possible to reroute the access to the network to another server similar but without the kill thing ? Blocking IP and/or changing DNS should still be doable in 2024....

And I assume that this guy had some help to develop everything, co-workers, a society, .... They could be a huge help and they will help because they surely don't want to be trow in jail because of their boss.

As for the boss, I can't imagine anyone able to hide while connected to the net to overview what's going on in the game. I mean, we can already do it (more or less) and here it's ten years in the future !

Spoiler for Answer for question:

Kayaba worked alone, of course he had to hire someone to help, but basically, he is the mastermind, who did developed NerveGear and Sword art system mainframe, Cardinal system.

And rebooting server would case NerveGear to fry everyone's brain, and even if there is a possible way to do it, no one wants to take risk if something goes wrong which ends up killing 10 000 players ( or those who are not dead yet)