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Originally Posted by Adigard
whelp, in theory it'd add another 2+ years to the timetable... but comatose human bodies can probably only be maintained for so long in a hospital, so I'd imagine everyone would be dead before that happened. Of course that's probably part of the stress Asuna is suffering under, if we continue to assume she's running the boss clearing strategy meetings.
Modern day MMO's are rife with 0day bugs, and even a 30d Beta period wouldn't be enough to resolve them all. Back when SAO was written the bugs tended to be less prevalent (likely people spent more time and money ensuring their products were ready on release day... or maybe my memory is just that bad).
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Not necessarily 2+ years as they would have high level players to lead them to tell them where to get the best look, where to raise their XP the highest, etc. Could be a lot quicker, as they don't need to clear each "boss" again, just a matter of XP grinding. Not sure how XP grinding works, but if they could protect these guys, but make them gain XP from the higher level monsters, then they could even level up faster.
As for the bugs, would just suck to be the case if they came across a boss that was invincible lol. Or has a sliver of HP left but still won't die no matter what you do. Would be terrible.
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@craxuan: The creator might not be monitoring every single second of the game. What happens if you come across a boss like that and you have no way to pause the game and ask a GM to fix the problem? It's also a lot of work for one person to monitor and edit the game, and then the question arises, how come no one apprehends him and edits the game themselves? Another question, is he "stuck" in this game too? Or is he able to log out himself, and if that is also the case, why can't they overwrite the game system/coding and issue a patch such that others can wake up too, etc.