Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-90.214.113.224-20180210223859/@comment-26018514-20180211030451

Sentry 616 wrote: I do mean how Aincrad was copied over into ALO minus the death trap. If you think about it, it would be fairly macabre.

... Not really, Aincrad was a deathtrap, but that wasn't what it was intended to be, it was a fully functioning world that the creator was like "I don't want people just coming in here as tourists, they're fucking living this shit".

now, you could say the ~ 2000 people(I'm not remembering the number, but it was pretty low) who survived it might have bad memories... but most of those who did wouldn't recognize the castle floating there as they lived on it, and that's assuming that

A: They aren't soured on VR

B. They play ALO, which was pretty much a crack version of SAO

No-one playing ALO was forced to go there, it stayed separate from the storyline. which SAO actually had more of than was even played.