Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-121.219.157.62-20150401050156/@comment-172.86.243.152-20160825232751

Does it say in the novel, or somewhere else, that the company who bought ALO found it and incorporated it? I know they coppied the engine, programming, and graphics formatting but you would have thought Kayaba when he purged SAO wouldn't have left a copy laying around for them to find. I like to think he entrusted it to Kazuto somehow with the seed. (Then again this is the guy who Kidnaps 10 thousand people then forgets why after 2 years...)

Like I said with Pina, I believe it could go either way. Unless there is something specifically stating that thats how it was?

The way Aincrad is introduced to Sugo and her reaction leads me to believe she had no idea it was in the game, if there was a update to add it there is no way it wouldn't have been announced/she would have heard about it. Putting Aincrad in ALO would be a pretty interesting move. On the one hand you have everyone who wanted to play SAO flocking to ALO but you also have the publicity of having the "Death Game" in ALO. Personally, I would have rereleased it as a stand alone, since magic was never suppose to be in SAO.

I've never read the novels so i'm just giving my speculations based on the information you get in the anime and I like to believe that he still has access to admin privileges in some compacity.