Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25222488-20150227031543/@comment-6697950-20150227080034

The anime is based on books of the same name. We don't need to guess what will happen, since it's already written. If you're interested in spoilers, feel free to read the Project Alicization and Underworld articles. Or you could read volume 9+ summaries. If you want a short answer, no they won't be playing ALO, nor any other game (the virtual reality in the next arc is not a game, it's a simulation) for that matter (aside from a brief scene in ALO). But there will be a life or death situation in some sense.