Talk:Kayaba Akihiko/@comment-76.103.62.49-20120827091726/@comment-5426684-20120914053952

I don't know about him doing it for his "ego". I think he just wanted to escape reality and create a world of his own. In the light novel, what Kayaba says to Kirito after he is asked what were his motives for making SAO for, his tone doesn't sound egotistic but actually dreamlike ( which is open to interpretation). So maybe, he made the game because he wanted to escape into a fantasy...