[quote=@Spanner]
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Exactly my reaction after reading it for the first time, since they never explained it in the novel and actually had to make a freaking random extra in the manga that no one reads to explain the world.
Still, it seens that the console for the game is pretty easy for some reason, with the pay to win content being the main differential... Guess they wanted the peasants to have at least a little something to console themselves and escape from their shitty reality. 
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"A little something to console themselves" yeah right.  They clearly want to keep the drones too busy in their spare time.  All that time spent in the VRMMO is not spent figuring out "hey this isn't right, let's get them!"