Were the players able to communicate with the outside world?


Were the players of SAO able to communicate with the outside world? Could they
get any info from the outside world?

We don't see anything in season 1 to support this, but they did have
information brokers, and I think it was hinted that they brokers could get
information from the outside, for example news.




> Were the players of SAO able to communicate with the outside world? Could
> they get any info from the outside world?

If I remember correctly, no, they cannot communicate with the outside world
nor was it hinted that they were able to. Regarding the information brokers, I
think they only deal with information inside the SAO world, not with
information in the real world. As seen
[here](http://swordartonline.wikia.com/wiki/Argo), Argo sold information
between players but **the information sold was restricted to information found
in the game world.**

