

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.


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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?

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.**


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They definitely could not have. Then none of the players would of panicked as
much, because they could have contacted their families.


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