Ugh, I hate politics. It's why I'm a solo player. Mostly. The guilds have too much going on.
Because the first day in the GM told us what was up. He told us he designed it to be this way, and the only way to get out was to clear the game. Ten thousand players logged in, a couple hundred died within the first four hours when their families tried taking the NerveGear off their kids in the real world. When we tried logging out, there was no logout button. No backdoor/emergency logout was ever built into the system either.
But the NerveGear is a second generation FullDive technology. It's blocking commands from our brains and sending its own false signals to replicate sensory experiences.
I can't do anything from inside the game. Whatever hackers IRL are doing, they suck at doing. It's been two years.