Quote (Kippet @ Sep 4 2013 12:01am)
Yeah I haven't touched the books.
It doesn't make sense to use the same player data from a previous game, you would want people to start off from square one.
That part probably wasn't an intential thing (and is never really explained)
so here a possible hypothesis on it though
it could be related to the method used to trap players may have also obtained user data as well (imo this is the most probable cause since if they did keep the data as well it would've been 18 months old data since ALO started 6 months after SAO incident began)