Comments on: Sword Art Online: Echoes of Aincrad would take about 10 years to develop if the devs tried depicting all 100 floors of the titular world, according to series producer

By: Rikka

Rikka — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:30:38 +0000

Yet dot hack did what they could not with a world generator system. Sad. No pathetic.

By: Moe

Moe — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 02:49:53 +0000

In reply to Jay. 4 year literally no about making floor itself but all other elements like ui, design, fight mechanics, balance stuff, npc and etc. All harder stuff have they completed so floor is just a copy paste like that

By: Dakota

Dakota — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:12:23 +0000

In reply to Mike. I mean, 90% of the game is back end. It'd probably take a month to create the maps, quest, and new enemies. All the harder stuff is done

By: Kent

Kent — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:57:38 +0000

Hollow Fragment is 76 floors to 100, either dev being lazy or the budget is not enough

By: M

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:00:51 +0000

Make no difference to me I will never ever pay 150 buck for a game, which is what my ps5 is saying it will cost. That just plain outrageses

By: Zelev

Zelev — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:44:06 +0000

Why don’t they just make the first 25-40, release the game and drop floors monthly as they are finished?

By: Dk

Dk — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:39:59 +0000

Well get to it

By: Aashik

Aashik — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:19:03 +0000

Imagine they released unfinished version earlier and like in anime there is no exit button that would be cool

By: KyleAD

KyleAD — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:10:10 +0000

So, If 10 years equals 100 floors, and the game’s been in development for 7 years, attributing only four years of “actual development”, shouldn’t there be 40 floors? How are only 2 floors done, in 7 years time? I feel like y’all could just use A.I. to create and modify all 100 floors, in less than one year. I pray that y’all will focus on building more floors, from now, until release, and y’all better release new floors, in DLC, until every floor gets finished! And each DLC better have at least 20 levels, also there should be at least 20 levels to begin with, at launch! Y’all have zero excuses to launch a game for SAO’s Aincrad, that’s been in the works for 7 years, with only two floor levels! This game has the potential to be great, but y’all are already ruining it with y’all’s greed, by selling the ultimate version of the game for $110.00 USD, with only two levels, so y’all can milk us dry, for everything we’re worth, with DLC, for the next 10 years or longer! Y’all think y’all are going to sell us DLC packs for $25 a pop, with only five new floors, every six months, and then sell them all combined for another $120, after they’ve all been released? Y’all are literally the epitome of greed!

By: Spiicychiipz

Spiicychiipz — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:13:06 +0000

I would rather wait ten years for the 100 floors, than have it now and only have 2 floors. This does not change the fact that I am buying it though.

By: Zzz

Zzz — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:44:54 +0000

Welcome back progressive

By: Zzz

Zzz — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:42:53 +0000

In reply to Bryce. Welcome back progresive at this point

By: Sh4d0w_fey25

Sh4d0w_fey25 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:28:54 +0000

I feel like they would have a big fan base either way if they had plans to make all 100 floors. They could take a note from other long story games like genshin impact and similar games by releasing a floor or two at a time with updates every so often

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:43:33 +0000

100 floors in 10 years.
10floors in 1 year.

2 floors in 4 years???
(Even with all the mechanics they needed to make etc this would mean they spend less then 2months on the 2 floors meaning they could have easily given us more floors, if that 100 floors on 10 years is accurate which I don’t think it is. Just interview talk).

By: A guy

A guy — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:09:33 +0000

Which wouldn’t be much some modern game take 20 years or more for a 4th the content that game would have

By: Ubiquitous

Ubiquitous — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:49:09 +0000

Only Floor 1 and Floor 2? Sick, so at most we’ll get to fight 2 floor bosses then, and one of them is going to be Illfang the Kobold Lord, which we’ve fought in pretty much all the other SAO games set in Aincrad…

I was excited for Bandai Namco to finally take a W with one of the SAO games (god knows they’ve made too many) but it looks like they just couldn’t help themselves. The whole appeal of SAO to begin with is the ascent from Floor 1 to 100, and you’re telling me I’ll only get to climb a single Floor? Yeah okay, time to wrap it up.

By: Scragg

Scragg — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:40:31 +0000

Well they’ve had over 15 years so what’s the problem?

By: james

james — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:36:34 +0000

POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON SERIES EACH HAS MORE THAN 100 FLOORS AND WAS MADE YEARS AGO!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:35:07 +0000

In reply to Mimi. Yes. YES. Give us back the Poring island with the Ghostring teleporting after two hits, where you then look for it for 30 minutes not knowing that someone already killed it (and probably also got the card). Please give me RO back. What a game.

By: Testedrage

Testedrage — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:31:57 +0000

In reply to Zz. There is an mmorpg version actually. Sao:Integral factor

By: Sultan

Sultan — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:36:15 +0000

The roblox Sword art online was soo good, ist like better than it? I would like to try it

By: Jaycen

Jaycen — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:09:55 +0000

I mean… I would totally wait 10 years for a whole recreation of Aincrad in it’s entirety but I can respect the more focused scope.

By: Kyharra

Kyharra — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:41:15 +0000

In reply to Oliver sylvarus. I mean better getting that now than waiting an extra 10 years to get everything lmao.. and who knows maybe they'll release the rest for free over time

By: Animewatcher247

Animewatcher247 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:50:07 +0000

I say they need to start now and get to work on a 10 floor dlc!

By: Animewatcher247

Animewatcher247 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:43:51 +0000

I agree with so many others. SAO, and so many other animes would make great RPGs that would rival Skyrim. If devs would be willing to put the time in..

By: Mad

Mad — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:30:26 +0000

And yet is singleplayer….

By: Mimi

Mimi — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:58:16 +0000

If they really made this 100 floors and ecery floor is big enough that it can have like 5-6 towns or cities this game will gonna be the next big thing…….
But they need to make sure levelling up is hard AF it’s 100 floor after all… And no bullshit VIP players that increase their exp make it like OG old Ragnarok online so we can trade items for real money……

By: Autumn

Autumn — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:51:18 +0000

In reply to Zz.

“It would take ten years to make”
So take the ten years? I find it so odd that this excuse comes up when games like Silksong and FF7R took that long and people LOVED it. Like if it was a new IP i would get it but they’ve made SAO games since like 2010 they know that it’ll sell, why not just put in that dev time?

By: Zz

Zz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:42:19 +0000

Do the developers know that they don’t have to release all of the 100 floors right away? And there should have been already an mmorpg anime style of this series ages ago

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:10:01 +0000

4 years for 2 floors and 10 for 100? Not likely