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flannan said:

You might want to see SAO season 2 first arc. It's set in Gun Gale Online VRMMO, which is the setting for this anime.
But you don't really need to do so. Let me explain all you need to know in a few words:
1) GGO is a VRMMO, a game that fully immerses your senses in a virtual world. They're awesome, but the first games had issues that killed quite a number of people for real. By the time this story is set, these issues should have been worked out.
2) GGO has a post-apocalyptic setting, with ruins, future-tech devices like lasers and force fields, monsters and stuff. Kind of like Fallout, but with humans returning in spaceships instead of crawling out of vaults. The details don't matter - people are just here to shoot a lot.
3) GGO is a MMORPG - it has stats, levels, builds, dungeons, rare drops, farming rare drops in dungeons, player killing and things like that.
4) GGO has tournaments, where people can show off their builds, personal ability and player killing. This anime is all about one such tournament, "Squad Jam".
5) GGO has game money to real money conversion, kind of like Eve Online, which potentially allows people to make money playing it. This can lead to more player skill and more drama than in an ordinary MMORPG.
It also means GGO the game is a dubious place not unlike an online casino, but most players don't really care.