Wasn't trying to insist that its a game, I do believe its more than that, but I was just trying to explain it in the way its been mostly portrayed so far. We haven't been given an explanation yet as to what Eternum really is beyond "just a game". Sure the MC's party has seen shit to say otherwise, but we still don't know whats really going on besides they thought they were just playing a game originally. I do believe technology plays a bigger role than what others have said though. Right now we have technology mixed with magic. Nova's hacks still work even if the results are difficult and limited in their use. Keep in mind she doesn't have the inside knowledge that say an investor or business partner to Ulysses might have like that guy who showed us the NPC control device. Also, even Caly speaks of a "world of machines" and a means of using "artifacts of metal and light" when she first heard of hacking thinking it was magic.
My point with Caly, was that she still has her memories/personality of being real which was a result of being "incomplete" as the MC says when she's released. I think they were trying to change/control her with the box artifact, whether you want to think of that as via technology or magic. I think its both, technology enabling magic that the user doesn't have the capacity to use on their own. As for things not matching what one would expect from an MMO type game, well the game's tagline is "more real than real". Its passed off to the general public by the devs as just a game that has incredible immersion and realism, so much so that you might not question it was a game. If general players questioned the lack of such standard things you mentioned, then no one would believe its just a game. We know better because we're seeing things from the MC's perspective. The average player wouldn't even think about it and would just play.
Your last remark about "remotely hack a secure casino computer in record time to feed it false info." is exactly what I would call modifying variables "in-game". I don't recall it ever being mentioned it was remote, she was right there staring at the computer when it happened. Every other hack we've seen Nova do has been done when outside the game except for that one.
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