We've<em>barely</em>gotten started though.  If we restarted after Kayaba's announcement we wouldn't have to replay the stuff that takes place before it (and I kind of want to play out the aftermath of Kayaba's announcement -for me it's not all about action scenes).<br/><br/>Also, the characters whose players dropped out make continuing the current story kind of awkward.  One of the characters that is dropping out is Sara's best friend from university, while the other (probable) is a newbie Sessha's big sister type character took under her wing.  Sara and Annelotte (Sessha's character) would take it pretty hard if those two were killed off.