User blog comment:Grimraven/Players or Suspected Players in the New World./@comment-27023992-20151002224552/@comment-5480911-20151006171836

That is just a theory..there is no evidance that all players were transported into the new world at the same time when the game shut down and appeared in different timelines.

it is just as well they might have been transported at different times during the course of the game. the only thing we do know is that Ainz was transported there when the game was suppose to shut down...but there is no evidance that all players who were logged in at the time were transported as well but in different time....it still could be possible..but so far it is just speculation.