Plot holes in this one got to the size of a small moon or a giant space station.
To name a couple:
1. You already have "Cardinal"-class AI in every VRMMOO everywhere in the Net, but somehow you spend billions to reinvent a bicycle. Cardinal-clone with a slight setting adjustment would be perfectly capable of operating a drone and blowing people up. Just list enemy combatants as factors preventing achieving desired level of stability, and you can enjoy Skynet-Online.
2. You have a special super-duper-world with super-duper-interfaces with special protocols, but somehow bad guys are able to summon in the game a bunch of losers from around the world, because every loser in just one-two hours can build a copy of your super-duper-interface from sticks, rocks and bodily fluids.
was it really that hard to hire an actual technical consultant?