Log Horizon

[KrayZ33]

What's the group? Isn't it something they just decided verbally?

I don't think so, that would be rather absurd.
given the fact how minorin manages the status of each player

No, you can't.

but they are doing it. ~ every second episode

I've been advocating for a while a theory where the players aren't that different from the NPCs, or rather the NPCs not so different from the players.

its weird for NPCs to know "game rules" like a cooldown or level-up system... or even a health bar, especially since they don't know anything about adventurers and they are an enigma to them
the first ~12 episodes made sure of that.