Metal Gear Survive was never going to have it easy -- that much has been clear since the moment it was revealed. But now that the game is actually out, players have been keen to express their disgust with one aspect of the release in particular.
We are, of course, talking about the fact that you need to cough up real world money if you want to create more than one character at a time. To unlock an extra slot, you need to spend 1000 SV coins, these coins being the game's premium currency. 1150 SV coins cost $10/£8 on the PlayStation Store.
Now, while we imagine most players will be more than happy with a single character, this undoubtedly sets a potentially dangerous precedent. Paying $10/£8 so that you can start the game over on a separate save slot as a new character? Yeah, it's no wonder people are a bit annoyed.
What do you make of this? Air your concerns in the comments section below.
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You would think that Konami wants to garner plenty of goodwill after the entire Kojami debacle, especially for a Metal Gear game that seems to play unlike any of the previous games...
Konami never disappoints.
No thanks. To the game, or the unlock.
Why?
They really have thought up new and novel ways to put in microtransactions.
Pay for the ability to save your character.
Good grief, what next? Pay extra if you even think about the game? This seems excessive.
Its all in the name of player choice. Literally if you dont pay you cant choose.
It like Konami and the Jimquisition are in cahoots. Never-ending content!
I look forward to paying to get a menu screen next.
Laughable
This is greedy and bad business. RPGs are completely opposite and 1 reason to enjoy.
Having gamed for some 35 years plus, i have just a couple of words to the industry for the constant crap being pushed out to players....
F*** OFF
Reasonable.
Sad trombone sound
And suddenly, in the corporate world of video game publishers, the bar slipped even lower 😧
The La Li Lu Le Lo are behind this
Welp. Shoulda saw this coming. I was thinking about potentially looking at this game, but not now. I'm long past tired of garbage like this.
Death Stranding can't come soon enough.
If they're being this greedy over save slots, then it's fairly safe to assume that they've cut corners or been exploitative elsewhere with the game. No way I'd consider getting this game now.
If I remember correctly, they did the exact same thing with Metal Gear Online that was packaged with Metal Gear Solid 4.
So, I'm not surprised Konami is pulling this trick again.
Let's see how people defending Konami on another article will defend this practice.
Well, of course this is ridiculous and comes as a shock to us console gamers. BUT, I've read that other always online, online mode only games have been doing this for years. Something to do with the characters being saved on konami's servers and therefore it's a way for them to limit the amount of space needed. (some people are ridic with their save files, creating new ones at basically every checkpoint)
I'm not defending this at all, and I'd never buy a game like this, I'm just shedding some light on the situation. Konami didn't invent this as a new form of MTX. but they still totally suck.
I love being in the 6% who don't buy DLC.
Seriously though, this is outrageous. F*** you, Konami.
@Yowza But only 1 come on even mmorpg has more.
I think whoever decided to charge for an extra character save slot, either Konami or the developer, they are taking the biscuit. One day people are just going to end up saying enough is enough, look at the whole fiasco with BF2 that made EA respond to the backlash. It seems developers and publishers are trying their luck to see how far they can take the mick with microtransactions before they get serverly criticised by gamers and the press.
A simple thing such as creating another character save slot should be built in to the game for free as standard.
What?! This is ridiculous. This could be the next Zelda, inFamous, is Uncharted game and I would boycott on this. I think adding to trophy data with a used or borrowed game would be too much with this kind of a microtransaction. Someone needs to get fired ASAP. No else better try this again. This is also different than a FTP MMORPG doing this.
Angry Joe's video on YouTube was FUNNY about this What a JOKE, and please GOD no one buy this sort of stuff :-/ This and Microsoft's(failed, thank God. Well for now) attempt at DRM'in everyone is what could Kill gaming in the future :-/
sigh
and capcom wants 10 EUR to change your name in sf v...
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