Metal Gear Online Scene Expansion Impressions.

[bork]

This came out today.  I bought the three-expansion pack deal they had running last week, and decided to give MGO another try.

I turned the PS3 on, waited to boot up, selected my profile, went to the game, and ran it.  After a bit, MGS4 comes up, and I had to go to "Metal Gear Online" and wait some more for that to boot up.  And hey, what's this?  A patch needs to be downloaded to play the game!  Okay, let's go with "download from server."  Shouldn't be long, let's get into some MGO, yeah! 

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[close]

All right, fucking finally.  A couple of hours have passed, and it's done.  Oh shit, it's PS3, I have to wait for it to install now.

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Done.  Let me get online and play!  Hmm, not too many people playing; there's about 300 people total.  I'm a beginner, so I better go with auto-matchmaking to find people at the same level.  Shouldn't take long.

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10 minutes go by, and it finally starts the big match...with four players.   

For what it's worth, I enjoyed what I got to play.  There's some nice maps in there, plus fan-servicey stuff like BGMs from various Konami games, including Metal Gear Ac!d 1 and 2, ZOE, and even Snatcher and Policenauts!  The game play seems a bit better than when I first played it too, but damn is there a ton of waiting and too few people online.  I hope it's better in the evenings.  If anything, I had more fun with this than Killzone 2!

[Rman]

Man, that whole Konami ID bs really turned me off to the original game.

[bork]

Man, that whole Konami ID bs really turned me off to the original game.

Oh, the Konami ID.  Yes, the "excellent" ID system.  Let me tell you about what I went through last week:

For what was either because of my former address, or more likely because of the MGO beta last year, my Konami ID always logged me into the Japanese Konami website.  This is a problem when trying to buy content with a U.S. credit card.  It seemed that all I could do was to delete this account and start over, which was fine since I hadn't purchased anything on it anyway.  So I do this, and it tells me that doing so will erase everything and free up my e-mail address.  It doesn't.  I have to make a new g-mail account just to make another Konami ID.  A minor inconvenience; it's fine.  A new account is made, and WAIT.  You can't buy stuff through your computer, you have to be logged into the game first and then do it through the PS3 browser.  WHY?  (Apparently you can do it from a PC after you've logged in through the game.  How...convenient...?)  I do the more-tedious process of entering the information needed with the PS3 controller in the game, make a new ID, and buy the pack.  It actually gives me a "cannot load this page" message after the sale goes through, which made me hit the roof, but it worked on the third try and it didn't charge me multiple times. 

Time to play, right?  WRONG.  The character I had stored on the server was tied to the old Konami ID.  Okay fine, deleted.  I'll make a new one, right?  WRONG.  You only get ONE FREE SLOT in MGO.  Deleting it doesn't free it up; when it's gone, it's GONE.  So I have to go online and buy ANOTHER SLOT FOR $6.99.  If I hadn't already bought the expansion packs, I would have just quit at this point.  Slot bought, and NOW I can finally play, after hours and hours of waiting. 

I see with the latest patch, you can finally purchase content (albeit in-game through the PS3 browser) using your PSN account, but when I tried to look at this, it wouldn't load the page.   

[Sho Nuff]

For every extra dumb step you have to take, half the potential user base says "Screw it" and goes to play something else

[Lafiel]

LOL i loved MGO. (team stealth = awesomeness), but i stopped playing it because of konamis shitty online service.

[CHOW CHOW]

What a complete and utter disaster the ID thing was.  Konami could have had a solid multi-player game with a sizable and loyal community if it would have just got rid of that shit, but they were too stubborn and fucking jappafaggy to change their ways.